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1995 Season
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FLOURISHING • IN • LOS ANGELES

Beauty, inspiration, conflict, challenge–this season we celebrate and illuminate life in Southern California with four world premieres by composers living in Los Angeles. As always, Pacific Serenades honors these moving, lyrical new works, placing them side-by-side with beloved classics by Bach, Fauré, Brahms, and Beethoven. The composers? Every one of them an esteemed performer, they bring the player's sensibility of what makes music beautiful to their own compositions. The performers? They include principal players of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony, and the Long Beach Symphony. 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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OUR AUDIENCE IS GROWING...

Our audience grew by 20% last season, proving that the beauty, the intimacy, and the vitality of Pacific Serenades is what music lovers want. We returned triumphant from an inspired and well-received Carnegie Hall debut in September. Performances from last season's concerts were broadcast on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," heard across the country. Our Private Home concerts consistently sell out. Music that we have commisioned is being heard throughout the country in performances by other ensembles.

AND VALUES US...

The word 'beautiful' falls short of the experience..."

–a listener at our Carnegie Hall.

It doesn't get any better than this!

–a listener, overheard at a Biltmore Hotel concert

FOR MUSIC AS IT IS MEANT TO BE HEARD

The programming practices of Pacific Serenades ought to provide a model for any chamber music series. (The new work's) lyrical flights-mellow, nocturnal, Bartókian-are never far away.

–Los Angeles Times
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handel
George Frideric Handel
faure
Gabriel Fauré
carlson
Mark Carlson
kibbe
Michael Kibbe
steinmetz
John Steinmetz
kestenbaum
Myra Kestenbaum
Concert
1
Carnegie Hall Recital
Saturday, September 24, 1994, 2AM (Weill Recital Hall)
Robert Aldridge: Three Folksongs
Mark Carlson: Piano Quartet
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Gary Gray, clarinetRoger Wilkie, violinConnie Kupka, viola, violinRoland Kato, violaDavid Speltz, celloAyke Agus, piano, violin
Concert
2
Passion knows no country
Sunday, February 12, 1995, 8PM (Home of Allen & Jane Fink in Burbank)
Sunday, February 12, 1995, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 11, No. 4
Michael Kibbe: Quartet in C minor, Op. 124
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15
Miwako Watanabe, violinRoland Kato, violaDavid Speltz, celloAyke Agus, piano, violin
Concert
3
The soul of chamber music-strings and beyond
Sunday, March 19, 1995, 8PM (Home of David & Helene Rottapel in Sherman Oaks)
Sunday, March 19, 1995, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Sunday, April 9, 1995, 2PM (The UCLA Faculty Center)
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17
Mark Carlson: Six Bagatelles
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127
Margaret Batjer, violinConnie Kupka, viola, violinVictoria Miskolczy, violaDavid Speltz, celloMark Carlson, flute
Concert
4
The Late Romantic and the romantic 20th century
Sunday, April 23, 1995, 8PM (Home of John & Barbara McLoughlin in Brentwood)
Sunday, April 23, 1995, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Myra Kestenbaum: Quartet
Frank Martin: Ballade for flute and piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata in E minor, Op. 38
Mark Carlson, fluteGary Gray, clarinetDavid Speltz, celloJoanne Pearce Martin, piano
Concert
5
Baroque visions and contemporary reflections
Sunday, May 21, 1995, 8PM (Storyopolis in Beverly Hills)
Sunday, May 21, 1995, 2PM (Biltmore Hotel)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1030b
Wolfgang Mozart: Sonata in B flat major for bassoon and cello, KV 292
John Steinmetz: Mixed Blessings
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001
Georg Frideric Handel: Concerto a Quattro in D minor, HWV 361
Allan Vogel, oboeKenneth Munday, bassoonRoger Wilkie, violinDavid Speltz, celloOwen Burdick, harpsichord, organ