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Friday 6 - Saturday 14 May 2011

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Music in the Round is enormously grateful to all its funders, sponsors, supporters and Friends, without whom these concerts would not be possible.

Funders: Arts Council England | Mayfi eld Valley Arts Trust Key Fund Yorkshire | Sheffi eld City CouncilThe Lindsay Foundation

Supporters: Abbeydale Brewery

Lifelong Patrons: John Cowling | Kate DugdaleMaurice & Sheila Millward

Board Members: Paul Allen (Chair)David Brown | Jane Chapman | John Cowling

Barry Eldred | Simon Keefe | David MegginsonStephanie Pitts | David Richardson

Artistic Director: Angus Smith

Executive Director: Deborah Chadbourn

Project Manager: Tracy Bryant

Education & Outreach Manager: Polly Ives

Marketing Manager: Marty Mills

Project Co-ordinator: Daisy Swift

Finance Offi cer: Jayne Beatson

Education & Outreach Assistant: Chloe Miller Smith

Honorary President: Peter Cropper

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Welcome!Welcome to the May Festival 2011. Taking a theme of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, Ensemble 360 has devised a series of concerts that embraces music from the height of late classical and romantic styles through to exquisitely beautiful and vivid expressions of nationalist and modernist innovation.

Permeating through the festival is a special focus on the ways in which the evidence of contemporary letters can inform our knowledge of the composition and performance of this extraordinary repertoire. Our title, Intimate Letters, is inspired by the compelling story of Janáček’s Second String Quartet and we are especially delighted to be collaborating with Daniel Evans, the Artistic Director of Sheffi eld Theatres, in a new, semi-staged performance of this passionate masterpiece.

Gemma Rosefi eld, Ensemble 360’s new cellist, is curating a special day of events to commemorate the harrowing but ultimately uplifting story of the musicians of Terezín. And we very much hope to see lots of you at our Sunday café day as we evoke the grand spirit of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with music, dancing and cake!

On a personal note, it is a truly thrilling experience for me to be joining the wonderful team at Music in the Round and a very great honour to be following in the footsteps of Peter Cropper. If you are booking for a concert, please consider bringing a friend or two who you think may just discover, as I did when I attended the 2010 Festival, that special moment of revelation in the Music in the Round experience. We also specifi cally invite you to come along to a concert of music that you have never heard before. In the words of Alex Ross, the renowned music critic of The New Yorker magazine, “from time to time, the alien will suddenly become second nature, and you will feel a shade more free”.

Intimate Letters: Dramatic, moving and uplifting music from Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, 1804 - 1945

Ensemble 360 is Music in the Round’s resident ensemble. It brings together eleven world-class musicians to form one versatile group; fi ve string players, fi ve wind players and a pianist.

The enthusiasm, drive and musicality of each of the performers has proved a success with audiences across the UK as they fi nd themselves drawn into the performances both through the communicative and engrossing nature of their playing.

Ensemble 360 is a strong team and a group of friends who share a passion for the music; a passion which radiates through each performance.

During the May Festival the Ensemble is joined by a variety of their musical friends and collegues.

Ensemble 360 DiscountsDiscounts

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Claudia Ajmone-Marsan VIOLIN Naomi Atherton HORN Juliette Bausor FLUTE Judith Busbridge VIOLA Laurène Durantel DOUBLE BASS Amy Harman BASSOON Tim Horton PIANO Matthew Hunt CLARINET Benjamin Nabarro VIOLIN Gemma Rosefi eld CELLO Adrian Wilson OBOE

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Tickets: £15 / £10 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Under 18s & Students

Sunday 1 May, 11am - 3pm

Join Ensemble 360 at the renowned Weston Park Museum for a day of musical activities for all the family. Walk around the spaces in the museum to the sounds of this year’s Festival, including pieces by Bartók, Haydn, Janáček and Johann Strauss II. Celebrate the museum’s Sports Lab theme with some sports-related musical treats. Hear performances by young local musicians including Sheffi eld Music Service, Sheffi eld Young Singers and Music in the Round’s Music Box project.

Get involved in workshops including African drumming with Unbeatable Energy, Music Box and a workshop led by Ensemble 360’s horn player Naomi Atherton (sign up on the door on the day).

Music in the Community Day

Museums Sheffi eld: Weston Park

If you are a string player of any age of approximately Grade 5+, take part in a Bring & Play rehearsal and performance of Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances led by Ensemble 360 strings (sign up before the day).

