2010
Mimir Chamber Music Festival
“It’ll be a hard freeze in a Dallas July before you will hear a finer performance of a Beethoven string quartet than the one presented at the Mimir Chamber Music Festival.”
The exciting Mimir Chamber Music Festival is held on the campus of TCU, Fort Worth, Texas. All concerts take place in the attractive and intimate PepsiCo Recital Hall in the Walsh Center for the Performing Arts. The Young Artists Concerts will feature selections from Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Mozart, Ravel, Schubert, and Shostakovich.
General admission for concerts is $25. Senior citizens (must be 65 plus), TCU faculty/staff and student tickets are $15.
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CONCERT 1 (July 8, 7:30 p.m.) Program Notes
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 49 No. 1 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Performed by: Nathan Cole and Stephen Rose, violins Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 1 Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Performed by: Curt Thompson and Stephen Rose, violins Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
Variations on a Bavarian Folksong (“Dirndl is haub auf mi”) Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Performed by: Stephen Rose, violin Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Performed by: Stephen Rose and Nathan Cole, violins Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
Young Artist Master Class (July 9, 10:30am-noon) PepsiCo Recital Hall, admission $5/person at the door
Young Artist Master Class (July 10, 10:30am-noon) PepsiCo Recital Hall, admission $5/person at the door
CONCERT 2 (July 10, 7:30 p.m.) Program Notes
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18 No. 5 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Performed by: Curt Thompson and Stephen Rose, violins Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1, “Ghost” Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Performed by: Nathan Cole, violin Brant Taylor, cello John Novacek, piano
String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Performed by: Stephen Rose and Nathan Cole, violins Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
CONCERT 3 (July 11, 3:00 p.m.) Program Notes [This concert will be preceded at 2:20 p.m. by an informal conversation with Mimir Artists]
String Quartet No. 1 (unfinished) Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Performed by: Nathan Cole and Stephen Rose, violins Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
Concertino for Two Pianos, Op. 94 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Performed by: Alessio Bax and John Novacek, pianos
String Quartet No. 1, “Metamorphoses Nocturnes” Györgi Ligeti (1923-2006) Performed by: Stephen Rose and Curt Thompson, violins Kirsten Docter, viola Brant Taylor, cello
Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 90, “Dumky” Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) Performed by: Nathan Cole, violin Brant Taylor, cello John Novacek, piano
Young Artist Informal Preview Concert (July 11, 6:30 p.m.) PepsiCo Recital Hall, free admission
Young Artist Master Class: PepsiCo Recital Hall (strings) or Ed Landreth Auditorium (piano) (July 12, 10:30am-noon) PepsiCo Recital Hall, admission $5/person at the door
Young Artists’ Concert: St Mary of the Assumption Church (July 12, 7:30 p.m.) 509 West Magnolia Avenue Fort Worth, TX 76104-4698 (817) 923-1911 Free admission
CONCERT 4 (July 13, 7:30 p.m.) Program Notes
Quartet for the End of Time Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) *be sure to read program notes prior to concert Performed by: Nathan Cole, violin Victoria Luperi, clarinet Brant Taylor, cello Alessio Bax, piano
String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 No. 3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Performed by: Erin Keefe and Curt Thompson, violins Che-Yen Chen and Kirsten Docter, violas Karen Basrak, cello
Young Artists’ Concert (July 15, 7:30 p.m.) PepsiCo Recital Hall, free admission
CONCERT 5 (July 16, 7:30 p.m.) Program Notes
Piano Trio in G Major “Gypsy,” Hob. XV:25 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Performed by: Erin Keefe, violin Karen Basrak, cello Lucille Chung, piano
String Quartet in E minor, “From my Life” Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) Performed by: Curt Thompson and Erin Keefe, violins Che-Yen Chen, viola Karen Basrak, cello
Suite for 2 violins, cello, and piano left hand, Op. 23 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1824-1884) Performed by: Erin Keefe and Curt Thompson, violins Karen Basrak, cello Alessio Bax, piano
Granbury Mimir Concert (July 17, 7:00pm) Program Notes First United Methodist Church of Granbury 301 Loop 567 Granbury, TX 76048 817-573-5573 http://www.fumcgranbury.org/pages/about-directions
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