29 May, 2025
THE SOUND OF AMERICA
Echegaray Theatre, 8 p.m.
- Amy Beach (1867-1944)
- Romance, for violin and piano, Op.23
- Clemence de Forceville violin
- Natalia Kuchaeva piano
- Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- Four Songs for voice and piano, Op.13
- Susanne Hvinden Hals soprano
- Josu de Solaun piano
- Charles Ives (1874-1954)
- String Quartet No.1 of The Salvation Army (El Ejército de Salvación)
- Clemence de Forceville violin
- Anna Margrethe Nilsen violin
- Eleanor Kendra James viola
- Benedict Kloeckner cello
- Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- Adagio from the String Quartet, Op.11
- Clemence de Forceville violin
- Grigory Kalinovsky violin
- Eleanor Kendra James viola
- Christophe Morin cello
- John Corigliano (1938-)
- Sonata for violin and piano
- Jesús Reina violin
- Natalia Kuchaeva piano
The title of this program is the best explanation that can be made about it. “The sound of America”, the sound of chamber music resulting from a cultural melting pot, which was and is the United States.
Amy Beach’s beautiful melodies, Barber’s sensitivity, the musical revolution of Ives or the bravery of Corigliano, will take the spotlight in a concert that shows the birth and development of something new, built atop of preexisting monuments of the native and European cultures.