October 21, 2024
Close Encounters with Music – Season finale!
L’amour toujours!
Sunday, June 8, 2025 4:00PM
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Great Barrington, MA
It’s all about love: A new work for clarinet trio by composer Seth Grosshandler that celebrates young love, courtship and serendipity of meeting one’s intended receives its inaugural performance. Signature love arias from favorite operas and Broadway sung by Metropolitan Opera soprano Danielle Talamantes and Kerry Wilkerson. Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock (“My sweetheart dwells so far from me, I long passionately to be with her over there) is a tour de force for clarinet and soprano. Resolved to retire, in 1891 Brahms encountered the clarinet playing of Richard Mühlfeld and was inspired by a fresh muse to compose once again. A scholar and close friend of Brahms praised the Clarinet Trio, writing.that “It is as though the instruments were in love with each other.” So concludes Season 33 of Close Encounters With Music – bookended by the immortal Brahms, by inspiration and friendship.
Danielle Talamantes, soprano
Kerry Wilkerson, bass-baritone
Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet
Yehuda Hanani, cello
Max Levinson, piano
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