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Whidbey Island Music Festival - Love and Longing: Johannes Brahms & Florence Price

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Love and Longing: Songs and chamber music of Johannes Brahms and Florence Price

Reginald Mobley, alto

Tekla Cunningham, violin and viola

Henry Lebedinsky, piano

Sheila Weidendorf, piano

Program

 

Sonata in E flat for viola and piano (arr. Violin), Op. 120
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

 

Intermezzi, Op. 119 Brahms

 

Songs
Florence Price (1887-1953)

 

Adoration for violin and piano
Florence Price 

 

Two songs for alto, viola, piano, Op. 91 
Johannes Brahms

Gestillte Sehnsucht  

Geistliches Wiegenlied

 

Towards the end of his life Brahms met Richard Mühlfeld and became entranced with the sound of the clarinet. This meeting led Brahms to write the sonata in Eb for clarinet and piano. He reworked both the Eflat and the F major sonatas for viola and for violin, with adjustments in both the piano and string parts. These sonatas were Brahms’ last chamber music compositions. Florence Price was a Black American composer whose work was the focus of Agave Ensemble’s recent GRAMMY nominated album “American Originals”. Her work synthesizes her academic training in European art music with American vernacular and frequently incorporates hymns and spirituals.

August 14 | 4:00 PM

TICKETS

Standard - $30
WICA Star - $45

Earlier Event: August 13
Hedgebrook Screenwriters Showcase
Later Event: August 16
In Another Light

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.