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2004 Festival

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  WEEK ONE  
  6/26 ~ 6/27  
     
  WEEK TWO  
  7/1 ~ 7/4  
     
  WEEK THREE  
       7/8 ~ 7/11        
           
  WEEK FOUR  
  7/15 ~ 7/18  
     
  WEEK FIVE  
  7/22 ~ 7/25  
     
  WEEK SIX  
  7/29 ~ 8/1  
     
  WEEK SEVEN  
  8/3 ~ 8/8  
     
  WEEK EIGHT  
  8/12 ~ 8/14  

 

WEEK ONE

June 26
Night in the Garden of Spain
Opening Night Gala Event

Saturday, 5:30 pm  
Tickets: $375, $500, $1,000, $2,500

Cocktail reception
Priority concert seating
Dinner catered by Le Potager
Dancing with the Gerard Carelli Orchestra

Latin Evenings I Concert Performance
Saturday, 7:00 pm 
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Cecile Licad, piano;
Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Peter Oundjian, conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov     Capriccio Espagnol
De Falla   Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Sarasate  Carmen Fantasy
Ginastera  Suite from Estancia


Opening Night is sponsored, in part, by generous support from The Citigroup Private Bank.

Latin Evenings I ~ Performance Only
Saturday, 7:00 pm  
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $71, $51, $36, $26

 

June 27
The French Court to the Cajun Kitchen
Sunday, 4:30 pm  
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $46, $36, $26

Rebel Baroque Ensemble and Paul Woodiel, violinist/fiddler and narrator, with Christopher Layer, bagpipes; Tracy Schwarz, Cajun fiddle and accordion;
Pete Sutherland, multi-instrumentalist; and Jesse Legé, accordion and vocals. 

Take a musical voyage of discovery from the 18th century court of Versailles to the bucolic French countryside, across the Atlantic to the shores and rivers of Acadia and New France, arriving finally in the land of the Louisiana Cajuns. Two hundred and fifty years later, the music still retains distinctive elements from those continental forebears. It's a classic American story of immigration and transformation told through words, song and instrumental music.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative


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WEEK TWO

July 1
Amelia Trio
with special guest Ida Kavafian
Thursday, 7:30 pm    
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $21, $16

Beethoven Trio No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 11
John Harbison     Trio (2003) (A Caramoor Co-
commission/World premiere)
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

A world premiere performance of a piano trio by one of America's greatest living composers is a gift to Caramoor from the dynamic young Amelia Trio.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.
Made possible in part by the Eva Petschek Newman Fund for Young Artists.

July 2
The Critics

eighth blackbird

Friday, 8:00, pm  
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $31, $26

Jennifer Higdon   Zaka (World Premiere)
Gordon Fitzell violence
David M. Gordon    Dramamine

Were we at the same concert?
New works being experienced for the first time by audience and critics alike, with reactions from the critics and discussion with composers, performers and audience after each piece--could new music be any more fun than this?

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative. 

July 3
Bernstein, Comden and Green ~ A Musical Celebration 
 

Saturday, 8:00 pm    Venetian Theater
Tickets: $81, $71, $56, $41, $31

Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolphe Green, music by Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, André Previn, and
Cy Coleman.

Orchestra of St. Luke's; Phyllis Newman and
Amanda Green, hosts; Sylvia McNair, Judy Kaye,
Jason Graae, and Hugh Russell;
Michael Barrett, conductor

Great show tunes from America's brilliant and prolific creators of Wonderful Town,
New York, New York, Just in Time, The Party's Over,
and Never, Never Land.

July 4
The Bernstein Beat
Family Concert I for kids 5 and up
Sunday, 4:30 pm    
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $21, $11

Orchestra of St. Luke's; Jamie Bernstein, narrator; Michael Barrett, conductor.  
Leonard Bernstein, master teacher and creator of many Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic, never presented a program about his own music. Now his daughter, Jamie, fills that gap as she and Caramoor's own Michael Barrett join the Orchestra of St. Luke's in an interactive exploration of the world of rhythm, with music from Lenny's West Side Story, On the Town, Mass, and other works.

