Chamber Music Concert Features Works by Finzi, Krommer and Schumann

Chamber Music Concert Features Works by Finzi, Krommer and Schumann
The Delaware County Symphony (DCS) will present the fourth chamber concert of the 2016-2017 season on Sunday April 2, 2017 at 3:00 pm in the Meagher Theatre of the Thomas A. Bruder, Jr. Life Center at Neumann University, One Neumann Drive, Aston, PA ( ¼ mile west of Concord Rd. and Rt. 452) The DCS chamber music series is under the direction of Dr. Robert Whalen who serves as Chamber Music Director and Associate Conductor.
The concert begins with three of the Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano composed by Gerald Finzi an early 20th century British composer who was noted for his choral works. The Five Bagatelles is considered to be one of his most beautiful works for Clarinet and Piano. The concert continues with the Concerto for Two Clarinets in E-flat Major by Franz Krommer. Krommer was a Czech composer of classical music, whose 71-year life span began half a year after the death of George Frideric Handel and ended nearly four years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven. The concert concludes with Piano Quintet in E-flat Major by Robert Schumann. This very popular piano quintet is noted for its "extroverted, exuberant" character; Schumann's piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions and a major work of nineteenth-century chamber music. It established the piano quintet as a quintessentially Romantic genre.
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Concert tickets are $12 or $10 for seniors/students. To purchase tickets now please click HERE.
Children under 12 (one child per paying adult) are admitted free. Upon presentation of the Delaware County or Montgomery County Library card two tickets may be purchased for the price of one regular admission ticket the day of the concert. There is ample free parking adjacent to the theatre and the Life Center is handicapped accessible. For information call 610-879-7059 or visit www.dcsmusic.org

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