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“It may have an air of nothingness, this machine for two instruments: there is nearly a year and a half of toil in it.” (Ravel on his Sonata for Violin and Cello)

We welcome you to listen to the eccentricities, intricacies and oddities of Ravel’s celebrated Duo, and to read Anthony Burr’s detailed essay on the swirl of figures that surround this work:  Dixieland jazz, Duchampian “Bachelor Machines,” the “Whirlwind of Death" circus showpiece, Murnau’s expressionist film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” and more. Also, we near the completion of our cycle of the entire Beethoven quartets with Opus 18 Nr. 4 in c-minor. And finally we will play Brahms’ melancholic, late Clarinet Quintet, one of his last compositions. Composer Carolyn Chen (currently holder of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin!) writes in our program about gardens and fog, fragments and ruins, Romantic love, Dürer’s Melancholia and the clarinet as a “shadow instrument.” Join us in puzzling over these musical mysteries and sonic miracles, listening through the past to the present moment, just as we do, absorbed in ineffable waves of sound energy.

PROGRAM:

Ravel, Sonata for Violin and Cello
Beethoven, String Quartet in c minor, Op. 18 Nr. 4
Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in b minor, Op. 115

No late seating.

For additional program information, please visit Camera Lucida's website: sdcamlu.org

Subscription and single tickets available at the UC San Diego Box Office. Ticket information: (858) 534-TIXS (8497). 

Additional Description:

Under the artistic directorship of UC San Diego distinguished professor and cellist Charles Curtis and anchored by regular featured performances by San Diego Symphony Concertmaster Jeff Thayer, Formosa Quartet violist and UCLA professor Che-Yen Chen, concert pianist Reiko Uchida, UC San Diego performance faculty and occasional guests, Camera Lucida has established a tradition of challenging, musically ambitious programs performed with the assurance of an established ensemble, with the added flexibility of changing instrumentation and guests from the international chamber music world.