By Jacob Stockinger
The Oakwood Chamber Players (below) have long been known for programming new music as well as neglected old music or neglected composers that they perform with top-quality music-making – often with a unifying theme to the programs.
Just look at the details of the following announcement of the new season:
The Oakwood Chamber Players are excited to announce their 2016-2017 concert series, “Perspective.”
Full of interesting viewpoints on life and relationships, the blended use of diverse musical styles with film and theater will help concertgoers see things from another’s point of view.
All concerts will be held in the auditorium (below) at Oakwood’s Center for Arts and Education, 6002 Mineral Point Road, on the far west side of Madison.
Tickets can be purchased at the door: $20 for general admission, $15 for seniors, and $5 for students. More information can be found at www.oakwoodchamberplayers.com
LOOKING ACROSS THE TABLE: CAN WE FIND COMMON GROUND?
Saturday, September 10, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, September 11, at 2 p.m.
Paul Schoenfield (below) – Café Music for piano trio
Michael Colina – Stairway to Midnight Café for mixed instruments
Jean Françaix – Dixtuor for woodwind quintet and string quintet
Edward Elgar – Elegy for string quintet
LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD: CAN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE CHANGE US?
Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Frank Bridge (below) – Sir Roger de Coverly Christmas Dance for strings
Jon Deak – “Passion of Scrooge” for large mixed ensemble with baritone voice
LOOKING WITHIN: CAN WE SEE WITHIN OURSELVES THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE?
Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, January 22, 2017 at 2 p.m.
Byron Adams (below) – Serenade (Homage de Husa) for large mixed ensemble
Arnold Schoenberg – Notturno (Nocturne) for strings and harp (in the YouTube video at the bottom)
Francis Poulenc – Sextet for woodwind quintet and piano
Maurice Ravel/David Bruce – Kaddish for large mixed ensemble
LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS: CAN WE SPEAK WHEN THERE ARE NO WORDS?
Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 2 p.m.
Gail Kubik – Gerald McBoing Boing for large mixed ensemble, percussion and narrator
Paul Bowles (below) – Music for a Farce (Movie – The Fireman) for clarinet, trumpet, piano and percussion
Dan Visconti – Low Country Haze with film for large mixed ensemble
Gaetano Donizetti – Trio for flute, bassoon and piano
LOOKING CLOSELY AT THE SCORE: CAN WE GET INSIDE THE MINDS OF THE COMPOSERS?
Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 2 p.m.
Joan Trimble (below) – Phantasy Trio for piano trio
Vincent d’Indy – Chanson et Danses (Song and Dances) for winds
Luise Adolpha Le Beau – Piano Trio
Joachim Raff – Sinfonietta for double woodwind quintet
The Oakwood Chamber Players is a professional music ensemble proudly supported by Oakwood Lutheran Senior Ministries and the Oakwood Foundation.
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Pingback by Classical music: The Oakwood Chamber Players open their new season this Saturday night and Sunday afternoon | The Well-Tempered Ear — September 6, 2016 @ 12:01 am
Bowles was in fact quite an accomplished composer — I know of him through his solo piano music, which is unfailingly elegant and attractive. Like a lot of American composers in the 30s and 40s, the influence of French Neo-classicism is clearly apparent, albeit Americanized in very healthy and vigorous ways. He was part of what I call the “golden age” of American Classical music — 1930 – 50 or so — and none of them, apart from Copland and Barber, are ever played anymore (sigh!).
Comment by Tim Adrianson — August 31, 2016 @ 8:08 am
Thanks for that info, Tim. I agree with you that far too few of the American composers from that era are performed.
One still hears, occasionally, music from Howard Hanson, referred to as the Dean of American music; and also, from Alan Hovhaness (who wrote marvelous pieces all the way up til the end of the century, pretty much; WPR even played a piece of his yesterday). There is lots of neglected music out there that is worthwhile; that’s why this kind of programming is encouraging.
I found a YouTube performance of the piece by Paul Schoenfield yesterday and that too is really fascinating music.
Comment by fflambeau — August 31, 2016 @ 9:10 pm
Fascinating and innovative programming.
I know Paul Bowles as a writer but not as a musician so that piece by him might be specially interesting.
Comment by fflambeau — August 31, 2016 @ 1:57 am