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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 The New York Times gives Helicon a star.
From the New York Times Weekend Listings, Friday, 5/13/2011:
★ A Dvorak Salon (Sunday and Monday) Each season the Helicon Foundation presents a short but varied series of intimate, immaculately fashioned symposiums, this one featuring the music of Dvorak. The excellent young mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano sings the “Gypsy Songs,” accompanied by the pianist Pedja Muzijevic, who is in turn joined by the members of the adventurous quartet Brooklyn Rider — the violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, the violist Nicholas Cords and the cellist Eric Jacobsen — for the “Bagatelles” (Op. 47) and Piano Quintet No. 2 in A (Op. 81). Limited seating. Sunday at 5 p.m. and Monday at 7 p.m., e-mail.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call (212) 874-6438 for tickets and the concert’s location. (Woolfe)
Posted by James Roe at 4:13am
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 Helicon Announces the Programs of its 27th Season, 2011-2012
2011-2012 Chamber Music Symposium Schedule
Sundays @ 5:00 Series • Mondays @ 7:00 Series
Symposium 99 — The Voice of Bach’s Violin — 23 & 24 Oct 2011
J. S. Bach Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard
Obbligato Baritone Arias from the Cantatas
Mark Steinberg, Barouqe violin
Christòpheren Nomura, baritone
Ilya Poletaev, harpsichord
Ezra Seltzer, Baroque cello
Symposium 100 — Symphonic Chamber Music from the 18th Century on Period Instruments — 11 & 12 Dec 2011
Mozart Piano Concerto, K. 449, chamber version
Haydn "Clock" Symphony arranged for flute, string quartet, and fortepiano
Pedja Muzijevic, fortepiano
Monica Huggett, violin
Adriane Post, violin
David Cerutti, viola
Myron Lutzke, cello
Christopher Kreuger, flute
Symposium 101 — “Udite Amanti” Songs of Love from 17th-Century Italy — 12 & 13 Feb 2012
Giulio Caccini Le nuove musiche
Tarquinio Merula Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna 'Hor ch'è il tempo di dormire'
Barbara Strozzi L'Eraclito amoroso 'Udite Amanti'
Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano
Michael Leopold, theorbo
Chiara Granata, Baroque triple harp
Symposium 102 — "Late Works" Romantic Masterpieces on Period Instruments— 29 & 30 Apr 2012
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Schubert Cello Quintet in C
Eric Hoeprich, clarinet
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Colin Jacobsen, violin
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Myron Lutzke, cello
Nina Lee, cello
Posted by James Roe at 5:30pm
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 SCHUBERT PROGRAM NOTE by Mark Steinberg
In advance of Sunday's Symposium featuring, Franz Schubert's Octet in F Major, I encourage you to read Mark Steinberg's program note. Please click here to do so.
Mark is a member of Helicon's Advisory Committee, a regular Helicon performer, and a penetrating thinker about music. I believe you will be moved by what he has written, and that it will expand the way we all think about music writing and about music itself.