Chamber Music Unbound
11-6-2008

On Friday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at Bishop Union High School, the Felici Trio celebrates 10 years in the Eastern Sierra with a festive concert with musical friends from the Eastern Sierra Chamber Orchestra and guest conductor Michael  Goodwin. Pianist Steven Vanhauwaert will be filling in for Wen-Ting Huang, who is currently on sick leave.   
The program features music by the immortal Ludwig van  Beethoven, the centerpiece being the cheerful Triple Concerto, a work for three solo instruments with orchestra.

The Felici Trio, celebrating its 10th anniversary in the Eastern Sierra, is presenting a performance highlighting the works of Ludwig van Beethoven tomorrow night in Bishop. Photo by John Wilson

In the Triple Concerto (the Italian verb “concertare,” from which the musical term “concerto” is derived, can literally mean both, to argue and to agree) the three solo instruments – piano, violin and cello – “play-fight” with the orchestra, in a manner that is at once highly entertaining  and at times combative.   
The two other Beethoven works on the program Friday night are the so-called “Kakadu-Variations” for piano trio and the “Egmont Overture” for  symphony orchestra.
Beethoven’s opus 84, the “Egmont Overture,” was composed in 1809 for the play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The subject of the music is the history and the heroism of the Count of Egmont, a historical personality. In the music, Beethoven expressed his own  political ideals, particularly the heroic exaltation of the sacrifice of a man condemned to death for having selflessly taken a strong stand against oppression.
Tickets are available online at  www.ChamberMusicUnbound.org, in Bishop at the Inyo Council for the Arts, or at the door on concert nights after 6:45.
Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students.