cham·ber mu·sic
/ˈCHāmbər ˌmyo͞ozik/
Noun: Instrumental music played by a small ensemble, with one player to a part.
Or perhaps the poet Goethe put it more poetically when he said, “It is a musical conversation played by several musicians. One hears rational persons conversing together … gains something from their discourse and becomes acquainted with the peculiarities of their different instruments.” In other words, the perfect civilized antidote to a stupid, narcissistic world.
So where does one find this magic elixir? This week, you’ll discover it in chambers both familiar and new.
Start at the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul, elegant home the Schubert Club’s free Thursday lunchtime concerts. This week it’s the Isles Ensemble, a group that makes its musical home base at Lake of the Isles Lutheran in Minneapolis. Saturday afternoon they launch a new venture in a venue not usually known for classical music: Crooner’s Supper Club. It’s the start of a new series presented by the Schubert Club and hosted by soprano Maria Jette.
Then on Sunday afternoon in New Ulm, ProMusica Minnesota turns the chapel at Martin Luther College into a time machine with 1930s Russia and America, an afternoon of Copland, Prokofiev and Gershwin. That’s what I’d call a Super Sunday!
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