Talujon                         
Parallel Performance for children under 5
Donor's Dining Pavilion

Tickets: $11

A four-member drum ensemble that performs classics and new music using traditional
- and not so traditional - instruments. 

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WEEK THREE

July 8
Sounds of Westchester
Music from Copland House 
Thursday, 7:30 pm      
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $21, $16

Works by Copland, Gershwin, Barber, Griffes, Tower, and Bermel.

The chamber ensemble Music from Copland House is named for the residence of Westchester's most important composer, whose works influenced so many of his contemporaries and the generations who came after him. This concert features works by Westchester County composers.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.


July 9

SOLD OUT
Spanish Love Songs
Latin Evenings II
Friday, 8:00 pm    
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $31, $26

New York Festival of Song
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano;
Joseph Kaiser, tenor;
Michael Barrett and Steven Blier, pianists

Works by Granados, Turina, Obradors, Luna, Fauré, Chabrier, as well as excerpts from Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder and Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, a mezzo with the most potent voice since Callas
- The New Yorker

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

July 10
Paride ed Elena
by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Saturday, 8:00 pm   

Venetian Theater
Tickets: $86, $76, $63.50, $48.50, $33.50

A Bel Canto at Caramoor presentation.
Krisztina Szabó, Amanda Borst, Joanna Mongiardo, Rachel Cobb; Orchestra of St. Luke's, Will Crutchfield, conductor; Claudia Zahn, director

Paride ed Elena tells the story of history's most consequential seduction: Paris carrying Helen off to Troy. Based on Ovid's intensely erotic retelling of the story, it may be the sexiest opera before Tristan. The score is known today mainly for the haunting aria
"O del mio dolce ardor;" which has remained a favorite concert item; the rest of the opera maintains the same sensuous beauty.  Semi-staged with English supertitles.

Bonus - Free - Pre-opera performance for Opera ticket holders only
6:00 pm in the Spanish Courtyard.

The Torch By Which All Asia Burned ~ Music inspired by the legend of Helen, by Cavalli, Monteverdi, Handel, Gluck, Schubert, Berlioz, Tippett and others, sung by members of the Caramoor Young Vocal Artists Ensemble.

Made possible, in part, by the Marilyn M. Simpson Opera Conductor's Fund and
the Marilyn M. Simpson Young Vocal Artists Fund.
Amanda Borst is the 2004 Festival Marjorie Carr Adams Young Vocal Artist.

July 11
Extreme Orchestra
Family Concert II for kids 5 and up
 
Sunday, 4:30 pm     
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $11
$21 Tickets are Sold Out.

Orchestra of St. Luke's; Jamie Bernstein, narrator; Michael Barrett, conductor. The symphony orchestra as a virtuoso instrument: the extremes of speed, dynamics and color demonstrate the virtuosity of the symphony orchestra in favorites from Tchaikovsky, Mahler and others.

Festival Brass                      
Parallel Performance for Children under 5
Donor's Dining Pavilion
Tickets: $11

Five Broadway musicians have created a program designed to introduce children to the characteristics of the brass instrument family, featuring musical compositions from classical to contemporary. 

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WEEK FOUR

July 15                                             
Introductions
Anna Polonsky, piano
Thursday, 7:30 pm   
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $21, $16

Shostakovich        Prelude and Fugue in E minor, 
Op. 87, No. 4
Mozart Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K. 281
Chopin  Mazurkas, Op. 7
Chopin  Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
Shostakovich 24 Preludes, Op. 34

Anna Polonsky performed with Anton Kuerti and the Caramoor Rising Stars in October 2003. Here she makes her Festival recital debut.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

July 16
Paquito D'Rivera Trio
Latin Evenings III

Friday, 8:00 pm 
    
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $31, $26 

The multi-Grammy award winning saxophone/clarinetist joins virtuoso colleagues
Alon Yavnei, pianist and Mark Summers, cellist, in offering his unique Cuba-flavored blend of classical music and jazz.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

July 17

SOLD OUT
Brahms, Beethoven and Bell
Saturday, 8:00 pm
  
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $61, $48.50, $38.50 $26, $16

This performance is Sold Out.  

