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Sound Beams
Sponsored by Marguerite Munson Lentz & David Lentz

Gloria Chien, piano
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Paul Neubauer, viola
Edward Arron, cello
Third Coast Percussion

Sound Beams’ program invites you to experience how composers use structure to create beauty and expression. Debussy’s Violin Sonata offers a heartfelt conversation between violin and piano. Reich’s Music for Pieces of Woodtransforms simple rhythms into something mesmerizing and intricate. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for string trio, reimagines a single theme in thirty different ways—each one a fresh perspective on a familiar idea.

Program

Claude Debussy: Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano, L. 140
(1862-1918)

Allegro vivo
Intermède: Fantasque et léger
Finale: Très animé

Josefowicz, Chien

Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood
(b. 1936)

Third Coast Percussion

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky: Goldberg Variations, BMV 988
(1685-1750)
Aria and Variations

Frautschi, Neubauer, Arron

Program Notes

A tension: truss means two things, torn by competing forces.

The architectural definition has, from the seventeenth century on, signaled a form of beaming, most often wooden, used to brace bridges or buildings. The classic truss is five-beamed, a square bisected into triangles. Triangles are simple but eminently sturdy; you can understand the allure. Read more…

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Featured Artists

Edward Arron

Edward Arron

Cello

Gloria Chien

Gloria Chien

Piano

Jennifer Frautschi

Jennifer Frautschi

Violin

Leila Josefowicz

Leila Josefowicz

Violin

Paul Neubauer

Viola

Third Coast Percussion

Ensemble