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Chelsea Music Festival: Vehicles of Time: Cage, Van & A Firebird (Site)
Saturday June 17, 2017, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$20 – $356:00— Private Art Exhibition Opening
6:30— Musical Performance and Festival Talks II | Panel Discussion on Measuring Time
ART EXHIBITION
Artwork by Bill Beirne, Alexander Hahn, Harry Newman, Regula Rüegg, Silvelin von Scanzoni, and Ursula Schneider are featured in Deutsches Haus Arts and Friends: Measuring Time exhibition. Curated in conversation with this year’s Festival theme, the art explores various angles of “measuring time” including rhythm, memory, decay, waiting and aging.
FESTIVAL TALKS II
Panel with Regula Rüegg, curator of the “Measuring Time” art exhibit, Beethoven scholar Jan Caeyers and Festival musicians exploring how time and story are transported through music. Led by Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND PANEL DISCUSSION
This evening’s event will include a panel and performance of Beethoven’s beloved Spring Sonata, John Cage’s Four for string quartet and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite arranged for piano trio by the great pianist Stephen Prutsman. Artistic Directors Ken-David & Melinda Lee Masur will lead a panel to include visual artists from the Measuring Time exhibit, Festival Lecturer Jan Caeyers and Festival musicians exploring how time and story are transported through music.
PROGRAM
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24
Cage Four
Stravinsky/Prustman Firebird Suite for piano trio
Featuring
Ensemble | The Lee Trio
Violin | Fanny Clamagirand, Lisa Lee, Filip Pogády
Viola | Jesus Rodolfo Rodriguez
Cello | Angela Lee, Caleb van der Swaagh
Piano | Peter Fancovic, Melinda Lee Masur
RECEPTION: Post Event
OPEN SEATING