The Meeting House Chamber Music Festival will bring its successful 2018 season to a close with fanfare befitting the occasion. Performing in the exciting and varied program will be horn player Clark Matthews, violinist Audrey Wright, and the eminent Cape Cod pianist and artistic director Donald Enos, who founded this longest-running Cape Cod music festival 45 years ago. The concert will be given at the festival’s principal venue, Church of the Holy Spirit in Orleans. Tickets can be purchased at the door or reserved in advance by calling 508.896.3344 or emailing [email protected]. Tickets: $25 (under 18 free).
A selection of delightful and historically significant works will mark the celebratory mood. Fantasy for Solo Horn by Malcolm Arnold—the prolific 20thcentury English composer and Oscar-winning producer of more than 100 film scores—is esteemed by critics and fans for its brilliant expression of both joy and grief. Another piece for solo horn—a sparkling, fast-paced work by the contemporary British composer Alan Abbott— strongly evokes the instrument’s origins in the actual animal horns used for calls during the stages of a hunt. In Brahms’ Horn Trio, Op. 40, the horn will be joined by the violin and piano and engage in a musical conversation inspired by the beauty and tranquility of the Black Forest. Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, an early work by this great composer, is regarded as transformational in its technical difficulty, structure, and emotive power. This varied program also includes works by Richard Strauss, aleading late Romantic/early modern German composer; the important 20thcentury Argentine composer Alberto Evaristo Ginastera; the 20thcentury Czech American composer Václav Nelhýbel; and the contemporary American composer and teacher Eric Ewazen.