Los Angeles
The Music Guild’s 69th Season opens with the Aspen String Trio on October 21, 2013. The ensemble will feature Schubert, Strauss and Dohnanyi, and will be joined by pianist Micah Yui for Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor. Again this year, the Westside concerts will be Mondays at University Synagogue in Brentwood and the South Bay concerts will be on Tuesdays at CSULB’s Daniel recital Hall. The Valley Venue is moving to North Hollywood and will be presented on Wednesday’s at Adat Ari El on Burbank Boulevard.
Feature ensembles in the 2013-14 season include Piano Trio Voce, the California
String Quartet who will be joined by cellist Ronald Leonard, the Avalon
String Quartet, the Borromeo String Quartet and the Henschel String Quartet.
Complete programs are available on line at TheMusicGuild.org, or by calling 310.558.3500.
The Music Guild’s Summer Festival continues through the end of August at University Synagogue in Brentwood.
And if youn
are moving or downsizing your home and have a piano that you no longer
use, The Music Guild will find a home in a school or a VA facility, and
you will get a tax deduction. Just callus or e-mail concerts@TheMusicGuild.org.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
VERDI REQUIEM
The Edinburgh International Festival's 2013 concert series at Usher Hall will conclude on Sat., August 31 at 8 pm with an epic performance of the VERDI REQUIEM. Donald Runnicles will conduct the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and such noteworthy singers as Erin Wall, Luciana D'Intino, Aleksandra Antonenko and Eric Owens, plus the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.
From music of hushed restraint and transcendent hope through to the thunder-clap drums that depict the day of judgement in the terrifying Dies Irae, the Requiem is a magnificent work full of gigantic grandeur and dramatic contrasts.
The concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date.