June 7 - DALLAS MUSEUM of ART

June 7 - DALLAS MUSEUM of ART @ 1717 N. Harwood
Brahms' Quartet for Piano and Strings

No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60, performed by

members of the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphonies

with pianist Christina Long

BANCROFT FAMILY CONCERTS FEATURE IMPORTANT BRAHMS WORK
DALLAS – Fine Arts Chamber Players' (FACP) free Bancroft Family Concert for June will feature a major work for piano and strings by Johannes Brahms on Saturday, June 7, at 3:00 pm in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N. Harwood Street, 75201. Admission to the concert is free and requires no reservation.
For more information, please call 214.520.2219

or visit http://www.fineartschamberplayers.org/.

Bruce Wittrig - Dallas Symphony violinist, violist Dmitry Kustanovitch and cellist Nicole Hansen Strydom – both members of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and pianist Christina Long will perform Brahms' Quartet for Piano and Strings No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 60 ("Werther"). Laurie Shulman, program annotator for the Dallas Symphony will provide pre-concert commentary about the importance of this work in the chamber music literature.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) began composing this work during a difficult period for him and his friends Robert and Clara Schumann. When Robert entered a mental asylum, Brahms attempted to provide moral support for Clara and her children. However, Brahms' own emotions were extremely strained due to his affection for Clara herself. In a letter to a friend, he described the first movement of this work as a sort of musical corollary to the suicidal desperation of Goethe's Werther. This comment resulted in the quartet’s common subtitle “Werther.”

Fine Arts Chamber Players' Bancroft Family Concerts are made possible in part by the Sue & Christopher Bancroft Family, the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, The Dallas Museum of Art, TACA, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Dallas Arts District Foundation, People Newspapers and WRR-FM Classical 101.

For over a quarter of a century, FACP has presented free classical music programs for the enrichment of North Texas area residents. Concerts annually showcase over fifty outstanding Metroplex professional musicians. In addition to the free Bancroft Family Concerts, FACP presents the free Basically Beethoven Festival in July. Each year, FACP's educational outreach programs, Dream Collectors and Community Classics, provide over 350 free performances in area public schools.
Read an overview of the Bancroft Family Concerts

May 20-Eisemann Center, Richardson, Texas

The National convention of National Association of Composers USA is going to be at Dallas on May 20. There will an evening concert as an culmination of the whole-day event. This concert is a collaboration of living composers and instrumentalists from around the country.

The composers are from Dallas (Wieslaw Rentowski), New York (Carson Cooman, I-Uen Hwang), faculty of UCLA (Daivd Lefkowitz) ), UT at San Marcos(Dimitar Ninov) , UTD (Robert Rodriguez), and Southeastern Oklahoma State University (James Wintle) among others.

The featured artists includes the Long Duo -- Beatrice and Christina Long, one of the most sought-after piano duos in North America, Luca Bruno (piano, SMU), Mitch Weverka (guitar), Karen Lim (violin), Joel Adair (trumpet), Jason Hausback (trombone) Drew Lang and Greg White (percussion).

The concert is at 7:30 PM, May 20 (Tuesday) at Courtyard Theater of Eisemann Center of Performing Arts, Richardson.

For ticket information, please visit http://www.eisemanncenter.com/, or (972) 744-4650.
For Long Duo, please visit http://www.longduopiano.com/

Recital at Preston Hollow Presbyterian

Yuri Anshelevich in Recital at Preston Hollow Presbyterian

Russian-born cellist Yuri Anshelevich, Associate Principal Cellist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, will present a free recital at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening, March 30, at 7:00 p.m. Accompanied by pianist Christina Long, the program will include works by Brahms, de Falla, Schumann and Shostakovich.

Accepted to the Moscow State Conservatory at the age of fourteen, Mr. Anshelevich graduated from there with highest honors. He also won
First Prize in the Cello Division of the All-Russian Competition. He studied with Mstislav Rostropovich. Since then, he has won wide critical acclaim for concert and recital performances the world over. He is often described as a performer of power, imagination and vitality.

The program is a part of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church's Concert Classics series. There is no charge for admission, but donations are gratefully accepted to assist with the expenses of the concert. Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church is located at 9800 Preston Road at Walnut Hill Lane in Dallas.

For more information, call 214-368-6348, ext. 142.