Rembrandt Chamber Musicians Presents: Sound Czech with guest artists Black Oak Ensemble

REMBRANDT CHAMBER MUSICIANS 2024–2025
CONCERT V: Sound Czech

Tickets:
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SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025 | 3:00 PM
Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave, Evanston

ARTISTS: Black Oak Ensemble: Desirée Ruhstrat, violin; Aurélien Fort Pederzoli, viola; David Cunliffe, cello.

John Macfarlane,violin; Carol Cook; Sydney Lee, cello

PROGRAM:
DVOŘÁK: Terzetto in C major
Gideon KLEIN: String Trio (1944)
INTERMISSION
DVOŘÁK: String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48

Sound Czech:
While the title is a good-natured pun, it also raises a question that has been asked repeatedly over the centuries during nationalist debates about music. Can a particular country have a singular “authentic” music? What does it mean to “sound Czech,” exactly? Dvořak’s Terzetto and Sextet and Klein’s String Trio demonstrate that despite the composers’ shared homeland, each had different reasons for making music and worked in radically different circumstances. Exploring what it means to “sound Czech” opens the door to the richness of music history and underscores the innate human need to make music, whether writing for domestic settings, striving to maintain a semblance of normalcy in horrific conditions, or keeping a piece of the past alive.