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Marc’s Picks for the 2008 Season
Artistic Director Marc Neikrug discusses his recommendations for the season!
July 20 & 21
The 2008 season begins brilliantly with Bach’s ever-popular Brandenburg Concerto No. 2.
Noted Santa Fe actor Jonathan Richards and Guitarist Simon Wynberg perform Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco’s Platero y yo. This classic of Spanish literature by Juan Ramón Jiménez presents a touching and lyrical picture of life in the remote Andalusian village of Moguer as seen through the eyes of a wandering poet and his faithful donkey.
Cellist Lynn Harrell and pianist Yuja Wang conclude the opening concerts with the passionate Cello Sonata by Rachmaninoff.
July 23 & 24
Our new Albuquerque series starts with Schumann’s romantic Dichterliebe sung by the superb baritone, Laurent Naouri. Festival favorites Lynn Harrell and Yuja Wang join other musicians for a rare performance of Sergei Taneyev’s soulfully Russian Piano Quintet.
July 26, 27 & 28
With repertoire ranging from classical to jazz, via Latin America and the African-American experience, The Imani Winds delight audience around the world. On Saturday, July 26 they will play Latin music by Astor Piazzolla and Paquito d’Rivera, as well as a Portrait of Josephine Baker. On Sunday and Monday, July 27 and 28 they will join the great Miami String Quartet in the premiere of Roberto Sierra’s Concierto de Camera.
August 6
The dynamic trio, Real Quiet will play the world premieres of “Real Loud” by the exciting, young composer Huang Rao and Serenatas by the world-renown Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho.
August 6, 7, 10 & 11
2007’s Beethoven Quartet cycle concerts were sold out, but there are still seats available for this year’s Part 2. Be sure to attend this year’s performances by the Orion String Quartet when they play nine of Beethoven’s greatest works as the cycle concludes.
August 20
2008 Grammy Award winning composer Joan Tower’s her new quintet for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, “A Gift,” is inspired by “My Funny Valentine.” She said that the Rogers and Hart melody is not used as a theme for variations but rather as a subliminal musical idea, often floating in the background, sometimes forgotten completely, occasionally rising in fragments to conscious awareness.
Also on the concert hear Beethoven’s “Ghost” Trio and Dvorak’s folksy “Serenade” with the Festival’s All-Star wind soloists conducted by Guillermo Figueroa.
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