Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents The Pacifica Quartet with John Bruce Yeh on November 13

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI, October 07, 2010

Artists/Date/Concert Location -
The Pacifica Quartet with John Bruce Yeh, Clarinet
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 8:00 PM

Seligman Performing Arts Center
Located on the campus of Detroit Country Day School
22305 West 13 Mile Road, Beverly Hills

- Repertoire -
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Schumann: String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 3
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

- Unique Features of this Concert/Story Line -
• The Pacifica Quartet has amassed a number of prestigious awards and honors in its 16-year history, the most recent being its appointment as quartet-in-residence at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the position held for 43 years by the Guarneri Quartet. In 2009 the Quartet was named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America and received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.
• John Bruce Yeh joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1977, appointed solo bass clarinet of the Orchestra at the age of nineteen by Sir Georg Solti. Two years later, he was named assistant principal and solo E-flat clarinet. He currently serves as acting principal clarinet.
• John Bruce Yeh is director of Chicago Pro Musica which received the Grammy Award in 1986 for Best New Classical Artist. A prizewinner at both the 1982 Munich International Music Competition and the 1985 Naumburg Clarinet Competition in New York, Mr. Yeh continues to appear as soloist with orchestras around the globe and has made more than a dozen solo and chamber music recordings.
• Pre-Concert Dinner: Bacco Ristorante, with special reduced dinner price for CMSD ticket-holders, 6:00 - 7:15 PM

- Special Features of Seligman Performing Arts Center -
• Free Parking
• Easy Accessibility
• Intimate Chamber Music Venue (seats 724)
• Excellent acoustics, Kirkegaard Associates, acoustician

- Special Offering by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit -
• Society Cafe open before the concerts and during intermission with support from Sweet Lorraine's and Cadillac Coffee

- Upcoming Concerts: Chamber Music Society of Detroit 2010-2011 Season -
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Simone Dinnerstein, Piano
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Pre-Concert Talk with Steven Rings, 6:45 - 7:30 PM

Saturday, January 8, 2011
Emerson String Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet in C major, K. 465, Dissonance
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 44, No. 3

Saturday, February 5, 2011
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano
All-Liszt Program
Consolations
Les Jeux d'Eaux à la Villa d'Este
Legendes
Meine Freuden (after Chopin, Chants polonais no. 5 )
Ballade No. 2 in B minor
Isoldens Liebestod, from "Tristan und Isolde" (after Wagner)
Tarantella from "Venezia e Napoli"

Saturday, February 12, 2011
Orion Quartet and Windscape
Bach: The Art of Fugue (arranged for string quartet and wind quintet
by Samuel Baron)

Saturday, March 26, 2011
Zuill Bailey, Cello
Piers Lane, Piano
Mendelssohn: Concert Variations
Schumann: Fantasiestücke
Roberto Sierra: Suite de canciones y danzas
Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19
Pre-Concert Talk with Zuill Bailey, 6:45 - 7:30 PM

Saturday, April 2, 2011
Nash Ensemble of London
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478
Bax: Oboe Quintet
Britten: Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and String Trio, Op. 2
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
Pre-Concert Talk with Steven Rings, 6:45 - 7:30 PM

Saturday, April 16, 2011
Jorge Federico Osorio, Piano
Beethoven: Variations in F major, Op. 34
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Granados: Spanish Dances, Nos. 1, 2 & 5
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Saturday, May 21, 2011
Morgenstern Trio
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award Concert
Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101
Pre-Concert Talk with Steven Rings, 6:45 - 7:30 PM

- Ticket Prices -
• Single tickets to all concerts: $43 - $75; students $25.

- Ticket Purchase Information -
• By phone: Chamber Music Society of Detroit Ticket Service: 248-855-6070
• Online: http://www.ComeHearCMSD.org

HOUR Detroit and dbusiness are the media sponsors for the 2010-2011 season.

For further information about the 2010-2011 concert season, please visit the Chamber Music Society of Detroit web site at http://www.ComeHearCMSD.org.

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