Living in Delaware, I find myself craving
classical music. The Delaware Chamber Music Festival (DCMF) has been
satisfying the community's cravings for 27 years and is a staple of the local
classical musical diet. Even on a beautiful Father's Day afternoon, the concert
hall at The Music School of Delaware was nearly full. The quartet: Barbara
Govatos, violin, Hirono Oka, violin, Burchard Tang, viola and Clancy Newman,
cello.
Sylvia Glickman's Carved in Courage, arranged for
string quartet by Tony Finno, is part of a trilogy Glickman dedicated to the
holocaust. Barbara Govatos, DCMF musical director,
explained the significance of the work and its references to the Danish
resistance movement during WWII. The movements---Premonitions,
Preparations-Frøde Jacobsen-Resistence Leader, Krystalgade Synagogue and Dr.
Køster of Bispebjerg Hospital, Rescue by the Sea-Jens Møller, fisherman/rescuer
and The Afterward---each conveyed an important emotional and musical message,
with the Danish National Anthem triumphantly finding its way in at the very end.
Lyrical and full of passion, Glickman's work was beautifully
played. My grandfather, who had been part of the Danish resistance
movement, was captured, imprisoned and tortured by the Nazis. I
know he would have been deeply moved by this tribute.
As guest artist, pianist Julie Nishimura performed
in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Trio in B flat major, K. 502.
Nishimura's beautiful playing was balanced perfectly with the lovely sounds
produced by violinist Barbara Govatos and cellist Clancy Newman. Mozart
always delights with his usually light, joyous themes and brief departures to
more pensive territory.
Ending the program was Claude Debussy's String
Quartet in G minor. Though Debussy was born 150 years ago, his quartet seems to structurally, harmonically and melodically belong to a later era. The players exploited every dynamic and nuance of Debussy's often
brooding music.
Be sure to catch The Delaware Chamber Music
Festival's last concerts of the season on June 22, 2012 at 7:30 pm and June 24, 2012 at 3:00 pm, also at The
Music School of Delaware.
http://www.dcmf.org/
Hi - Angie here from the Delaware Chamber Music Festival. Please note that our last concert is June 24th - so we have two more remaining!
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