The end of the Sunday Chamber Music Series will see the Grand Finale of the Maestros at The Act on Sunday, March 30.
The Sunday Chamber Music series invites new listeners and aficionados alike to experience the rich world and intimate musical conversations of classical chamber music, performed at the highest levels.
The programme features Oscar Levant's "Sonatina for Piano." Legendary teacher to some of the 20th century’s most renowned composers, Nadia Boulanger's "Three Pieces for Cello and Piano" is an impressionistic work. Himself a pupil of Boulanger, Leonard Bernstein's "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano" blends classical form and jazz influences into a dynamic performance experience. The concert and series concludes with one of chamber music’s ‘greatest hits’ - Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet.
The series is called Musical Masters of the Stage and Screen and highlights composers who moved fluidly between the concert hall, film scoring, and works for the stage. Featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, Erich Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota and Oscar Levant among other greats, the series explores how film and the stage shaped composers, in Hollywood and beyond.
Cellist Eric Wilson, this season’s series curator and host, enjoys a career as a soloist and chamber musician in addition to being a UBC cello and chamber music professor. He is a founding member of the acclaimed Emerson String Quartet and solo cellist of the Ensemble of New York in residence at Lincoln Center, New York.
The 90-minute show starts at 3 p.m. in the Mainstage Theatre, and the cost is $27.50 plus fees. Tickets are available at theactmapleridge.org.
