SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2024 AT 4 PM
MOTHERS DAY CONCERT
CHEE-YUN, VIOLIN ALESSIO BAX, PIANO
LUCILLE CHUNG, PIANO BRAD GEMEINHARDT, FRENCH HORN
“Clearly among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public.” — Gramophonen
“Exudes grace and poise at the keyboard” — Toronto Star
“At once playful and passionate” — Washington Post
"He anchored the Scherzo’s whirling dance with poetry and backbone."
— New York Times
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Parlance Chamber Concerts’s musical Mothers Day celebration will feature four tenderhearted works inspired by motherhood and children. Dvořák’s Songs My Mother Taught Me conjures an image of a young woman singing her child to sleep with a lullaby she learned from own mother.
2023-2024
SEASON
October 15, 2023
Lysander Piano Trio
November 12, 2023
Angel Blue, soprano
Bryan Wagorn, piano
December 3, 2023
Brentano String Quartet
Antioch Chamber Choir
January 14, 2024
Goldmund String Quartet
February 18, 2024
Candlelit Music of The Spirit
March 10, 2024
Richard Goode, Piano
Late Beethoven
April 7, 2024
Jordi Savall, Conductor
Hespèrion XXI
May 12, 2024
Mothers Day Concert
June 2, 2024
Mozart’s Double Concertos
LOCATION
At West Side Presbyterian Church
6 South Monroe Street
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
For map and directions, click here.
CONCERT AMENITIES
Wheelchair Accessible
Free Parking for all concerts
FEATURING
Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood is a nostalgic musical meditation on the dreams, desires, and adventures of childhood. The popular collection of short character pieces evokes children’s games, reveries about far-off places, and cozy evenings spent by the fireplace.
Ravel’s exquisite Mother Goose Suite summons the magical, mysterious worlds of classic fairy tales including Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, and Laideronnette, The Empress of the Pagodas.
The celebration will culminate with Brahms’s stirring Trio in E-flat for violin, horn, and piano, dedicated to memory of his mother, Christiane.
PROGRAM
Antonín Dvořák:
Songs My Mother Taught Me, arr. for violin and piano
Robert Schumann:
Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 for piano
Maurice Ravel:
Mother Goose Suite for piano 4-hands
Johannes Brahms:
Trio in E-flat, Op. 40 for violin, horn, and piano
Watch violinist Chee-Yun perform Fritz Kreisler’s “Recitativo and Scherzo”
Watch Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung perform Debussy’s En bateau
This program has been made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs from funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.