The Jim and Mical Brenzel Encounter Series invites you to go beyond the concert hall and explore the heart of chamber music. Led by top musicians and thinkers, these evening talks explore the themes of each festival with great stories, insights, and musical moments. Whether you’re a longtime fan or just getting into chamber music, you’ll come away inspired.
Arnold Schoenberg’s chamber melodrama Pierrot lunaire experienced a tumultuous premiere on its way to becoming a twentieth-century classic. Ara Guzelimian returns to recount the origins of seventeenth-century commedia dell’arte and its famous character Pierrot, the sad clown. From there, he tells the story of the legendary first performance of Schoenberg’s work as well as the highly charged reaction of the Berlin audience. With festival musicians demonstrating some of the work’s highlights, he will explore the expressive power of Schoenberg’s music in performance.
Tickets: $50 full-price | $25 under age thirty
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