Camerata Pacifica's WHY BEETHOVEN Project continues with Stanford, Glinka and Martinu

Renowned chamber music ensemble Camerata Pacifica continues its ambitious "Why Beethoven?" project with a performance of the composer's first major work for winds, his Quintet in E-flat for Piano & Winds, Op. 16.

The program opens with Three Intermezzi for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 13 by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, performed by Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet, and Molly Morkoski, piano. These artists will be joined by bassoonist William Short, who makes his Camerata debut, for Glinka's Trio Pathétique in N*E*R*D Minor. This work requires an unusual combination of instruments - clarinet, bassoon and piano. Full of Russian romanticism, it provides great opportunity for individual and ensemble virtuosity.

The program concludes with Bohuslav Martin's Sextet for Piano & Winds, also unusual in its instrumentation with a second bassoon replacing the to-be-expected french horn. The Sextet was written in 1929 in Paris, and reflects the Parisian interest of the time in jazz and ragtime.

Performances take place Thursday, November 1, 8 p.m. at Colburn School's Zipper Hall in Los Angeles; Friday, November 2, 7:30 p.m. at Hahn Hall in Santa Barbara; Sunday, November 4, 3 p.m. at the Museum of Ventura County in Ventura; and Wednesday, November 7, 7:30 p.m. at The Huntington Library in San Marino.

Camerata Pacifica's "Why Beethoven?"project continues Nov. 29 - Dec. 4, 2018 with The Calder String Quartet, who will perform Beethoven's final String Quartet, Op. 135 in F Major. This program also includes works by Arensky and Mendelssohn.

"Why Beethoven?" panel discussions begin in January 2019, and will feature Jan Swafford, author of the acclaimed Beethoven biography, Anguish and Triumph; Derek Katz, musicologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara; and Michael Steinberg, Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities and Professor of

History and Music at Brown University. Please click here for more information about the panel discussions.

Subscriptions ($219-$522) and single tickets ($58) can be ordered online at http://cameratapacifica.org/season-tickets/order-tickets or by calling 805-884-8410.

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