Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra to Perform at New Britain Museum of American Art Sunday Music Series
The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra are to perform at New Britain Museum of American Art’s Sunday Music Series.
The concert, part of the Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra’s “‘We the People’ Immigrant Stories in Music” series, the Museum says, is,
Presenting the music of legendary German & Austrian composers who left a legacy on both continents. They became influential in establishing 20th-century American musical heritage: Hindemith by teaching at Yale, and Schoenberg at Universities in California. The concert will include Paul Hindemith’s “TrauerMusik” and Arnold Schoenberg’s “Verklarte Nacht.” Also in the program is Johannes Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello. The concert will feature the principal cellist of the Virtuosi, Zack Sears, in his debut as a soloist with the Virtuosi.
The concert, “American Influencers: Hindemith, Schoenberg, Brahms” is to be Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 3:00pm at the Museum.