Sunday, April 28

House opens at 1:30 PM
Concert begins at 2:00 PM

We appreciate your patience in advance, as lines may form at will call.

If you have already purchased your ticket, you will find it held under your name at WILL CALL.

If you have yet to pay for your ticket, we accept cash and credit cards.

VENUE:
Towson Unitarian Universalist Church
1710 Dulaney Valley Road
Lutherville-Timonium MD 21093

OVERFLOW PARKING (maps will be available at the MIGH Parking Lot)
1.5 miles south
Towson United Methodist Church
501 Hampton Lane, Towson MD 21286

A FREE SHUTTLE BUS WILL BE RUNNING
BETWEEN THE OVERFLOW PARKING LOT AND THE CONCERT HALL
BOTH BEFORE THE CONCERT AND AFTER.

Our staff will be available at both locations
to answer your questions and provide you with assistance.

Welcome to Music in the Great Hall's 40th Anniversary season!  This title, which takes its inspiration from the final movement of Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella, represents our exploration of the many kinds of love... romantic, star-crossed, brotherly, patriotic, and more. A very special Valentine's Eve cabaret show makes our 40th season a true celebration of love and the many diverse and mysterious forms it takes.

SUNDAYS at 2 PM

This year we present FIVE of our Sunday afternoon concerts and one SPECIAL EVENT!

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Music in the Great Hall
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Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 2 pm
Netanel Draiblate, violin & Lura Johnson, piano

MIGH Artistic Director Lura Johnson and Israeli violinist Netanel Draiblate, Concertmaster of the Annapolis Symphony, celebrate the upcoming release of their new CD with Azica Records. The program will open with Elgar's delicious Salut d'Amour and will include Mendelssohn's F Major Violin Sonata from 1838 and several other selections from the recording.  Love for humanity finds musical expression through John Williams' score to the 1993 epic film Schindler's List.

Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 2 pm
The Yale Gordon Competition Winner:
Stephen Dunlap, saxophone

Music in the Great Hall continues its support of young artists with its annual presentation of the Yale Gordon Competition Winner. This latest talent from the renowned Peabody Conservatory of Music has already come to attention as an orchestral soloist, a chamber musician, and a performer of new music. He has played under the baton of Lorin Maazel and is featured on an upcoming Naxos recording of Johan de Meij’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony.  Ned Rorem's Picnic on the Marne, the cornerstone of this program, is a loosely autobiographical work depicting two lovers and a romantic afternoon excursion through a set of seven waltzes. Audiences will enjoy getting to know the haunting, penetrating timbre of this instrument which so rarely finds itself showcased.

Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 2 pm
The Aeolus String Quartet

Since its inception, the all-American Aeolus Quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States, and has performed across the globe to great acclaim. This vibrant ensemble explores our Amoroso theme through the music of Beethoven's Quartet Op. 18, No. 1, whose slow movement is known to have been inspired by the crypt scene from Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Also on the program is Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3, written during a turbulent time during the composer's relationship with his future wife, Helene, whose father opposed the match.  The program will close with Ravel's Quartet in F Major.

Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 7 pm
Welcome to the Cabaret!
Duo Lalu presents

The ladies of Lalu deliver a playful backhand to the patron saint of Love in this hit show. Lara and Lura pour sophisticated musical cocktails spanning time, musical styles, and languages, enticing giddy audiences to hum along, dance, stand up and cheer!

This special event is not part of the subscription series.  Tickets must be purchased separately.  All tickets $25/adults and $20/seniors and subscribers.

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Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 2 pm
The Peabody Trio
Violaine Melançon, violin     Natasha Brofsky, cello     Seth Knopp, piano

Since winning the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1989, The Peabody Trio has established itself as an important presence in the chamber music world. Love for the homeland weaves its thread through this program, which features Shulamit Ran's Soliloquy (written for the Peabody Trio). This work tells a tale of grief over lost love in a musical language inflected by Ran's Israeli heritage. The second half of the program features Dvorak's beloved Dumky Trio, a testament to the composer's love of Slavic folk music.  Come experience the exotic flavors of distant lands!

Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 2 pm
Marina Piccinini, flute & Michael Sheppard, piano

Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading flute virtuosos, Marina Piccinini joins forces with Baltimore's own Michael Sheppard, a pianist of dazzling virtuosity. Their diverse program takes us on a tour of operas, novellas, and ancient Greek mythology, from Orfeus' expedition to the Underworld to bring back to life his dear departed Eurydice... to Undine, the water nymph, who longs to experience human love and to assume mortal human form... to the tragic tale of Don José, a young soldier who falls prey to the seductive charms of the fiery gypsy, Carmen, and meets his downfall.  These two dynamic artists will also perform a transcription of Strauss' soaring Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 18, written during the time when the composer fell in love with the soprano whom he would later wed.

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On Sunday, September 9, Music in the Great Hall presented a fabulous concert featuring the Bryant Park Quartet, in their first performance of three this year in Baltimore, joined by BSO concertmaster Jonathan Carney and MIGH Artistic Director Lura Johnson in a concert that had audiences on their feet!

Read Tim Smith’s glowing account of the afternoon here on his online weblog.

The festivities of the weekend began on Saturday night, when the sextet performed at a house concert at the home of one of our donors.  BPQ violist Nathan Schram gave some partygoers a little education in what a viola part looks like!

This could be YOUR house!  Consider underwriting a concert!

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Fantastic photographer and MIGH friend Geoffrey Aravanis took some splendid photos he was kind enough to share. Photos are available for purchase!

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with BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney

On January 16, 2011, Music in the Great Hall proudly presented young clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich, the 2010 winner of the Yale and Peggy Gordon Trust Concerto Competition held annually at the Peabody Institute of Music. Gleb and several colleagues from Peabody, pianist Hui-Chuan Chen and cellist Dorotea Racz, played a recital to include Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1, Zanelle (a solo clarinet piece written by another young rising star at Peabody, composer Viet Cuong), and the epic work Lerchenmusik by Polish composer Henryk Gorecki.

Tim Smith reviewed the concert for his blog in the Baltimore Sun and had these glowing remarks:

“Each year, the long-running concert series Music in the Great Hall shines a spotlight on a recent winner of the Peabody Conservatory’s Yale Gordon Concerto Competition. It’s a good way to keep up with some of the talent being honed at that school.

Last season, cellist Hans Kristian Goldstein’s MIGH recital easily revealed what had caught the favor of the competition judges. And last Sunday, clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich likewise made it very clear why he received a Yale Gordon award.

Not surprisingly, Kanasevich demonstrated considerable technical strengths in the concert, which he shared with some Peabody colleagues. He offered plenty of expressive nuance as well, especially in the one standard repertoire item on his program, the F minor Sonata by Brahms.

The most impressive aspect to the program, though, was the program itself. Daring to close with a ruminative, often glacial 40-minute score by the late Henryk Gorecki was a particularly daring touch (I hope the concert series doesn’t get complaints from audience members). The first half, which included the Brahms piece, also had its contemporary side, thanks to a work by Peabody undergrad Viet Cuong.”

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