City of Lakeway, TX
05/12/2023 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/12/2023 14:32
Masterpiece Concert Performance
Masterpiece Concert #3: Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 4 PM at the Lakeway Activity Center
FREE and open to the public!
The Lakeway Arts Committee production of the Sunday Afternoon Masterpiece Concert Series expands classical professionalism to the concert hall with "the most beautiful music ever heard". It is sponsored in part by The Pearce Family Foundation for the Arts and Social Progress. The founders are Andrew and Sari Pearce. They bring professional orchestra musicians to the stage from their wide range of connections with many other orchestras and musicians.
Meet and greet the musicians after their performance.
The program features violins, viola, cello and piano to perform Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, "Rosemunde" and Antonin Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A Major, Op 81.
Musicians include Violinists Sari Pearce and Sandy Yamamoto, Violist Nick Hammel, Cellist Andrew Pearce, and Pianist Colette Valentine. Please click on their links to learn more about the performers.
Join us in an afternoon of musical delight!
Musicians:
Violins: Sandy Yamamoto and Sari Pearce
Viola: Nick Hammel
Cello: Andrew Pearce
Piano: Colette Valentine
Repertoire:
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No.13 in A Minor, 'Rosamunde'
Anton Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op.81
The Austin Brassworks: Sunday, August 6, 2023 at 4 PM at the Lakeway Activity Center
FREE and open to the public!
The Austin Brassworks formed in 2018 to explore original works for brass quintet, including those by the Nineteenth Century composer, Victor Ewald, and more contemporary composers of quintet literature, such as John Cheetham and Michael. Over time, the group's repertoire has broadened to include high-quality transcriptions of music in a wide range of styles that were originally voiced for other instruments. Though first and foremost a brass quintet, the Brassworks will enlist other players as the music dictates, much like the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble.
The five core musicians in the ensemble are familiar faces in the local musical scene. They play in a range of groups and styles - jazz, big band, polka, wind ensemble, brass band, orchestral and, of course, quintet. The five members of the core quintet are Robert Laguna, trumpet; Jose Yznaga, trumpet; Chris Willuhn, French horn; Danny Schmidt, trombone; Mark Cain, tuba.
The program will be as follows:
Showstoppers
Vuelta del Fuego, Kevin McKee
Variations on a Joke, Peter Schickele
Puttin' on the Ritz, Irving Berlin, arranged by Stephen Roberts
La Virgen De La Macarena, Traditional, arranged by Geoffrey Bergler
Frere Jacques, Traditional, arranged by John Iveson
Largo al Factotum, Gioacchino Rossini, arranged by Jean-François Taillard
East St Louis Toodle oo, Bub Miley and Duke Ellington
Hoooo Raw, Paul G. Burrucker
Trombonology, Tommy Dorsey, arranged by Joshua Hauser
Bocoxe, Baden Powell de Aquino, arranged by Gary Buttery/Charles Warren
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, Sholom Secunda, arranged by Zack Smith (encore: don't list in program)