![]() We will post a Friday 08/18/23 to buy the album if you would like to attend but can't come by the store until the event day. Fans will also receive a commemorative poster of the event. Starting Friday, August 18th, you can buy your copy of ‘Pretty Little Poison’ here and get a wristband to attend the event-one wristband per item per person.⠀Ģ. Pianist Scott Cuellar’s sparkling work at the Steinway keyboard blended perfectly with the burnished, mellow sound from Kim’s cello, especially during the moving Chopin melody in the second movement.Friends, we are happy to help celebrate the release of Warner Records debut album, #PrettyLittlePoison,, 18 with an intimate performance & signing! ⠀ġ. Pianist Jeffrey Sykes accompanied the string trio of violinist Ellen dePasquale, violist Bruce Williams and cellist Jonah Kim.Īnother concert highlight was the performance of Fryderyk Chopin’s Sonata for cello and piano, one of the few pieces Chopin composed for an instrument other than the piano.Ĭellist Kim knew the music so well he only briefly glanced at the score, playing with confidence and polis. The joy of this inner life radiated throughout the piece, all the way to the frenetic climax. The players’ talents and long experience accounted for a glistening performance with glowing intonation. The chamber music masterpiece, lasting 45 minutes, presented plenty of inner-life musings, like Brahms’ symphonies do. Only the Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet No. ![]() The performance won over the audience of 405 people at Trinity Baptist Church. Kennedy’s 1962 Rice University speech (“We choose to go the moon.”), to the the Apollo 11 launch countdown, to control room communications (“Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston.”) and ending with Neil Armstrong’s famous first words from the lunar surface. The music included narration from two of the young players, spanning the period from John F. The performance at San Antonio’s Trinity Baptist Church marked the 50th anniversary of the night of man’s first footsteps on the moon. ![]() Tom Reel /Staff photographer Show More Show LessĪs splendid as the professional musicians performed in the Cactus Pear Music Festival’s fourth and final main program Saturday night, it was the festival’s student ensemble that practically stole the show.Ĭalling themselves Opuntia Opus 7, the festival’s seven 2019 Young Artist Program musicians performed a world premiere piece, commissioned by the festival, aimed at the heavens, titled “Small Step, Giant Leap: A Lunar Fantasy,” by Rhode Island composer Judith Lynn Stillman. The teenagers have been working on a concert program that will include the world premiere of “Small Step, Giant Leap: A Lunar Fantasy” on the anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s moon walk. Violinist Emily Rivera, 16, works with her fellow musicians in the Cactus Pear Music Festival’s Young Artist Program. Tom Reel /Staff photographer Show More Show Less 5 of5 ![]() Bemis, 16, is one of seven teen-aged fellows in the Cactus Pear Music Festival’s Young Artist Program. Riley Bemis concentrates on his viola during a rehearsal. Musicians in the Young Artist Program of the Cactus Pear Music Festival rehearse “Small Step, Giant Leap: A Lunar Fantasy.” Tom Reel /Staff photographer Show More Show Less 4 of5 Tom Reel /Staff photographer Show More Show Less 3 of5 The musicians will premiere the piece on the anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon. Pianist Elisabeth Wang, 18, and the rest of Optunia Opus 7, the Cactus Pear Music Festival’s Young Artist Program ensemble rehearse “Small Step, Giant Leap: A Lunar Fantasy. Tom Reel /Staff photographer Show More Show Less 2 of5 One of the works they will play in their festival concert is “Small Step: Giant Leap: A Lunar Fantasy,” which was commissioned from composer Judith Lynn Stillman. Musicians in the Cactus Pear Music Festival’s Young Artist Program rehearse at Trinity Baptist Church.
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