Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Lara St. John Announces Live-Streamed Concerts

This morning violinist Lara St. John announced the schedule for The Atterbury House Sessions. She planned this series of eleven live-streamed chamber music concerts to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Atterbury House, located at 131 East 70th Street in Manhattan, considered one of the iconic architectural contributions of its time. As of this writing, little is known other than the ensembles that have been recruited and the dates on which they will perform as follows, all Saturdays:

[updated 1/20; 2:50 p.m.: specifics added for performers and repertoire

  1. January 23: Sybarite5 (Sami Merdinian and Sarah Whitney, violins; Angela Pickett, viola; Laura Metcalf, cello; Louis Levitt, bass)—Groove Machine - Marc Mellits; Slow Burn - Jessica Meyer; Allemande pour tout le monde - Kenji Bunch; Weird Fishes - Radiohead arr. Paul Kim; Kompa for Toussaint - Daniel Bernard Roumain; Movement and Location - Punch Brothers arr. Paul Kim; Milonga del Angel - Astor Piazzolla; My Desert, My Rose - Aleksandra Vrebalov
  2. February 6: violinist Tessa Lark and bassist Michael Thurber—two-part inventions by Johann Sebastian Bach interleaved with original compositions
  3. February 20: the Ulysses Quartet (Rhiannon Banerdt, Christina Bouey, violins; Colin Brookes, viola; Grace Ho, cello)—Armenian Folk Songs - Komitas; Quartet Opus 74, Number 4 "Sunrise" - Joseph Haydn; Quartet Opus 18, Number 4 - Ludwig vanBeethoven
  4. February 27: bassist Xavier Foley—Cello Suite No. 1 - Johann Sebastian Bach; original compositions by Foley for solo bass and for duo of bass and violin (St. John)
  5. March 13: PUBLIQuartet (Jannina Norpoth, Curtis Stewart, violins; Nick Revel, viola; Hamilton Berry, cello)—original compositions and pop arrangements
  6. April 3: The Westerlies (Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands, trumpet; Andy Clausen and Willem de Koch, trombone)—traditional music and compositions by Charles Ives and Duke Ellington
  7. April 17: Imani Winds (Brandon Patrick-George, flute; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Jeff Scott, horn; Mark Dover, clarinet; Monica Ellis, bassoon)—Quintette en forme de Choros - Heitor Villa-Lobos and arrangements of musc by Maurice Ravel, Simon Shaheen, and Mongo Santamaria
  8. April 24: Baroque violinist Aisslinn Nosky and friends (Arnie Tanimoto, gamba; Robert Warner, harpsiochord)—Violin Sonata HWV 371 - George Frederic Handel; Violin Sonata Opus 2, Number 3 - Antonio Vivaldi; Fantasia for solo violin - Georg Philipp Telemann; Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord - Bach
  9. May 8: the Brentano Quartet (Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, violins; Misha Amory, viola; Nina Lee, cello)—Quartet Opus 20, Number 5 - Haydn; Quartet Opus 80 - Felix Mendelssohn
  10. May 15: violinist Augustin Hadelich (accompanist not yet announced)—Fantasy Number 5 - Telemann; Caprice Number 9 - Niccolò Paganini; Violin Partita No. 2 - Bach; blues compositions by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
  11. June 5: violinist Lara St. John (program and additional performers not yet announced)]

The only other specific information is that each performance will begin at 2 p.m. (Pacific time). There will be no charge for the streaming service, which will supposedly be hosted through these sources: the CRB (Classical Radio Boston) Web site, St. John’s Facebook site, and St. John’s YouTube channel. Any further specific information regarding the performers or the program selections will be available either through this Web page or through a hyperlink attached to this Web page.

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