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Bartered BrideEnsemble 360

DVOŘÁKPiano Quartet in E fl at Op.87

SMETANAThe Bartered Bride Overture

arr. David Matthews for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, fl ute, clarinet,

oboe, bassoon, horn and piano

Friday 6 May, 7.45pm

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Bartered Bride

For booking and general information, contact Chloe Miller Smith on 0114 281 4660

or [email protected] is FREE on the door.

Funded by

HAYDNString Quartet

in G minor Op.20 No.3

JANÁČEKMládí for fl ute, oboe,

clarinet, horn, bassoon and bass clarinet

Pre-concert Talk: The Passing of an Empire A musical journey from 19th century grandeur to 20th century turmoil6.45pm FREE with evening concert ticket

“I do not play around with empty melodies. I dip them in life and nature”

LEOŠ JANÁČEK

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Like its fellow Op.20 quartets Haydn’s G minor Quartet is full of innovation; unusual phrase lengths, dramatic silences and many other devices that show Haydn’s absolute mastery of a form that he invented.

Janáček’s late masterpiece Mládí, which was given its UK première on 6 May 1926 at the Wigmore Hall, is a wonderful evocation of youthful memories.

David Matthews’s eff ervescent arrangement of Smetana’s ever-popular Bartered Bride Overture was commissioned and premièred in 2010 by the Nash Ensemble.

A Little Night MusicCrucible Bar, After the ConcertAbbeydale Singers, directed by Kevin Haighton, sing a variety of choral pieces - FREE event


Saturday 7 May, 12.45pm

Josef Suk was a pupil of Dvořák, his son-in-law, and a talented violinist; he played in over 4,000 concerts as a member of the Czech Quartet. Suk’s Piano Quartet is a wonderful blend of late romantic ardour and sensuousness, at times reminiscent of his teacher but with hints of Wagner and Brahms.

Bartók’s Second Violin Sonata is a perfect example of the synthesis between folk music and idioms, and his highly developed, modernist style.

A Passion for FolkEnsemble 360



BARTÓKSonata No.2 for Violin & Piano

SUKPiano Quartet in A minor Op.1

Intimate LettersEnsemble 360 with Daniel Evans“I have begun to write something nice. Our life will be in it. It will be called Love Letters.” With these words, the 74 year-old Leoš Janáček revealed in a series of letters to Kamila Stösslová, a married woman 37 years younger than him, that he was composing a string quartet (fi nally named Intimate Letters) that would document their impassioned relationship. The letters form a compelling account of the creation of a masterpiece, revealing with rare clarity the translation of passionate feeling into emotionally charged music.

We are delighted to welcome Sheffi eld Theatres Artistic Director Daniel Evans for a dramatic collaboration with Ensemble 360 featuring a semi-staged reading of Janáček’s letters in a new adaptation by writer Paul Allen.

This concert is generously supported by Music in the Round Angels


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“I believe in the brotherhood of peoples, brotherhood in spite of all wars and

conflicts. I try - to the best of my ability - to serve this idea in my music;

therefore I don’t reject any influence, be it Slovak, Romanian, Arabic, or from any

other source. The source must only be clean, fresh and healthy!”

BÉLA BARTÓKclean, fresh and healthy!”

BÉLA BARTÓK

MARTINŮNonet for fl ute, clarinet, oboe, horn,

bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass

JANÁČEKString Quartet No.2 Intimate Letters

with actor and director Daniel Evans

HAYDNString Quartet in B

fl at Op.71 No.1 arr. Wranitzsky for

fl ute, oboe, two horns, two violins, viola,

cello and double bass

Pre-concert Talk: The Origins of Intimate Letters 6.45pm - ticket Dr Paul Wingfi eld from Trinity College, Cambridge discusses the origins of Janáček’s Intimate Letters. FREE with evening concert

Image of Kamila Stösslová

Sunday 8 May

Join us for a very special day of music, food and dance at the Sheffi eld City Hall Ballroom as we bring you the sights, sounds and smells of the grand cafés of Vienna, Prague and Budapest during the peak years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Sunday on the Avenue Národní Trída: The Prague Café Experience

Sheffi eld City Hall Ballroom

Single Concert £10 / £7 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Under 18s & Students

Single Concert & Workshop £15 / £12 Disabled & Unemployed / £8 Under 18s & Students

Day Pass (two concerts & Workshop) £25/ £19 Disabled & Unemployed / £11 Under 18s & Students

No other off ers, including the £5 fi rst timers and U35 discounts, are available for the concerts at Sheffi eld City Hall Ballroom.


