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Miki Aoki joins Luke Hill and Wesley Skinner in a different combination for each piece: violin and piano, then cello and piano, then all three. George Frideric Handel's Violin Sonata opens the afternoon. It was his last piece of chamber music, and its closing dance returned as the sinfonia that opens the third act of Jephtha, the oratorio he set aside in February 1751 when the sight in his left eye began to fail.Fazıl Say's Four Cities takes the cello through four Turkish cities: the melancholy of a saz in Sivas, a fast Black Sea dance in Hopa, a wartime protest song in Ankara, and jazz in the bars of Bodrum, ending in a pub brawl. Our principal cellist Wesley Skinner calls it one of the greatest cello works written this century.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky once told his patron he could not endure the sound of piano with violin and cello. Then Nikolai Rubinstein died, and Tchaikovsky wrote his Piano Trio in A minor in Rubinstein's memory. Rubinstein had been one of the great pianists of the age, so the piano part grew until it came close to a concerto.
Mountain Artists Guild joins us for the third time, with a juried show responding to the music, on stage and in the lobby.
Miki Aoki, piano; Luke Hill, violin; Wesley Skinner, cello.
Pre-concert talk at 2:00 pm.
Tickets: Tier 1 $69, Tier 2 $54, Tier 3 $28, 21 and under $10, K–12 teacher with ID $15. Art 4 All™ pay-what-you-can tickets are available to those who can't afford a ticket. Tickets and details: azphil.org/event/echoes-across-time/
Thursday, February 11, free: cellist Wesley Skinner takes you inside this program. Time and registration to be announced at azphil.org/event/olli-skinner/
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Ruth Street Theater, 1050 N Ruth St, Prescott, AZ, United States
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