Hartford Symphony Orchestra to Present 'Snow, Moon and Flowers'

From the Hartford Symphony Orchestra: The Hartford Symphony Orchestra will present Snow, Moon and Flowers as a part of its 2016-2017 Sunday Serenades Chamber Music Series on Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 2 pm at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. A pre-concert gallery talk will take place at 1 pm.

Sunday Serenades Artistic Director and HSO Concertmaster Leonid Sigal will be joined by Eric Dahlin on cello, Margreet Francis on piano and Robert McEwan on marimba for this performance.

Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118, Takemitsu’s haunting Between Tides, and Debussy’s light and elegant Piano Trio in G Major offer a musical reflection of Utamaro’s Snow, Moon and Flowers series from the Edo period, on view together for the first time since the early 20th century. The performance will also feature two solo works by Keiko Abe for marimba, Wind Sketch and Dream of the Cherry Blossom.

Sunday Serenades chamber music concerts are presented in collaboration with the Wadsworth Atheneum as a musical counterpart to special exhibitions and the permanent collections. Concerts take place in the museum galleries and feature SundaySerenades Artistic Director and HSO Concertmaster Leonid Sigal and select HSO musicians. The Sunday Serenades chamber music series is made possible, in part, by the Helen M. Saunders Charitable Foundation Music Endowment at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Series sponsor is Farmington Valley Dermatology & Surgery.

Sunday Serenades single tickets are $30 each; $25 for HSO subscribers and Atheneum members. For tickets and information, visit here or call 860-987-5900.

Image: Kitagawa Utamaro, Cherry Blossoms at Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara no hana zu), c. 1793, Ink, gouache, gold and gold-leaf on bamboo paper, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1957.17.