Orchestra of St. Luke's; Joshua Bell, violin; Donald Runnicles, conductor.

Beethoven        Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62
Brahms  Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92  

Bell's tone breathes and lingers like a human voice.
-
San Francisco Chronicle

This concert is made possible, in part, by generous support from The Rudyard and Emanuella Reimss Memorial Fund of the Westchester Community Foundation.

July 18
Cendrillon
by Pauline Viardot (1904)

Sunday, 4:30 pm
   
Venetian Theater

Tickets: $36, $26, $16

A Bel Canto at Caramoor presentation.

Amanda Forsythe, Kelly Sawatsky, Audrey Babcock, Jeffrey Monette, John Zuckerman, Ivan Benitez, Melanie Helton; Rachelle Jonck, conductor/pianist;
Steven Tharp, director


Portrait of Pauline
A look in music, narrative and letters at the life of one of the most fascinating women in 19th century music. Pauline Viardot, operatic superstar and one of the most fascinating women in 19th century music, was also a composer. Portrait of Pauline is a short narrative of her long life, sparkling with music written for her and by her.

Cendrillon
Viardot's exquisite "salon operetta," is a retelling of the Cinderella story with Gallic wit, Italianate bel canto, and a quirkiness all her own. Semi-staged, performed in French with English supertitles and narration.

This performance is sponsored, in part, by generous support from The Citigroup Private Bank.
This performance is also made possible, in part, by the Marilyn M. Simpson Young Vocal Artists Fund.

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WEEK FIVE

July 22
Daedalus Quartet
 

Thursday, 7:30 pm      
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $21, $16

Caramoor's Ernst Stiefel String Quartet in Residence.

Haydn String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, No. 1
David Horne        Flight from the Labyrinth (World premiere)*
Beethoven  String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74 (Harp)

*The piece will exploit the virtuosity of this exciting young quartet to illustrate through music different types of flight. The 'captivity' within the Labyrinth will be portrayed by darker, more intense music, which will sharply contrast with the more ecstatic music depicting the flight from it.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

July 23
Don Quixote in Sierra Morena
by Francesco Conti
Latin Evenings IV  

Friday, 8:00 pm           
 
Venetian Theater

Tickets: $48.50, $38.50, $31, $23.50, $16

Bel Canto at Caramoor presentation.
Steven Tharp; Dennis Blackwell; Jessica Bowers;
Ryu-Kyung Kim; Kelly Sawatsky; Inna Dukach; Orchestra of St. Luke's; Juan Carlos Rivas, conductor; Melanie Helton, director

Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena captures one of the most riotous episodes of Cervantes' comic masterpiece. Francesco Conti's lively music ideally depicts the bizarre gallery of innkeepers, barbers, jealous lovers and improbable heroines that surround the Knight of the Woeful Countenance. With English supertitles

Bonus - 
Free pre-opera performance for Opera ticket holders only
6:00 pm in the Spanish Courtyard.

Tilting at Windmills samples Quixotic music by Purcell, Telemann, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Ibert (and yes, something from Man of La Mancha). Sung by members of the Caramoor Bel Canto Soloists.

Made possible, in part, by the Marilyn M. Simpson Opera Conductor's Fund and the Marilyn M. Simpson Young Vocal Artists Fund.

July 24
First Symphonies
Saturday, 8:00 pm   
Venetian Theater

Tickets: $61, $48.50, $38.50, $26, $16

Orchestra of St. Luke's; Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano; Michael Barrett, conductor.

Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major,
Op. 21 (1800)
Shostakovich        Symphony No. 1 in F minor,
Op. 10 (1924) 
Bernstein  Symphony No. 1 (Jeremiah) (1942) 

A performance of the first symphonies of three young composers, at the beginning of their careers, all in their twenties, and all looking to the future at the most optimistic time of their lives.

July 25
Peter and the Wolf
Family Concert III for kids 5 & up
Sunday, 4:30 pm            
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $21, $11

Orchestra of St. Luke's; Peter Oundjian, narrator; 
                                                                                                    Michael Barrett, conductor.
                                                                                                    Prokofiev's perennial children's favorite.

 SOLD OUT
Peter and the Wolf and Other Tales                   
Parallel Performance for Children under 5
Sunday, 4:30 pm
Donor's Dining Pavilion
Tickets: $11


Performed by a woodwind quintet, mime and storyteller.  The program explores the magic
of music by using the imagination to compose drama, matching the characters with musical themes.

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WEEK SIX

July 29
Claremont Trio
Thursday, 7:30 pm    
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $21, $16

Schumann        Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80
Suk  Elegie, Op. 23
Ravel  Piano Trio in A minor (1914) 

The Claremont Trio, winner of the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, received the very first and extremely prestigious Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award in December 2003. This is their Caramoor debut performance.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

July 30
St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble

with special guest artist Jeffrey Swann, piano
Friday, 8:00 pm     
 
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $31, $26

Liszt  Malédiction for Piano and String Quartet
Franck          Quintet in F minor for Piano and Strings  
Glinka  Gran Sestetto Originale in E-flat Major 

Acclaimed for its mastery of a diverse repertoire spanning the Baroque to the contemporary, the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble consists of virtuoso artists who together form the artistic nucleus of the Orchestra of St. Luke's.

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

July 31
Generations of Jazz
Jazz Festival I
Saturday, All Day
     
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $51, $46

Joe Lovano, Artistic Director

2:00 Pete Malinverni Trio featuring Leroy Williams
3:00 Lewis Nash Trio
4:00 Kenny Garrett with the Lewis Nash Trio
5:00 John Abercrombie Quartet
6:00 Dinner Break
8:00 Kurt Elling
9:00 Hank Jones 86th Birthday Celebration 
        Joe Lovano with the Hank Jones Trio
        Special guest, Frank Wess

Seven-time Grammy nominee Kurt Elling is the hippest young jazz vocalist working today.  Joe Lovano pays tribute to the great jazz master, pianist Hank Jones, who has made music with the greatest players of the last six decades.

Come and go as you please through six jazz sets in this all-day jazz fest.

August 1
Masters of Music
All Mozart
Sunday, 4:30 pm
    
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $46, $36, $26

Tokyo String Quartet; Misha and Cipa Dichter, pianos; Carol Wincenc, flute.

                            Sonata in F Major for Piano, four hands, K. 497
                           Quartet in D Major for Flute and Strings, K. 285   
                           Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448
                           String Quartet No. 23 in F Major, K. 590
 

This performance is sponsored, in part, by generous support from The Citigroup Private Bank.
Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

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WEEK SEVEN

August 3, 4, and 5
Cabaret at Caramoor
Karen Mason ~ Takin' A Chance On Love
Tuesday       
Wednesday      
Thursday   
Donor's Dining Pavilion
Dinner at 6:30 with Performance at 8:30 - Tickets: $111
Performance only at 8:30 seating at 8:15 - Tickets: $56

All cabaret seating with complimentary champagne.

The Broadway star sings her favorites classic American songs.

August 6
Ysa˙e Quartet
Friday, 8:00 pm 
     
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $31, $26

Beethoven  String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 (Serioso)
Schumann         String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41
Franck  String Quartet in D Major 

The highly acclaimed Ysa˙e Quartet is one of Europe's pre-eminent ensembles.

