Chamber Music Palisades (CMP) presents a rare West Coast joint appearance by internationally renowned clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy, son of legendary pianist/conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, and celebrated Boston-based violist Scott Woolweaver, on Tuesday, January 27, 8 p.m., at St. Matthew’s, 1031 Bienveneda. CMP co-founders/co-artistic directors Susan Greenberg, long-time flutist with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and noted pianist Delores Stevens also perform with Ashkenazy and Woolweaver in a program of works by Schumann, Schmitt, Villa-Lobos, Uhi, Bernstein and Bruch. KUSC’s Alan Chapman will host the affair. The program opens with the lighthearted M’rchenerz’hlungen (Fairy Tales), Op. 132, for clarinet, viola and piano, by German Romantic composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856). The Sonatine en Trio for flute, clarinet and piano by Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) reflects the sensibilities of the ‘French School.”Choros No. 2 for flute and clarinet, written in 1921 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), embraces the indigenous music of the composer’s native Brazil, perched on the tip of the New World. The unique and vibrant style of Austrian composer Alfred Uhl’s (1909-1992)’synthesizing neo-classicism, atonality, and serialism with traditional tonal and contrapuntal idioms”is captured in his Kleines Konzert (Little Concerto) for viola, clarinet and piano, which continues the program.’Adding another New World element is Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by multi-Emmy Award-winning conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, who remains one of America’s most influential composers.’ Concluding the evening is German composer Max Bruch’s (1838-1920) Four Pieces, Op. 83 for clarinet, viola and piano, which, like the concert’s opening work, falls into the German Romantic musical tradition. Tickets are $25; students with ID are free. Contact: 310-459-2070 or visit www.cmpalisades.org.
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