Market Square Concerts presents Calefax Reed Quintet
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Temple Ohev Sholom North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110
On Thursday, January 23 at 8 pm at Temple Ohev Sholom the unique Calefax Reed Quintet will perform a program that will expand your perception of chamber music. This program will include Bach’s monumental “Goldberg Variations,” Ravel’s enchanting “Le Tombeau de Couperin” and Janacek’s whimsical Zdenka Variations.
Tickets are $30, $25 for seniors and $5 for college students. Tickets are free for school students and $5 for the accompanying parent or sibling. For tickets visit online http://www.marketsquareconcerts.org/#!january-23 or call 717 221-9599 / 717 214-ARTS; information is available at 717 221-9599. Remaining tickets will be available at the door.
Calefax, established over 25 years ago, is now in great demand worldwide, not least because of their unique instrumentation. Most importantly, the five musicians arrange, recompose and interpret music from eight centuries to suit their unique constellation: from early music to classical and jazz to world premières; in the hands of Calefax it all sounds fresh and new. The Amsterdam based ensemble has won a number of prestigious prizes and can be heard frequently throughout Europe and further afield in Russia, China, India, Turkey, Japan and the USA.
“Calefax - five extremely gifted Dutch gents who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet”. (The Times)
In March 2012 Calefax released a long-awaited CD and DVD of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant wrote of the Goldberg Variations: "The way the five reed players of Calefax produce music in new guises, but without a trace of friction, continues to leave audiences speechless..."
Calefax has released 17 CDs on the renowned German label MDG as well as for their own label RIOJA Records, all of which have been acclaimed by the international press: "A sublime sense of timing [...]. In short: here are five souls playing as one. These are … masters!"
On Friday, January 24, the Calefax Reed Quintet will present a performance and a masterclass for students at the Lebanon Valley College as part of Market Square Concerts educational program “Soundscape.”
The concert is sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. William Murray. The season sponsor is Capital BlueCross. A resident company of Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Market Square Concerts also receives support from the Cultural Enrichment Fund and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Complete information on Market Square Concerts’ 2013-14 season is at: www.marketsquareconcerts.org
Price: Tickets are $30, $25 for seniors, $5 for college students and free for k-12