Theme and Variations by SAR
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Thank you for visiting our page to raise money for "Theme and Variations," Some Assembly Required 's biggest endeavor to date! We're dedicated to providing one-of-a-kind events for a wide range of audiences, reinventing the format of a "classical" concert. We're excited to invite SEVEN of Boston's best wind players to help us play "Theme and Variations," a program featuring Oliver Caplan's Krummholz Variations, Stravinsky's Octet for Wind Instruments, and Schubert's "Trout" Quintet.
We're performing in three locations:
April 21 at 7:30pm - Salem Classical at Salem's Old Town Hall
April 22 at 7pm - Korean Church of Boston , Brookline, MA
April 23 (time TBA) - All Newton Music School , Newton, MA
Two of these three events are free and open to the public, and it's part of our mission to bring the music that excites us most to a wide audience. We'd love your help to make sure that this, our biggest program yet, will be a huge success!
Some Assembly Required is a collaborative effort between east coast artists to provide our audiences with unique musical experiences. At its core, we are trombonist Justin Croushore, hornist Justin Stanley, and pianist Cholong Park. Not accepting the limitations placed on us by the small amount of repertoire available to their instrumentation, Some Assembly Required starts by choosing music that they want to present and then finding a way to present the music meaningfully through arrangement and collaboration with others.
Krummholz Variations, by Oliver Caplan, a composer we featured back in October on our "Metal, Voice and Strings" program, was commissioned in part by SAR. From Caplan: "'Krummholz,'" German for 'crokked wood,' are twisted trees that serve as gateways to the alpine zone... High altitude landscapes are a paradigm for beauty in the face of harshness." We're delighted to be presenting this piece on Earth Day weekend!
Schubert's "Trout" Quintet will be performed in a nontraditional manner. Instead of violin, viola, cello, and double bass with piano, we'll be performing "Trout" with flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano. Fitting into our concept of theme and variations, the variation movement of this quintet quotes a melody from Schubert's Lied "Die Forelle" (The Trout). Stravinsky's aesthetically beautiful Octet for Wind Instruments is not programmatic, but what Stravinsky protégé Eric Walter White calls a "rediscovery of sonata form."
We anticipate that performing these pieces will be an amazing experience for the musicians and audience! The funds raised here - any money you donate - will go toward making sure our guests are well compensated for their fantastic musicianship and spreading the word about these events.
We're performing in three locations:
April 21 at 7:30pm - Salem Classical at Salem's Old Town Hall
April 22 at 7pm - Korean Church of Boston , Brookline, MA
April 23 (time TBA) - All Newton Music School , Newton, MA
Two of these three events are free and open to the public, and it's part of our mission to bring the music that excites us most to a wide audience. We'd love your help to make sure that this, our biggest program yet, will be a huge success!
Some Assembly Required is a collaborative effort between east coast artists to provide our audiences with unique musical experiences. At its core, we are trombonist Justin Croushore, hornist Justin Stanley, and pianist Cholong Park. Not accepting the limitations placed on us by the small amount of repertoire available to their instrumentation, Some Assembly Required starts by choosing music that they want to present and then finding a way to present the music meaningfully through arrangement and collaboration with others.
Krummholz Variations, by Oliver Caplan, a composer we featured back in October on our "Metal, Voice and Strings" program, was commissioned in part by SAR. From Caplan: "'Krummholz,'" German for 'crokked wood,' are twisted trees that serve as gateways to the alpine zone... High altitude landscapes are a paradigm for beauty in the face of harshness." We're delighted to be presenting this piece on Earth Day weekend!
Schubert's "Trout" Quintet will be performed in a nontraditional manner. Instead of violin, viola, cello, and double bass with piano, we'll be performing "Trout" with flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano. Fitting into our concept of theme and variations, the variation movement of this quintet quotes a melody from Schubert's Lied "Die Forelle" (The Trout). Stravinsky's aesthetically beautiful Octet for Wind Instruments is not programmatic, but what Stravinsky protégé Eric Walter White calls a "rediscovery of sonata form."
We anticipate that performing these pieces will be an amazing experience for the musicians and audience! The funds raised here - any money you donate - will go toward making sure our guests are well compensated for their fantastic musicianship and spreading the word about these events.
Organizer
Justin Stanley
Organizer
Boston, MA
