TGIF, Aug 16, 5:30pm
Robert Marcus, clarinet and Edwin Light, piano, will once again delight us at our Friday concert with music by Dvorak, Milhaud, and Poulnec. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm, and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.
Program
Sonatina, Op. 100 (1893), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
I. Allegro risoluto
II. Larghetto
III. Scherzo: Molto vivace
iV. Finale: Allegro
Duo Concertant, Op. 351 (1956), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Sonata (1962), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
I. Allegro tristamente
II. Romanza
III. Allegro con fuoco
The Artists
Robert Marcus is delighted to return to the TGIF series after he and his wife, Ann, moved to Palm Springs California. A resident of Santa Fe for 10 years, he participated actively in the Santa Fe chamber music scene, having appeared frequently in TGIF programs as well as recitals at St John’s College, the Montage Chamber Music Society, and Music at Barcelona. He also was featured as soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Los Alamos Symphony. Although his primary career was in medicine, Dr. Marcus has been an active musician throughout his adult life in both orchestral and chamber music. His major orchestral affiliation was the Redwood Symphony on the San Francisco peninsula, with whom he appeared as soloist in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, the Concerto by Miguel del Aguila, “Gnarly Buttons” by John Adams, and “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” by Osvaldo Golijov. In 2015 he returned to the Redwood Symphony as soloist to play a transcription by Luciano Berio of the Brahms F minor clarinet sonata for clarinet and orchestra.
Edwin Light grew up in Copperhill TN where he had his first piano lessons with Dr. Otto Kern at age 5. In high school he continued his music studies with Oina Mitchell, who encouraged him to attend the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. At C-CM he completed his Bachelor and Master’s degree programs in piano with Herbert Newman.While piano at Western Illinois University he began the doctoral program in piano at Boston University. Near the completion of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, under the tutelage of Maria Clodes, he elected to stay on in Boston, where he taught at several community music schools and in the Humanities Department at Fitchburg State University. He coached German Lieder with Harold Heiberg in Vienna and French Melodie with Marguerite Meyerowitz at Juilliard. Edwin honed his skills over the years as a collaborative pianist: he performed in Thun, Switzerland for three summers with soprano Scharmal Schrock (Indiana University), and with Swiss singers in a workshop of American music. He toured in the U.S. with violinist Almita Vamos (Northwestern University).