Dear All,

Writing to share with you the information for two upcoming January shows.

On Monday, January 23rd, I will be joined by my great friends and colleagues Alexandra Honigsberg and Jed Distler for our debut performance as ‘Wolf’s Gang’ for the ‘Classical at the Cornelia’ series at the Cornelia Street Cafe. The program will feature Mozart’s ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio for clarinet, viola, and piano, Jed performing Alvin Currans’ For Cornelius (1982) for solo piano, and Jed and I engaging in a rather randy version of the 2nd movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. We’ll also freely improvise at the end.

Here’s a little history about the ‘Kegelstatt’ (thanks to Alexandra)

Written for his friends, the Jacquin family, for their intimate house concerts in Vienna (with Mozart on viola), this piece is the first of its kind scored for these instruments, breaks many standard musical conventions of tempi and forms (including a 7-part, multi-rondo finale with piano intermezzi), and helped raise the clarinet, a new instrument, to prominence. Its instrumentation is often swapped around to suit the musicians available on a particular occasion, as Mozart did, but this is the original. It is said to be all about delicacy, dialogue, and intimacy (“Kegelstatt,” “Skittle Alley,” added by others after the fact due to improbable tales of Mozart’s gaming during its composition).”

The performance will be held at the Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, January 23rd at 8:30 PM.

This’ll be fun

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Boston-based guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan will once again perform my composition A Child Sings At Thanksgiving as part of his New Lullaby Project. I am delighted that Aaron is getting such great mileage out of this piece, and I hope it continues to bring him joy and success. The concert will also feature works by Boyadjian, Takemitsu, Fletcher, and a Boston Premiere of Upward (2011) by John McDonald.

The performance will be held at the Church of the Advent Library, Boston, January 27th at 8PM.

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If you’re in the area(s), please consider stopping by one, or both, of these performances.

Thank you again for your continued support.

Demetrius

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