Chamber Music on the Mountain"
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The second annual Chamber Music on the Mountain will be held July 18-30 at the Millar Lodge and Dining Hall of Mt. Sequoyah, as well as the Fayetteville Public Library, the Thaden Performing Arts Center, Ozark Mountain Smokehouse and the Arkansas Academy of Arts. There will be a variety of performances from local and national classical and jazz artists. CMM’s artistic director is Department of Music associate professor of piano Tomoko Kashiwagi.
The theme of the festival this year is “Music That Moves Us,” says Kashiwagi which represents a story for each listener. The repertoire will include:
Arkansas composers: Philip Parker, William Grant Still
Women Composers: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Susan Mutter
Color Composers: William Grant Still, Astor Piazzolla, Julio Doming and more
Ukrainian Composer: Vasyl Barvinski
Performer Commissioned Piece: Susan Mutter’s “Song of Survival” for Cory Mixdorf and her son, Meyer
Baroque – Telemann Recorder and Flute Concerto
Classical – Weber Clarinet Quintet, Domenico Dragonetti Waltzes
Romantic/Modern – “Concertino for Flute, Viola and Bass” by Erwin Schuhoff; “Variations for Strings and Piano” by Vasyl Barvinski; Arthur Foote’s A Night Piece
Live Composers – William Bolcom, Ragtime; Mike Mower, Latin Sonata; Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, Quintet (a jazzy answer to Schubert’s Trout Quintet); Philip Parker, Grooves and many more
One such piece closest to Kashiwagi’s heart is the Ukrainian composer Vasyl Barvinsky (1888-1963). He was one of the first Ukrainian composers to receive international recognition after works were published worldwide, and he was the director of the Lviv State Conservatory of Music, respected as a teacher, composer and pianist. In 1948, the Soviet authorities deported Barvinsky to a labor camp and his music was publicly burned, but after his release, Barvinsky returned to Lviv in 1958 and spent the rest of his life trying to find his lost works. recreated, many of them from memory. . Some works published abroad survived.
Kashiwagi received the piano score of his “Sextet for Piano and Five String Instruments” from the Ukrainian Score Project. As she explains it, this particular piece was an incredible labor of love.
“When I received the score for Vasyl Barvinsky’s Sextet from the Ukrainian Score Project, they only sent me the piano score. I commissioned another musician to type the string parts from the score so we can do this piece.
“After the CMM performance at the end of this month and all the corrections are done, I plan to send the music to the Ukrainian Score Project and upload it to the International Music Score Library Project so that more people can access the play this piece.”
The piece will be performed on Thursday, July 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the Arkansas Academy of Arts and Saturday, July 30, at the Mount Sequoyah Center’s Millar Lodge at 7 p.m. No recording of this piece has been performed anywhere in the United States before, so don’t miss this opportunity to hear this masterpiece!
