COUNTERPOINT - August 17, 2010

Robert De Cormier, director

Nathaniel Goeffrey Lew, associate artistic director

It was a Lover and his Lass Three Madrigals    Come Again, Sweet Love    Toss Not, My Soul    What If I Never Speed Early Morning Mists    Spring    Summer    Autumn    Winter Do You Remember Us? Poetry by Kathleen Raine    The World    The Sun Six Chansons Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke    La Biche    Un Cygne    Puisque tout passe    Printemps    En Hiver    Verger It was a Lover and his Lass

Thomas Morley (1557? - 1602) John Dowland (1562 - 1626) Yehezkel Braun (1922 - ) Don Jamison (1956 - ) Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963) John Rutter (1945 - )

- INTERMISSION -

It was a Lover and his Lass Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans    Dieu, qu'il l'a fait bon regarder    Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin    Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain Three Shakespeare Songs    Full Fathom Five    The Cloud-Capped Tower    Over Hill, Over Dale Songs from Shakespeare    Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Winds    Under the Greenwood Tree    O Mistress Mine    The Wind and the Rain It was a Lover and his Lass

Harry Freedman (1922 - 2005) Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) Ralph Vaughn Williams (1874 - 1958 ) Harry Freedman (1922 - 2005) Ward Single (1927 - )

            SUMMER MUSIC NOURISHES THE SOUL
            The Hardwick Gazette, Wednesday, July 22, 2009

by David K. Rodgers - The fourth concert in the Summer Music from Greensboro
...featured two piano trios by Kahn and Tchaikovsky...

Robert Kahn (l865 - 1951) bridged two centuries in his long life but, despite
significant changes in musical trends, he remained faithful to the lyricism
of the 19th Century at a time when dominant dissonance (particularly in the
12 tone system) was considered, rightlyand wrongly, to perfectly mirror the
disharmony of the 20th century world.... Broad sweeping melodies of a somewhat
conventional nature contrast with passages of more agitated and dark turmoil.
Romanul(violin), Dinnerstein(cello) and Chuan(piano) certainly did justice to
this piece and made one want to hear more of Kahn's compositions.

...Trio in A Minor for Piano and Strings, Op. 50, No.2 by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
(1840-93). Written in 1881-82, this monumental work sometimes goes beyond the
intimacy of the chamber music scale in the concerto-like chords in the piano line
and the almost symphonic massing in the scoring of the strings, ...The large second
movement consists of 11 variations on a beautiful melody (reminiscent of the Volga
Boat Man folk song) the ninth and 10th reaching quite ethereal heights....

Romanul showed his usual, smooth flowing bow work and infallible accuracy in his
fingering while Dinnerstein repeatedly brought out a particularly lovely dark tone
color from his cello. Chuan met the formidable challenge of the piano part with
admirable skill, and all three were rewarded with a standing ovation.