The Art of Conversation in Concert March 4, 2007

THE ART OF CONVERSATION IN CONCERT

What a Neighborhood! presents Elisabeth Le Guin and the Orfeo Duo playing music by Haydn and Boccherini and readings from Dr. Le Guin’s extraordinarily imaginative musicological work, bringing to life the art of conversation as practiced in the eighteenth century. The performance will be Sunday 4 March at 4 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 164 West 100th Street just east of Amsterdam Avenue (1, 2, or 3 trains to 96th street or the M11 bus to Amsterdam and 100th Street). Donations are encouraged. A reception will follow the performance. For more information please call 212-222-2101.
The program will include:
Sonata for violin and piano in B-flat major by Luigi Boccherini
Sonata for cello and piano in F major by Boccherini (unpublished)
Trio in C major Hob. XV:27 for violin, cello, and piano by Franz Joseph Haydn
Performers will include Elisabeth Le Guin, cellist and musicologist, and the Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violinist, and Ishmael Wallace, pianist).
Elisabeth Le Guin is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University pf California and an internationally respected Baroque cellist. She is the author of Boccherini’s Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology, a winner of the Alfred Einstein Award, and a member of acclaimed west-coast early-music ensembles including Ensemble Galatea, the Artaria Quartet, and Philharmonia Baroque. This is a rare chance to hear Dr. Le Guin in New York City: her first performance here in twenty years.
Brother and sister Ishmael Wallace, pianist, and Vita Wallace, violinist, have performed together as the Orfeo Duo since childhood. Reviewers have praised their “magnificent performances,” saying “this kind of rapport is rare indeed” (Classics Today), and “Their interpretations are daring and fresh. These are performers I would pay good money to hear” (National Post).

Official Website: http://www.orfeoduo.com/neighborhood.html