Cafe Music
Sunday, October 4 at 3 pm
139 St. John’s Place, Park Slope
What’s the hook?
Allow yourself to be taken to London, back home to New York, then off Switzerland, and finally to a cocktail lounge in Minneapolis, in this musical odyssey! You’ll get warmed up with the sonorous melodies of Vaughan Williams, followed by the varied characters of Wilson’s Three Interludes; then the virtuosic interplay of Martinu, culminating in the jazzy, playful Cafe Music of Paul Schoenfield!
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Concert Program
Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Six Studies in English Folk Song (10’)
Richard Wilson, Three Interludes (5’)
Bohuslav Martinu, Duo no. 2 for violin and cello (12’)
Paul Schoenfield, Cafe Music (17’)
Artists
Kae Nakano, violin
Benjamin Larsen, cello
Hyungjin Choi, piano
Different Strings
Sunday, November 8 at 3 pm
139 St. John’s Place, Park Slope
What’s the hook?
What do the pipa, cello, and piano have in common? They all have strings! They also don’t get to play together very often in this combination, so come out and listen to some beautiful music you won’t get another chance to listen to anytime soon. Angel Lam, our former composer in residence, wrote ‘The heart is deeper than the ocean’ for the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2022, and it will receive its NYC premiere in this concert. Bright Sheng’s Three Folk Songs, written in the 1990’s for Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man, features a delightful interplay between the two instruments. And Richard Strauss’s Cello Sonata provides a grand, romantic conclusion to the program!
Concert Program
Angel Lam, The heart is deeper than the ocean (24’)
Bright Sheng, Three Folk Songs for Cello and Pipa (10’)
Richard Strauss, Cello Sonata in F Major, op. 6 (26’)
Artists
Julia Deng, pipa
Benjamin Larsen, cello
Dan Epstein, piano
Ivalas Quartet
Sunday, December 13 at 3 pm
139 St. John’s Place, Park Slope
What’s the hook?
Coming Soon!
Concert Program
Florence Price, Five Folksongs in Counterpoint (20’)
Richard Wilson, String Quartet no. 6 (27’)
intermission
Maurice Ravel, String Quartet in F Major (30’)
Artists
Ivalas Quartet
Reuben Kebede, violin
Adeline Baban, violin
Marcus Stevenson, viola
Pedro Sanchez, cello
Location
Concerts on the Slope is a monthly concert series performed at:
St. John's Episcopal Church
139 St. John's Place
Brooklyn, New York, 11217
Directions
139 St. John’s Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Subway Directions
Take the Q train to Seventh Avenue Station. Exit on the South side to Flatbush Avenue. Walk a half block to Seventh Avenue, then take a left and walk two short blocks to St. John's Place. Turn right and the Church is on your right.
Take the 2 or 3 train to Grand Army Plaza. Exit on the South Side to St. John’s Place. Walk along St. John's Place one block to Seventh Avenue. Cross the street and the Church is on the right.
Bus Directions
St. John's is also convenient to the Flatbush 41 and the Seventh Avenue 67 and 69 Buses.
