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1994 Season
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Looking • Homeward

Inspiration, beauty, conflict, challenge-this season we illuminate and celebrate life in Southern California with four world premieres by composers with strong personal ties to our region. As always, Pacific Serenades honors these moving, lyrical new works, placing them side-by-side with cherished classics by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Beethoven. The composers? Two of them are women, all are first-class. The performers? They include principal players of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Pasadena Symphony, the Long Beach Sym-phony. Known worldwide for their style and skill, these musicians come together for our most exciting season ever.

–Mark Carlson, Artistic Director
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THOSE EYES, THOSE EYES

I love watching the performers play. You can see how much they feel the music by the way they move. Look at those faces! It's almost telepathicas if they are talking to each other without words. What a joy to hear-and see-such gifted performers!

–Our Audience

What a memorable evening! Not only is the music beautiful, but all of the people involved made steel so welcome.

–Our Audience

CONCERTS IN CONTEXT

The programming practices of Pacific Serenades ought to provide a model for any chamber music series. Held in intimate, hospitable surroundings, each concert places a newly commissioned work alongside examples of the standard chamber music repertory. And that's where contemporary chamber music belongs.

–Los Angeles Times

[The new piece] fit right in with the works flanking it, yet proved a highly original, distinctive statement.

–Los Angeles Times
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brahms
bach
carlson
french
pierce
lipkis
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January Concert
Sunday, January 23, 1994, 8PM (Home of Geraldine Schlein in Los Angeles)
Sunday, January 23, 1994, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Tania French: Silhouettes at Sunrise
Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Roger Wilkie, violin
David Speltz, cello
Joanne Pearce Martin, piano
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February Concert
Sunday, February 20, 1994, 8PM (Home of Allen & Jane Fink in Burbank)
Sunday, February 20, 1994, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Bohuslav Martinu: First Sonata for flute and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B flat major, Op. 11
Mark Carlson: Quartet
Mark Carlson, flute
Gary Gray, clarinet
David Speltz, cello
Ayke Agus, piano, violin
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March Concert
Sunday, March 27, 1994, 8PM (Home of Aleen Leslie in Beverly Hills)
Sunday, March 27, 1994, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Franz Josef Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 20, No. 4
Alexandra Pierce: String Quartet No. 2: Outcrops and Upshots
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet in B flat major, Op. 87
Margaret Batjer, violin
Sheryl Staples, violin
Roland Kato, viola
Michael Nowak, viola
David Speltz, cello
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April Concert
Sunday, May 1, 1994, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Wolfgang Mozart: Duo in G major, K. 423
Larry Lipkis: Dancing in Her Sleep
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Margaret Batjer, violin
Connie Kupka, viola, violin
Cynthia Phelps, viola
David Speltz, cello
Ayke Agus, piano, violin