Musicians of Ma’alwyck will present “Moonstruck” Saturday, March 1 at 8 p.m. in the Fred L. Emerson Foundation Auditorium in the Taylor Music Center. “Moonstruck” features a program of 20th century works from composers Arnold Schoenberg, Hilary Tann and Richard Strauss.
Scored for soprano and chamber ensemble, “Moonstruck” includes Arnold Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire,” “Nothing Forgotten” by Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music at Union College, and “Four Last Songs” by Richard Strauss. Musicians of Ma’alwyck, formed in 1999 by Director Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, commissioned a chamber ensemble arrangement by transcriber and Bruckner scholar William Carragan.
The first-ever performances of these arrangements will be directed by Lanfranco Marcelletti. Performers include Gene Marie Callahan Kern, soprano; Todd Sisley, piano; Norman Thibodeau, flute; Pavel Vinnitsky, clarinet; Matthew Johnson, viola; Petia Kassarova, violoncello; and Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, violin.
Tickets are $20 for general admission and free with a Union ID. To reserve tickets, contact (518) 388-6785.
The concerts are made possible in part through funding from COMMUNITY ART$GRANTS, a program supported through the State and Local Partnership Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, and The Arts Center of the Capital Region.
In residence at the Schuyler Mansion and Schenectady County Community College, Musicians of Ma’alwyck performs regularly with concert series in upstate New York and presents programs specializing in the music of the 18th and 19th centuries.
For more information, visit: http://www.musiciansofmaalwyck.org.