Post-Concert Bonus
Late Night in the Spanish Courtyard
François Salque, cello Kry?tof Maratka - Voja Cello
The audience is invited to remain and attend this special preview performance of the up-coming week-long Czech Celebration which will be introduced by Peter Oundjian and composer-in-residence, Kry?tof Maratka.

This performance is sponsored, in part, by generous support from The Citigroup Private Bank.
Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

August 7
Jazz Festival II
Count Basie Centennial Celebration
Saturday, All Day
    
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $51, $46

Joe Lovano, Artistic Director

2:00 Jazz Composers Collective
3:00 Trio Da Paz
4:00 Sheila Jordan Quartet
5:00 Phil Wilson's Berklee Rainbow Band plays Count Basie
6:00 Dinner Break
8:00 Count Basie Centennial Celebration with Jon Faddis and
        The Jon Faddis All Stars and special guests 
        Benny Powell and Frank Foster

The incomparable Basie and the Basie band is remembered and celebrated by leader and trumpeter Jon Faddis. Basie's band swung like no other, and Faddis and company will swing through two sets to close out another superlative day at the Caramoor Jazz Festival.

Come and go as you please through six jazz sets in this all-day jazz fest.

August 8
Masters of Music
Russell Sherman, piano
Sunday, 4:30 pm
    
Venetian Theater
Tickets: $46, $36, $26

Liszt Sonetto del Petrarca, No. 104 
in E Major
  Etudes d'exécution transcendante- Selections 
  Les jeux d'eaux ŕ la Villa d'Este   
Schubert-Liszt           Soirée de Vienne   
Mozart-Liszt  Réminiscences de Don Juan   

Russell Sherman's rare recitals are major musical events. The reclusive Boston-based pianist is:

"by any measure, one of the truly extraordinary pianists before the public."
--The New York Times

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

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WEEK EIGHT

Celebrating Two Centuries of Czech Music
Three concerts featuring the music of five Czech composers in celebration of the 150th year since the birth of Janácek and commemorating Dvorák in the 100th year since his death. Kry?tof Maratka is composer-in-residence and will participate as pianist in his own piano quartet Exaltum. His piano trio will also be performed and Otisk will have its world premiere performance on August 14. Peter Oundjian and Kry?tof Maratka will introduce this repertoire to the Caramoor audience.

August 12
Chamber by Czechs I
Caramoor Virtuosi
Thursday, 7:30 pm
   
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $21, $16

Featuring the Caramoor Virtuosi (Edward Arron, Denise Djokic, Frank Huang,
Max Mandel, Leigh Mesh, Adam Neiman, Ayano Ninomiya, and Erika Raum),
with special guest artists Karine Lethiec and Kry?tof Maratka.

Dvorák  Terzetto in C Major for two Violins and Violas, Op. 74 
Smetana           Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 15  
Maratka  Exaltum for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Janácek  String Quartet No. 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) 

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

August 13
Chamber by Czechs II
Caramoor Virtuosi
Friday, 8:00 pm
     
 
Spanish Courtyard
Tickets: $31, $26

Janácek Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for Cello and Piano  
Martinu          Madrigals for Violin and Viola  
Maratka Anthologie des reves for Piano, Violin and Cello 
Dvorák Quintet in G Major for Two Violins, Viola, Cello and Bass, Op. 77 

Chamber Music at Caramoor is underwritten, in part, by the Ernst Stiefel Chamber Music Initiative.

August 14
Festival Finale
Celebrating Two Centuries of Czech Music
Saturday, 8:00 pm
     
Venetian Theater

Tickets: $61, $48.50, $38.50, $26, $16

Orchestra of St. Luke's; Carter Brey, cello;
Peter Oundjian, conductor.

Janácek Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
Maratka Otisk, (A Caramoor Co-commission/World premiere)
Smetana         The Moldau (from Má vlast)
Dvorák  Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in
B minor, Op. 104

Assistance for the Czech Celebration has been provided by the Czech Center New York, www.czechcenter.com.

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