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A Little Night Music

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A little music.  A little art.  A lot of culture.

Now in its second season, the "A Little Night Music" Concert Series is pleased to offer six outstanding concerts featuring distinguished professional musicians of international renown along with members of our own highly talented faculty.  Each concert is paired with the opening of an art exhibit in The Gallery at CMS.  Join us for an evening out that is sure to please both eye and ear!

All concerts take place in the 200-seat Ingrid Larsen Evans Hall at Community Music School.  Seating is general admission with preferred seating offered to our patrons and sponsors.

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2007-2008 Concert SEASON Schedule

Saturday, October 13      Alan Stepansky, cello

Concert: 8:00pm

Artist's Reception: 7:00-8:00pm

With featured visual artist Neil Dreibelbis

Alan Stepansky returns to his native town of Trappe to open the second season of A Little Night Music concerts. Recognized as one of the most gifted cellists of his generation, whether performing as soloist, recitalist, or chamber musician, "he plays with great inward concentration and intensity, utter authority, and a beautiful, warm tone" (Strings Magazine). After a distinguished nine-year tenure as the NY Philharmonic's associate principal cellist, Alan now serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Stepansky will give a master class for CMS cello students on Saturday, October 13, 2007 from 2:00-4:00pm.  This class is free for CMS students.  Area students and teachers are welcome to observe for a fee of $10.00.

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Saturday, November 10     CMS Faculty Artists

Concert: 8:00pm

Artist's Reception: 7:00-8:00pm

With featured visual artist Tim Swartz

The Philadelphia region is rich in musical talent and many of these fine musicians teach at Community Music School. This program focuses a well-deserved spotlight on Community Music School's own distinguished faculty in a diverse program that features mixed instruments and voice as well as music of all periods and genres.

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Saturday, January 19     Dísella Làrusdóttir, soprano

Concert: 8:00pm

Artist's Reception: 7:00-8:00pm

With featured visual artist Dot Bunn

Icelandic soprano Dísella Làrusdóttir was a National Finalist in the 2007 Metropolitan National Council Auditions and will perform in the Met's production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha this season. Hailed by the New York Times as "reliably breathtaking," concert-goers in Trappe can expect the same with her program that will include works by Purcell, Bellini, Strauss and Rachmaninoff.

Ms. Làrusdóttir will give a master class for CMS voice students on Friday, January 18, 2008 from 6:00-8:00pm.  This class is free for CMS students.  Area students and teachers are welcome to observe for a fee of $10.00.

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Sunday, February 24      David Kim, violin

Concert: 5:30pm

Artist's Reception: 4:30-5:30pm

With featured visual artist Tim Wadsworth

Concert Master of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999, David Kim began playing the violin at age 3. In 1986 he was the only American to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He performs extensively throughout the world both with the Philadelphia Orchestra and as soloist with numerous other orchestras. Mr. Kim dedicates a portion of his schedule each year to bringing classical music to children in an effort to cultivate future audiences. Mr. Kim's program will include the world premiere of several hymn tune arrangements written specifically for Mr. Kim by Philadelphia composer Kile Smith.

Mr. Kim will give a master class for CMS violin students on Sunday, February 24, 2008 from 3:00-4:30pm.  This class is free for CMS students.  Area students and teachers are welcome to observe for a fee of $10.00.

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Saturday, March 29      Andrius Zlabys and Friends
Pavel Ilyashov, violin Yaira Matyakubova, violin Anton Jivaev, viola    Wendy Warner, cello

Concert: 8:00pm

Artist's Reception: 7:00-8:00pm

With featured quilts by Variable Star Quilters

Mr. Zlabys has appeared throughout the world as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. A prizewinner at the 2003 Cleveland International Piano Competition, he has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, and the Cleveland Orchestra. A winner of Astral Artistic Services' year 2000 National Auditions, Astral presented him in recital performing the entire Book I of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, a performance The Philadelphia Inquirer claimed "rippled off his hands with such open-hearted rightness that you couldn't escape the notion that the pianist was acting as Bach's ventriloquist. This adventurous program will include two world premieres - a piano quartet by Yevgeniy Sharlatt and a piano quintet by Luis Prado.

Mr. Zlabys will give a master class for CMS violin students on Friday, March 28, 2008 from 4:00-6:00pm.  This class is free for CMS students.  Area students and teachers are welcome to observe for a fee of $10.00.

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Saturday, April 12      CMS Faculty Artists

Concert: 8:00pm

Artist's Reception: 7:00-8:00pm

With featured visual artists from the National League of American Pen Women

This final concert of the season will again feature some of Community Music School's own talented faculty.

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Community Music School thanks the following businesses for their additional support of A Little Night Music concerts.  Please let them know how much you appreciate their support of the arts in our community by visiting them whenever you are in need of their services!

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