The Chamber Players will open their forty-fifth season on Oct. 9-10 with a program titled “The Blue Danube,” featuring works for strings and piano by Hungarian and Austrian composers Bartók, Goldmark and Haydn.
Bassist Timothy Cobb will be the guest artist in the Nov. 13-14 concerts, aptly named “The Bottom Line.” Cobb has been Principal Bass of the New York Philharmonic since 2014. He will join the Chamber Players in three works – Serenata in Vano for Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Cello and Bass, by Karl Nielsen, Dvořák’s Bass Quintet in G major, Op.77, and finally the great Octet in F major,
Op.166 by Franz Schubert.
The March 12-13 (2017) concerts, “Snake Charmers,” reflect examples of music written for the oboe, here represented by Holst, Cimarosa and Bellini. As the concert’s finale, The Chamber Players will present one of the late works of Beethoven – the String Quartet No. 12, in E-flat major, Op.127.
Violinist Susan Hytken-Metcalf speaks of the music, “We hope to present more of Beethoven’s string quartets in future seasons. They are extremely challenging and require a great deal of rehearsal time.”
For the April 23-24 concerts, the theme will be “Old World and New World,” with music for piano and strings by Mozart, Copeland and Zarebski.
Chamber Players concerts are on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m. at the Round Hill Community Church, and on Monday evenings at the Bruce Museum at 7:30 p.m. Wine and cheese receptions at each concert afford audience and musicians an informal time to enjoy each other’s company. Season tickets are $90 for adults and $15 for students; single concert tickets are $30 for adults and $5 for students.
