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Georgetown Festival of the Arts 2011
Brahms in Georgetown

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Schedule as of May 9, 2011

  Please note that all events, artists and lecturers are subject to change

     Links to Festival Events by Day

 
 

Pre-Festival Events
 
Tuesday Evenings, February 1 - March 8
 
  6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
  Senior University course: Brahms and the Twilight of Romanticism
  Southwestern University
 
  Ellsworth Peterson, Lecturer
   
 
 
Saturday afternoon, February 19
 
  3:00 p.m.
  DVD Presentations (No charge for this event)
  McKinney Center
  First United Methodist Church
 
  DVD Presentation:
   A Concise Biograrphy of Brahms
            and
   An Introduction to Brahms' Music
  Discussion by Ellsworth Peterson
   
 
 
Saturday afternoon, March 12
 
  3:00 p.m.
  DVD Presentation (No charge for this event)
  McKinney Center
  First United Methodist Church
 
  DVD Presentation:
   The Brahms Violin Concerto

      Introduction and performance by Gil Shahan
      with Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  Discussion by Ellsworth Peterson
   
 
Monday, April 11
 
  7:00 p.m.
  Brahms' Music for Chorus and piano
  Alma Thomas Theatre
  Southwestern University
 
  Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer (Love-Song Walzes), Op. 52
     for chorus and piano four hands,
     on verses from "Polydora" by Daumer
  Brahms' Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), Op. 103
     for chorus and piano,
     on texts from the Hungarian by Hugo Conrat
 
  The San Gabriel Chorale
  Bruce Cain, conductor
  Doris Hossalla and Eva Fariss, piano
   
Saturday, April 16 (During the Red Poppy Festival)
 
  12:30 - 2:30p.m.
  Surprise musical presentation (No charge for this event)
  Grace Heritage Center
  811 South Main Street (a block south of the Square)
   
  3:00 p.m.
  DVD Presentation (No charge for this event)
  McKinney Center
  First United Methodist Church
 
  DVD: Brahms' Fourth Symphony
     Introduction and performance by André Previn
     with the Royal Philhamonic Orchestra
  Discussion by Ellsworth Peterson
   
Saturday, May 7
 
  2:30 p.m.
  Chamber Music for String Quartet and Piano
  Round Rock Presbyterian Church
  4010 Sam Bass Road
  Round Rock, Tx 78681
     For full details see theRound Rock Symphony Web site
 
    Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat Major
     Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor
     Brahms Piano Quartet in F minor

 
  The Aeolus String Quartet
  Toby Blumenthal, piano
   
Sunday, May 15
 
 
  2:00 p.m.

This concert is dedicated to the memory of
Drusilla Huffmaster Anderson
in appreciation for her gift of her
Steinway Grand Piano
to the Georgetown Symphony Society


Drusilla Huffmaster Anderson
Drusilla Huffmaster Anderson 1917 - 2011
photo courtesy of Karin Tripp

  A Recital of Music by Johannes Brahms (No charge for this event)
  The Hewlett Room
  Georgetown Public Library
 
    Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118
     Two Songs
          Wie Melodien zieht es
          Vergebliches Ständchen
      Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1, for clarinet and piano
 
  Timothy Nolt, piano
  Teri Johnson, soprano
  Anna Carney, clarinet
  Discussion by Ellsworth Peterson
   
Saturday, May 21
 
  7:00 p.m.
  From Vienna to Paris
  C. D. Fulkes Auditorium
  300 East Anderson Ave.
  Round Rock, Tx 78664
  7:00 Pre-concert lecture; 7:30 concert
   For full details see the
Round Rock Symphony Web site
 
    Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
     Mozart Clarinet Concerto
     Brahms Symphony No. 4

 
  The Round Rock Symphony Orchestra
  Silas Nathaniel Huff, conductor
  Sarunas Jankauskas, clarinet
   
 

Festival 2011: Brahms in Georgetown

 
Thursday, June 2
  2:00 p.m.
  Brahms Symposium I
  Palace Theatre
   
  Ellsworth Peterson
    Brahms in Georgetown: An Introduction to the Festival
    Interviews with Participants
   
