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Press Release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE press@swmusic.org
July 11, 2013 Press contact: 626.685.4455 |
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Southwest Chamber Music
20th Summer Festival at The Huntington
continues August 10, 11, 24 & 25
with clarinetist Jim Foschia, tenor Jon Lee Keenan
and the Southwest Players
August programs include works by Wagner, Reger, Brahms
Britten, Henze, and Janácek
 Los Angeles--Grammy® Award-winning Southwest Chamber Music continues its Summer Festival at The Huntington August 10 & 11, and 24 & 25. Beginning with a rarity from Richard Wagner, his Albumleaf for Betty Schott, the program continues with
Max Reger's Quintet in A major for Clarinet & Strings, op. 46. The Albumleaf is a thank you note in the form of a solo piano score written by Wagner to his publisher. Max Reger's Clarinet Quintet, his last chamber work, is perhaps his best known and most beloved. The evening ends festively with the Brahms Horn Trio, op. 40. Featured performers are pianist Ming Tsu, clarinetist Jim Foschia, Lorenz Gamma, violin, and Andrew Pelletier, horn.
The final program of the summer, August 24 and 25, is an evening of music by three great opera composers of the 20th century: Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze and Leos Janácek. To celebrate Britten's centennial, Southwest Chamber Music offers two works for harp and voice, Eight Folksong Arrangements and A Birthday Hansel with tenor Jon Lee Keenen and harpist Alison Bjorkedal. Henze's L'autunno is an Italianate opera for winds featuring a cornucopia of instruments including piccolo, alto flute, oboe d'amore, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, and a Wagner tuba which are doubled by the traditional wind quintet. The summer concludes with Mladi for wind sextet, the wise remembrances of childhood from Czech master Leos Janácek.
 Pre-concert, three-course, gourmet dinners in the Huntington Tea Room are available to concert ticket buyers by prior reservation. Picnics on the lawn before the concert are encouraged. Sections of the Huntington Art Gallery are open to ticket holders prior to the concert and at intermission.
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Concert Information and Listing
Summer Festival at The Huntington
Concerts take place on the Loggia of The Huntington,
1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino
Tea Room Dinners by advance reservation only.
Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
For tickets or information, www.swmusic.org or
1-800-726-7147
Saturday and Sunday, August 10 and 11
Richard Wagner: Albumleaf for Betty Schott
Max Reger: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, Op. 146
Johannes Brahms: Trio for Violin, Horn & Piano, op 40
Saturday and Sunday, August 24 and 25
Benjamin Britten: Eight Folk Song Arrangements
Hans Werner Henze: L'autunno for Wind Quintet
Benjamin Britten: A Birthday Hansel
Leos Janácek: Mladi for Wind Sextet
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Location, Parking and Tickets
Location
All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and take place at the Loggia at The Huntington Library.
No children under 8 years of age will be admitted. Handicapped access is available. A limited portion of the Art Gallery and the grounds adjacent to the Tea Room and Loggia are open for Summer Festival patrons before the concert.
Lawn ticket holders may bring their own picnic and enjoy it under the stars. Pre-concert
dinners at The Huntington Tea room are also available to concert-ticket holders only. Dinner reservations can be made online or phone 800-726-7147 through Southwest Chamber Music when tickets are purchased (48-hour minimum notice required for dinner reservations).
The Huntington is located at 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, just south of Pasadena and only 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. For directions and a map, please check the web site. or call 1-800-726-7147.
Parking is included in the price of admission.
Tickets
Single tickets:
Loggia tickets are $65 per person.
Lawn tickets are $28 per person.
Loggia and Lawn tickets are unreserved festival seating. Lawn admission ticket holders must provide own blanket or lawn chair for seating. Student lawn admission tickets are available for only $10 with valid student ID.
(please use this number in all published materials).
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Southwest Chamber Music
638 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 201
Pasadena, CA 91101-2006
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626.685.4455
press@swmusic.org
www.swmusic.org
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