Welcome to LLC’s “Concerts & Conversations,”   Autumn 2019 

●   Red asterisks *** indicate opportunities for you to lead discussions & presentations. For more information about these opportunities: click here   

●   For a downloadable version of this syllabus, click here.

●  In the scheule below,  Blue text indicates concert dates and programs.

Fall 2019 Syllabus: LLC Concerts and Conversations

Class #1, Monday September 9: 

• Welcome to the class – Penney
  • Introduction to the course syllabus and course website – Linda
  • Discussion theme: The concerto; intro to Barber’s Violin Concerto – Linda

 

Class #2, Monday September 16: 

• RI Programming Strategies and Fall Preview:
  • Guest Speaker: David Gasper, Artistic Manager of the RI Phil
• Preview Part I: RI Phil September 28 Concert
  • Brief intro: Sergei Rachmaninoff – Class volunteer - Robert Pearlman
  • Preview of  Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto #3 – Linda
  • Brief intro to Yefim Bronfman – Lilian Hayes

Class #3, Monday September 23: 

• Preview Part II: RI Phil September 28 Concert:
  • Intro to Bramwell Tovey, the conductor and the composer – Fredda Sharfstein
  • Intro to Bela Bartok – Class volunteer - Eileen Horowitz
  • Guest speaker: Jane Murray, English Horn, RI Philharmonic. Prof. URI, oboe and English horn oboe.
  • Preview: Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra - Linda

Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 8 PM: Concert

RI Philharmonic Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano

• Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto #3
• Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra

No Class: Monday September 30: Rosh Ha Shanah

 

Class #4, Monday October 7: 

• Post-Concert Conversation – Bonnie
• Preview: RI Phil October 19^th Concert
  • Intro to Gustav Holst  – Susan Moubayed
  • Preview of Holst’s The Planets – Linda

Monday October 14: No Class - Columbus Day.

 

Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 8 PM: Concert

RI Philharmonic Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey, conductor
James Ehnes, violin

·      Tovey, Urban Runway

·      Barber, Violin Concerto 

·      Holst, The Planets

 

 Class #5, Monday October 21: 

• Post-Concert Conversation –  Linda
• Preview Part I: RI Chamber Music November 14^th Concert
  • Guest: Board Members from the RI Chamber Music Concerts: Penny Backman, Sheryl Cohen, and Heidi Smith, who is also Chair, RICMC Program Committee.
  • Intro to Grazyna Bacewicz – Arleen Strom
  •  Preview of Bacewicz String Quartet #4   – Linda

Class #6, Monday October 28: 

• Preview Part II: RI Chamber Music November 14^th Concert
  • Intro to Franz Joseph Haydn - Bonnie
  • Preview: Haydn String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No 1 - Linda
  • Preview: Schumann String Quartet #41.3 – Linda
• Preview Part I: RI Phil November 16^th Concert:
  • Intro: Tchaikovsky – Sheryl Mason
  • Preview: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #2 - class discussion    
  • Intro: Anne Marie McDermott, pianist – Janice Raftery

 

Class #7, Monday November 4: 

• Preview Part II: RI Phil November 16^th Concert:
  • Intro: Dmitri Shostakovich – Nancy Maddocks
  • Preview: Shostakovich Symphony #10; the enigmas and the secret codes – Linda
  • Guest speaker: Wendy Klein, flutist, Prof., Berklee College of Music: 

         Topic: Music, the Brain, and Ways of Listening

      ◦ Intro:  William Grant Still - Duncan Smith

Monday November 11: No Class  -  Veteran’s Day

 

Thursday November 14, 2019: Chamber Concert

The Vision Quartet

·      Haydn String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No 1

·      Grazyna Bacewicz String Quartet No 4.

·      Schumann, String Quartet in A Major, Op.41, No 3.

Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 8 PM: Orchestra Concert

RI Philharmonic Orchestra

Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Anne Marie McDermott, piano

• WG Still:  In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy 
• Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto #2
• Shostakovich, Symphony #10

Class #8, Monday November 18: 

• Post-Concert Conversations:
  • RI Philharmonic concert - Patricia Fisher 
  • RI Chamber concert -  *** Volunteer needed 
• Preview Part I: RI Phil December Concert: Handel’s Messiah
  • Intro to Handel: Life and Times  - Duncan Smith
  • Intro to Oratorios – *** class volunteer
  • Intro to the Providence Singers – Martha Nielsen

No Class: Monday November 25 – Thanksgiving Break

 

Class #9, Monday December 2: 

• Preview Part II: RI Phil December Concert: Messiah
  • Intro to the soloistss for Dec. 14th performance of Messiah - Judy Bitting, Lynda Tacoudes
  • Intro to Handel’s Messiah: Guest Michael Galib, Assistant Conductor, Providence Singers

Class #10, Monday December 9: 

• Winter RI Phil concert previews – Linda
• Class Party

Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 8 PM: Orchestra Concert

RI Philharmonic Orchestra and the The Providence Singers

Christine Noel, conductor

·      Handel’s Messiah