“Jazz and Hollywood” with Wolfram Koessel at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, NYC

Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A: 7 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM

Tickets: $20 at the door (General Admission)
Students and Children: FREE

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Special Guest Artist: Wolfram Koessel, Cello

“Jazz and Hollywood”

This exciting program is comprised of works written in the early twentieth century during the beginnings of jazz and film music.  Claude Debussy’s final work, his Violin Sonata, and Igor Stravinsky’s Concertino both epitomize the influence jazz was having on the Parisian music scene, and Bartók’s virtuosic Contrasts was composed for the American clarinetist Benny Goodman. Erich Korngold is perhaps the most revered composer of film music in Hollywood’s Golden Age, and his sumptuous String Sextet will conclude the program.

Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Concertino for String Quartet (1920)

Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor (1917)

Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945)
Contrasts, Sz. 111 (1938)

Intermission

Erich Korngold (1897 – 1957)
String Sextet in D major, Op. 10 (1915)

Manhattan Chamber Players

Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin
Emily Daggett Smith, Violin
Luke Fleming, Viola
Vicki Powell, Viola
Andrea Casarrubios, Cello
Bixby Kennedy, Clarinet
Adam Golka, Piano
Euntaek Kim, Piano

With Special Guest Artist: Wolfram Koessel, Cello