These concerts will be broadcast by Seattle’s classical radio KING-FM. Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, they will be available live at the KING-FM website, and on concert nights I will lay out the schedule and provide a link to the concert.
I’ll provide insights into the musicians if I happen to know them. I’ll also give a preview of the pieces to be played.
Zoltan Kodaly (pronounced “ko-DYE-ee”) was a contemporary of Bela Bartok, and they both filtered Hungarian folk melody through a dissonant prism. It was Zoltan who invented the method of teaching music to deaf students via hand signals that was featured in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. On Friday night, we’ll hear his Serenade for 2 Violins and Viola. It’s not as dissonant as Bartok, and you can actually hear the Hungarian folk ideas that drive the piece. Even for those who have problems with 20th Century composers, this is worth a listen.
Kodaly: Serenade for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 12, third movement
Good evening, Publius...do you have snow?