  Jan Swafford
    Brahms and the Great Tradition
   
             
  6:30 p.m.  
  Reception for Donors to meet the artists
  President's House, Southwestern University
   
  8:00 p.m.
  A Concert of Brahms' Chamber Music
  Lois Perkins Chapel
  Southwestern University
   
    String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 88
    String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111
    String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18
   
  The Miró Quartet  
  The Shanghai Quartet  
Friday, June 3
 
  9:30 a.m.
  Brahms Symposium II
  Caldwell-Carvey Foyer
  Sarofim School of Fine Arts
  Southwestern University
                   
  William Lawrence McGinney
    'You Can't Make this Up':
     Song of Love and the Great Composer According to Hollywood
   
  Susan Youens
    A little bit medieval, a lot Romantic:
    Brahms's Romances from Ludwig Tieck's Magelone, Op. 33
   
   
  2:00 p.m.
  City Lights Theatre
   
  A showing of Song of Love
  (A 1947 Hollywood film on the life of the Schumanns and Brahms,
  starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid and Robert Walker)
  This event is free to the public.
   
        Lobby poster of Song of Love
   
  8:00 p.m.
  A Brahms Chamber and Lieder Recital
  First United Methodist Church
   
  Hai Zheng, cello
  Toby Blumenthal, piano
   
    Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38
   
  Weston Hurt, baritone
  Virginia Dupuy, narrator
  Dale Dietert, piano
   
    Song Cycle: The Love Story of the Fair Magelone
    and Count Peter from Provence,
Op. 33
 
Saturday, June 4
 
  9:30 a.m.  
  Brahms Symposium III  
  Hewlett Room  
  Georgetown Public Library  
     
  Kirsten Peterson  
    Style hongrois, German folksong and Austrian Ländler:
    Brahms' use of ethnic materials in his music
 
     
  Ellsworth Peterson  
    Kaleidoscopic harmonies in Brahms' late piano pieces  
     
  3:30 p.m.  
  A Recital of Brahms' Late Music  
  First United Methodist Church  
     
  Eri Lee Lam, violin  
  Vincent Lam, piano  
   
    Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108  
     
  Vincert Lam, piano  
   
    Vier Klavierstücke, Op. 119  
     
  Anna Carney, clarinet  
  Timothy Nolt, piano  
   
    Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 120, no. 1  
     
  Virginia Dupuy, mezzo-soprano  
  Dale Dietert, piano  
   
    Vier Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121  
     
  Ellsworth Peterson, organ  
   
    O Welt, ich muß dich lassen, Op. 122, No. 11  
     
  8:00 p.m.  
  Brahms in the Park (No charge for this event)  
  Gazebo, San Gabriel Park  
     
  Georgetown High School Band, Chorus and Orchestra  
  Jason Schayot, Joey Lowrance and Mary Powers, conductors
     
    Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F-sharp Minor (Band)
    Allegro giocoso from Symphony No. 4, Op. 98 (String Orchestra)
    Motet, Op. 30 (Chorus and String Orchestra)
    Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (Orchestra)
     
  Temple Symphony Orchestra  
  Thomas Fairlie, conductor  
     
    Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
     
  The concert will be followed by a display of fireworks.
   
Sunday, June 5  
   
  Services of Worship  
  Various Churches in Georgetown  
   
  Music by Brahms  
   
  3:15 p.m.  
  Pre-Concert Lecture  
  Caldwell-Carvey Foyer  
  Southwestern University  
   
  Ellsworth Peterson  
  A Requiem for the Living  
   
   
  4:00 p.m.  
  Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45  
  Alma Thomas Theatre  
  Southwestern University  
   
  Mela Dailey, soprano  
  Weston Hurt, baritone  
  Festival Chorus and Orchestra, comprising  
  San Gabriel Chorale and Chorus Austin  
  Kenneth Sheppard, conductor  
             
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FESTIVAL DATES


Brahms in Georgetown

Thursday, June 2,
through
Sunday June 5, 2011

CONTACT US

Georgetown Festival of the Arts

P.O. Box 846
Georgetown, TX 78627

Tel 512.639.0433

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