Concert 1 | roland-park-chamber

July 7, 14, 21, 28 - 7pm

Welcome to the eighth season of Summer Chamber Music in Roland Park at Roland Park Presbyterian Church. We are pleased to present another four-week series of concerts.

What began as casual evening get togethers of friends playing through beloved scores, our series has grown into four public concerts presented throughout the month of July.

In keeping with the summer festival feel, our concerts are free of admission - lovingly produced by friends near and far. Local favorite restaurants provide wine and hors d'oeuvres for our intermission receptions.

Our programming is thoughtful, and varied. We strive to breathe life into favorites from the past, while delighting in vibrant newer compositions that stir our hearts and minds.

Please join us for an intimate evening of community and music making.

Season 8 - Concert 1, July 7

Clarinet, harp and strings are equally featured on this diverse opening program.

Each piece, imbued with nationalistic or traditional folk influence, espouses a powerful sentiment, revealed by its own instrumental expression.

Clarinetist Michael J. Maccaferri from the Grammy Award-winning contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird joins us to perform music by Prokofiev and David Bruce.

READE Victorian Kitchen Garden

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Concertino for Harp, String Quartet,

Two Clarinets and Bass Clarinet

PROKOVIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes,

Op. 34 for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet

DAVID BRUCE Gumboots

Julia Martin Frazier – harp

Michael J. Maccaferri – clarinet

Tamara Seymour, Melina Gajger – Violin

Jackie Capecci – Viola

Gretchen Gettes – Cello

Matthew Dykeman, Allison Yacoub - clarinet

David Bruce's Gumboots, a 2011 Cargnegie Hall Commission is a relevant and captivating work. Gumboot Dancing was "born out of the brutal labour conditions in South Africa under Apartheid in which black miners where chained together and wore Gumboots (wellington boots) while they worked in the flooded gold mines, because it was cheaper for the owners to supply the boots than to drain the floodwater from the mine. Apparently slapping the boots and chains was used by the workers as a form of communication which was otherwise banned in the mine, and this later developed into a form of dance."