Razzo Hall
92 Downing Street
Worcester MA 01610
Phone: 508-217-4450
Contact: Tracy Kraus
Email: [email protected]
Description:
This summer the WCMS festival is proud to present “A Quartet of Nations”. Four inspired programs, which capture through the intimacy of chamber music, the living essence of a country’s spiritual being, as reflected through the lens of musical genius. France, a world of joy, sensitivity and spiritual yearning as revealed by Rameau, Massenet, Satie, Messiaen, and Faure. The Americas, wild and dynamic and ever full of exploration from jazz and rock, to tango, to extravagant romanticism as shown through the eyes of Hendrix, Piazolla, Amy Beach and Samuel Barber. Germany, whose soul vacillates from perfection of balance to agonized passion in the works of Bach, Mozart and Brahms. Finally to Russia, in a journey through the inner and outer landscapes of this vast land with Borodin, Scriabin and Tchaikovsky.