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2011-2012 season

Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 7:00 pm

The Vinca String Quartet
Leos Janacek (1854-1928) -- Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- Quartet in d minor K. 421
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -- Quartet in e minor Op. 59 no. 2

Friday, December 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm

Hando Nahkur, piano
In celebration of Franz Liszt's 200th birth year

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) -- Die Trauergondel No. 1
Franz Liszt -- Ballade No. 2
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) -- Ballade
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), arr. Liszt -- Réminiscences de Norma

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:00 pm

Luigi Boccia, tenor
Arthur McManus, piano

Arie antiche
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) -- Gia il sole del Gange
Giuseppe Giordani (1751-1798) -- Caro mio ben
Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) -- Che fiero costume

Opera aria
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) -- Che gelida manina from La Bohême

Composers of Songs
Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) -- 'A vucchella
Tosti -- Ideale
Pier Adolfo Tirindelli (1858-1937) -- O primavera

Songs by 20th-Century Opera Composers
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) -- Sole e amore
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) -- Serenata
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) -- Nebbie
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) -- Mattinata

Songs of Naples
Edoardo Nicolardi (1878-1954) and Evemero Nardelli (1878-1950) -- Miez' 'o grano
Enzo Fusco (1899-1951) and Rodolfo Falvo (1873-1937) -- Dicitencello vuie

Friday, March 16, 2001 at 8:00 pm

The Proteus String Quartet
with Wayland cellist Steve Laven

Music of Eastern Europe

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
String Quartet #1 in e minor, From my Life

Transcriptions of folk music by Georgian composers

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
String Quartet #2