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WEEKEND OF CHAMBER MUSIC
We’ll Always Have Paris
JULY 16-31
W Violinist Nurit Pacht and Cellist Caroline Stinson perform at the Eddie Adams Barn, home to WCM Concerts
2015 Composer John Corigliano in conversation with Andy Waggoner at the Catskill Distilling Company Photos by Tom Bushey
eekend of Chamber Music’s 23rd season is here, and this year’s festival, We’ll Always Have Paris, runs from July 16 through 31st. WCM will present 11
of the festival’s most distinctive ongoing features. The Festival programs trace five centuries of music, with works of Couperin, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Cablet; new solo and duo works by Pascal Dusapin and Franco-Lebanese composer Zad Moultaka; vocal and chamber works of Anna Weesner that weave European and American classical, pop and folk threads into a unique and beautiful tapestry; and the theatrical, world-changing, Pierrot lunaire (Pierrot in the Moonlight) of Schönberg.
events at all its usual and unusual venues in Sullivan and surrounding counties, with the addition this year of the Catskill Art Society and The Narrowsburg Union, and a return to the Cooperage in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. As the classic line from Casablanca suggests, the festival’s programming this year takes us to France, for a tour of French and French-inspired music old and new.
Events in May and June will excite the palate for the summer’s program through music and discussion. WCM will map the festival journey through a series of Informances (informal lecture-perform- ances) at the Catskill Art Society, in Livingston Manor, NY, creating context for the festival as a whole, and through Mystery, Melodrama and Pierrot Lunaire (May 28), providing an in-depth look at the epic masterpiece by Schönberg, to be performed in the final weekend of the festival. Saturday June 18th at 4pm, the WCM Annual Benefit Nuit d’été/Summer’s Eve will present works by Americans in Paris and the music that inspired them, alongside a gourmet 3-course meal with wine on a private farm. Money raised will help keep the Informances and family events free.
WCM continues to heighten the chamber music experience through pre-concert talks, open workshops and discussions with the guest composer, during which audience members can both observe festival artists at work and ask questions in real-time. And the geographic reach of the festival continues to grow, with WCM presenting its final weekend of events at the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor and the renown Lincoln Center Kids character Wolfgang Amadeus Schmutzinberry (Rami Vamos) will make an appearance that same weekend at the Narrowsburg Union. A listing of our events can be found in the cultural calendar on pages 26-31 in this journal. More info on the artists, the music, and the festival itself, can be found at wcmconcerts.org.
Joining forces with WCM for the Summer Festival will be Philadelphia-based composer-in-residence Anna Weesner, an American steeped in the music of France whose work has been performed by artists such as soprano Dawn Upshaw, along with Armand Angster and Françoise Kubler, founders of the French ensemble Accroche Note and champions of music from the Old World and the New. Accroche Note also specializes in free improvisation, and will contribute a new sound and approach to one
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