The Joy of Youth
Friday, November 7 @7:30 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church
9 Ayer Road, Harvard
Pre-concert talk @7 PM
Sunday, November 9 @4 PM
Jeanne Y. Curtis Hall at Assumption University
500 Salisbury Street, Worcester
Pre-concert talk @3:30 PM
Youthful joy and sweetness shine through music written when these composers were still young. The ephemeral nature of youth was heightened for Boulanger, who composed D’un matin de printemps on her deathbed at age twenty-four, and Mozart, who died less than ten years after completing the “Spring” Piano Trio. Brahms wrote the Piano Quartet early in his career, while his course was still being charted.
Program
Lili Boulanger
D’un matins de printemps ♦ listen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet K387 G major ♦ listen
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26 ♦ listen
With guest
Tracy Kraus, flute
Guest Artist
“Supple and riveting…. elegant and adroit playing…dazzling” (Worcester Telegram) eloquently describes the playing of Tracy Kraus. She has performed throughout Europe and the United States and participated in the Aspen and Tanglewood festivals. Her love of the Northern California coast led her to her current orchestral tenure with the Mendocino Music Festival. In 1982 Ms. Kraus founded the Abbot Chamber Players and quickly discovered her passion for the genre and organization management. Ms. Kraus is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Worcester Chamber Music Society and has led the group through a significant stage of growth and success.
Tracy is a graduate of Clark University and the Boston Conservatory and studied with flute masters Louis Moyse, Trevor Wye, Leone Buyse, and Geoffrey Gilbert.