The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Andover Chamber Music

Julie Scolnick, Artistic Director, Andover Chamber Music

Continuing their celebratory season of programs which take their inspiration from literary works, Andover Chamber Music's, Andover, Massachusetts, next concert, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is titled after Milan Kundera's novel, and offers three light, alluring works that overflow with charm and sparkle.

Poulenc's Sextet for piano and wind quintet, written around 1932,  is both jazzy, infectiously fun, and filled with good cheer. William Bolcom's Fairytales for viola, bass, and cello, is an entertaining and clever work for the three lower strings based on the favorite fairy tales of the members of the trio for which is was composed.

The concert concludes with a cast of thousands (nine actually - it just will feel like thousands on their tiny stage) in Ludwig Spohr's Nonet, a rarely-performed, early 19th century melodic work for winds and strings, which brilliantly fulfilled the a commissioner's particular request that the work should be "written in such a way that each instrument would appear in its own character," with songlike passages of exceptional beauty.

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Natasha Brofsky, cello ~ Don Palma, bass

Lucy Chapman, violin ~ Dima Murrath, viola

Julie Scolnik, flute ~ Rob sheena, oboe

Michael Wayne, clarinet ~ Suzanne Nelson, bassoon

James Sommerville, horn ~ Nina Scolnik, piano

Sunday, November 6, 2011, 4:00 PM

West Parish Church, Andover, Massachusetts