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Winter Melodies: Tiny Treasures
Sunday, March 5, 2023 / 2:00 p.m.
Feature photo credit

Johann Heinrich Köhler (German, Dresden, 1669–1736), Miniature Clock in its Original Case, c. 1720. Silver-gilt, silver, gemstones, carnelian, and polychrome enamel. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Elijah K. and Barbara H. Hubbard Decorative Arts Fund, purchased in honor of Linda H. Roth for forty years of service to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Sunday Serenades

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Carolyn Kuan, Music Director

Sunday Serenades at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Leonid Sigal, Artistic Director


WINTER MELODIES:
Tiny Treasures

Sunday, March 5, 2023 / 2:00 p.m.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

LEONID SIGAL, violin    
MICHAEL WHEELER, viola
AEKYUNG KIM, viola
CARA CHEUNG, cello
MARK ZECHEL, bass
PAUL WONJIN CHO, clarinet
GARY CHAPMAN, piano


ARLENE SIERRA
(b. 1970)

 

Butterflies Remember a Mountain
Butterflies. Animato
Remember. Scorrevole
A Mountain. Moderato ma con energico

FRANCIS POULENC
(1899-1963)

 

L’invitation au Château – incidental music
Act I: Très animé – Modéré – Lent
Act II: Valse brillante – Très calme – Mouvement de valse hesitation – Tempo di marcia – Valse des petites taupes
Act III: Valse brillante – Mouvement de valse – Tempo di boston – Tango – Mouvement de Valse – Moderato – L’istesso tempo – Appassionato – Tango – Très vite et très canaille – Tempo di tarantella – Polka finale – Presto – Follement vite et gai

-INTERMISSION-

FELIX MENDELSSOHN
(1809-1847)

 

Sextet for Piano and Strings in D Major, Op. 110
Allegro vivace
Adagio
Minuetto. Agitato
Allegro vivace


Cameras and recording equipment are not permitted during the performance.

As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, please turn off watch alarms and cell phones.

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.


The Sunday Serenades Chamber Music Series is made possible in part by The Saunders Foundation Music Endowment at the Wadsworth Atheneum; Nancy D. Grover in honor of Leonid Sigal, concertmaster, Hartford Symphony Orchestra; and Suzanne Hopgood in memory of Frank Lord.