Name: For the Love of Music and Words
Start: 2025-05-25T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-25T16:30:00-07:00
Location: Community Congregational Church, UCC

For the Love of Music and Words

Benicia Chamber Players

For the Love Of Music and Words: String Sextets and Concerto by Bacewicz, Schoenberg, and Strauss

Community Congregational Church, UCC

Benicia Chamber Players presents the season finale of its 2024–2025 series on May 24 and 25: For the Love of Music and Words, a program of visionary and virtuosic string ensemble works. The concert features Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Richard Strauss’ Capriccio, and Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for String Orchestra (1948). Schoenberg’s late-Romantic tone poem vividly brings Richard Dehmel’s haunting verse to life, exploring despair, forgiveness, and redemption through love. Strauss’ Capriccio, subtitled “A Conversation Piece for Music,” poses the timeless question: which holds greater power—words or music? Composed during World War II, it offers a poignant, lyrical escape. Bacewicz’s vibrant concerto—hailed as one of her masterpieces—fuses neoclassical clarity with modern intensity, marked by propulsive rhythms, haunting melodies, and a fiercely original voice that defies easy classification. This concert is FREE for students Program:Strauss - Capriccio, Op. 85Bacewicz - Concerto for String OrchestraSchoenberg - Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 Performers:Maya Cohon, violinHeeguen Song, violinNao Kubota, violaDmitri Yevstifeev, violaBrady Anderson, celloEvan Kahn, cello

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