Friday November 27, 2009

Colorado College Summer Music Festival
Carl Vine: Flute Sonata

Michael Parloff, flute; Susan Grace, piano (7/3/05)
Ernö Dohnányi: Sextet in C Major, Op. 37

Steven Copes, violin; Roger Chase, viola; Bion Tsang, cello; Jon Manasse, clarinet; Stewart Rose, horn; John Novacek, piano (7/3/05)
Also, Charley anticipates the Walden Chamber Music Society's program Sunday in Salida.
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Allegretto" (3rd movement) from Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.16
Walden Piano Quartet
Walden Track 3 5:59


Born in Perth, Australia, Vine studied piano and composition at the University of Western Australia before moving to Sydney in 1975. He has been resident composer with the Sydney Dance Company, the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, the New South Wales State Conservatorium, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and the Western Australian University. In 1979 he was co-founder of the contemporary music ensemble Flederman. Since 2000, he has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia.

Born in Pressburg (Bratislava), Dohnányi entered the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest in 1894. When Brahms heard his Quintet in C minor, he exclaimed, ``I could not have written it better myself.'' Dohnányi's Symphony in F major was awarded the king's prize in 1897, the same year he began studying with Eugen d'Albert. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin, and in 1919 was appointed director of the Budapest Conservatory and conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1948, having lost two sons in the War, he left Hungary, traveling to Austria, then spent a year in Argentina. In the fall of 1949 he came to the United States to teach at Florida State College in Tallahassee.