Fusion String Ensemble performs in the Greater Chicago area!

Fusion String Ensemble
Kadar Qian, Music Director

presents:

THE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Taiwanese Community Fellowship Church
1420 S. Meyers Road
Lombard, IL 60148

Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 7:30pm
FREE

CONCERT PROGRAM

Salut d'Amour, Op.12 by Edward Elgar

Aurica Duca, violin & Kadar Qian, piano

Concertino pour Flûte, Op.107 by Cécile Chaminade

Rebecca Arnold, flute

Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9 by Georg Philipp Telemann
I. Largo
II. Allegro
III. Andante
IV. Presto

Clinton Dewing, viola

~ INTERMISSION ~

Symphony for Strings Opus 118a from String Quartet No. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich

I. Andante

Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060R (performed with 2 Violins) by Johann Sebastian Bach

I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Clinton Dewing & Aurica Duca, violins

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE IS:

First Violins

Janet Martins
Flora Lee
John Lyneis

Second Violins

Miriam Raffeld

Abe Dewing

Viola

Kim Etingoff

Sarah 
Joanne Ostrander

Cello

Kevin Hedrick

Alex Revoal

Bass

Nate Haggett

Violin Soloists

Clinton Dewing

Aurica Duca

Viola Soloist

Clinton Dewing

Flute Soloist
Rebecca Arnold

Conductor, Pianist
Kadar Qian

SPECIAL THANKS

Ashley Sullivan, Craig, Kyle & Siena Dewing, Mom & Dad, Rev. Evrol Officer, Fritz Winegardner, UnityBoston, John W. Sears, Jane Chen, the fabulous soloists and our wonderful audience!

BENEFACTORS

Jane Chen
John W. Sears

SPONSORS

Taiwanese Association of America Greater Chicago Chapter (TAAGCC)

Formosan Association for Public Affairs - Illinois Chapter (FAPA-IC)

Global Education Fund (GEF)

THE EUROPEAN COLLECTION Digital Concert Program

Fusion String Ensemble 

Kadar Qian, Music Director

presents:

THE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Christ's Church Longwood (UnityBoston)

70 Colchester Street

Brookline, Massachusetts

Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 7:30pm
Suggested Donation of $8

CONCERT PROGRAM

Salut d'Amour, Op.12 by Edward Elgar

Abe Dewing, violin & Kadar Qian, piano

Concertino pour Flûte, Op.107 by Cécile Chaminade

Rebecca Arnold, flute

Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9 by Georg Philipp Telemann
I. Largo
II. Allegro
III. Andante
IV. Presto

Clinton Dewing, viola

~ INTERMISSION ~

Symphony for Strings Opus 118a from String Quartet No. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich

I. Andante

Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060R (performed with 2 Violins) by Johann Sebastian Bach
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro

Clinton Dewing & Aurica Duca, violins

FUSION STRING ENSEMBLE IS:

First Violins

Janet Martins
Flora Lee
John Lyneis

Jeff Bezanson

Second Violins

Miriam Raffeld

Abe Dewing

Klenda Martinez

Viola

Kim Etingoff
Joanne Ostrander

Cello

Kevin Hedrick

Katherine Miller
Amy Nolan

Bass

Nate Haggett

Violin Soloists

Clinton Dewing

Aurica Duca

Viola Soloist

Clinton Dewing

Flute Soloist
Rebecca Arnold

Conductor, Pianist
Kadar Qian

SPECIAL THANKS

Ashley Sullivan, Craig, Kyle & Siena Dewing, Mom & Dad, Rev. Evrol Officer, Fritz Winegardner, UnityBoston, John W. Sears, Jane Chen, the fabulous soloists and our wonderful audience!

BENEFACTORS

Jane Chen
John W. Sears

PROGRAM NOTES

Salut D’Amour, Op. 12

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it "Liebesgruss" ('Love’s Greeting') because of her fluency in German. When he returned home to London on September 22 from a holiday at the house of his friend Dr. Charles Buck, in Settle, North Yorkshire, he presented it to her as an engagement present.

Concertino pour Flûte, Op.107

Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

This piece was composed in 1902 for flute and orchestra and was commissioned by the Paris Conservatoire in 1902, presumably as an examination piece for flute students. Among flautists, legend has it that Chaminade wrote the Concertino to punish a flute-playing lover after he left her to marry someone else, wanting to make a piece so fiendishly difficult that he could not play it (though he supposedly did manage). However, Chaminade had married a music publisher the year before the piece was commissioned, which lessens the validity of the legend.

Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681- 1767)

Of Georg Philipp Telemann's surviving concertos, this piece is among his most famous, and still regularly performed today. It is the first known concerto for viola, was written circa 1716–1721 and contains four movements.

Symphony for Strings Opus 118a from String Quartet No. 10 

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, op. 118, was composed in 1964. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet and is dedicated to his close friend Mieczysław (Moisei) Weinberg. We are performing just the first movement of the string quartet arrangement.

Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060 

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Neither the date of composition nor of the first performance is known. This concerto was originally written for solo violin and oboe, with string orchestra and continuo; the only surviving score, however, is of Bach’s own arrangement as a concerto for two harpsichords.