Sunday on the Avenue Národní Trída: The Sounds of Spring

We start with a programme of sublime music by Hummel and Schubert, combined with the infectious melodies and rhythms of Janáček’s Concertino, inspired by the season of Spring and featuring the noise of “crickets, midges, a roebuck, a sharp torrent … and man”.

Café The Ballroom opens as a café from 11am and will be serving coff ee and cake all day. Between 12.45pm and 2.30pm a specially designed mouth-watering lunch of traditional Hungarian and Austrian dishes is on the menu. Any two courses for £10.70.

Sunday 8 May, 11.30am“In Prague it was a long afternoon. Hurriedly eating pastries, hurriedly getting

the tables out of the way and, chop-chop, they began dancing shimmies, fox-trots and

all those twirly things!” LEOŠ JANÁČEK

No other off ers, including the £5 fi rst timers and U35 discounts, are available

all those twirly things!” LEOŠ JANÁ JANÁ JAN ČEK

HUMMEL Septet in D minor

Op.74 for fl ute, oboe, horn, viola, cello,

double bass and piano

JANÁČEKConcertino for clarinet, bassoon,

horn, violins, viola and piano

SCHUBERT String Trio in B fl at D.471


SundayNárodní Trída: The Prague SundayNárodní Trída: The Prague Sunday

Café ExperienceNárodní Trída: The Prague Café ExperienceNárodní Trída: The Prague

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Image of the Avenue Národní Trída


Sunday 8 May, 1.30pm

Workshops We are delighted to off er you an opportunity to take part in a traditional Empire experience. Try your hand at one of the following activities. Both last approx 1 hour and we welcome all ages and abilities.

The Glory of the WaltzBallroom dancing fl ourished throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries, aided in no small part by the music of Johann Strauss, some of which you can hear in the 3pm concert. Join us for a lively workshop as top dancer Dale Bennett from Sheffi eld’s City-Limits Dancentre reveals some of the innermost secrets of the waltz.

Strictly Strudel!Viennese patisserie was, and is still today, one of the great European culinary delights and no item was more popular in the glory days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire than Apfelstrudel. Mark Mortimer, City Hall’s very own Head Chef, will introduce you to the secrets of the perfect strudel and Lahmacun, a spicy Hungarian fl atbread, and guide you through the early stages of preparing your very own version. All you need do then is take them home, pop them in the oven, and enjoy.

Tickets: Workshops can only be purchased with a concert ticket (see page 9 for ticket off ers). Advance booking is necessary.


Workshops

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Sunday 8 May, 3pm

Viennese patisserie was, and is still today, one of the great European “We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last … we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion.” THE TIMES (1816)

REPORTING ON THE PRINCE REGENT’S BALL

“We remarked with pain that the

Sunday on the Avenue Národní Trída: Strauss Waltzes

As the crowning glory of the day, Ensemble 360 plays Dvořák’s Cypresses and Slavonic Dances. We hope that our grand fi nale will inspire you literally to rise to the occasion: you are most welcome to sit back and enjoy a selection of Strauss waltzes - arranged with supreme elegance and charm - and we are also delighted to off er a special area of the ballroom for all of you who would like to help us in re-creating the atmosphere and spirit of Prague café culture by joining in with the dance. Ballroom dress optional!

J. STRAUSS II Rosen aus dem Süden

Op.388

J. STRAUSS II Wein, Weib und

Gesang! Op.333

DVOŘÁKCypresses

for string quartet

DVOŘÁKSlavonic Dances

J. STRAUSS IIKaiser-walzer Op.437

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With many thanks to Sheffi eld City Hall


Monday 9 May, 12.45pm

Liszt’s penchant for virtuosity usually tests only pianists but here he puts both the piano and violin through their paces. It is a set of spectacular variations on Lafont’s Le Marin.

Zemlinsky’s charming Humoreske dates from 1939, towards the end of his life. Although he had been a big infl uence on the composers of the Second Viennese School, this piece is an example of his relative conservatism.

Dvořák’s Bagatelles are exquisite diversions. They are pieces for the drawing room and guaranteed to produce a smile.

DiversionsEnsemble 360



ZEMLINSKYHumoreske for fl ute, clarinet,

oboe, horn and bassoon

DVOŘÁK Five Bagatelles Op.47 for two

violins, cello and piano

The AmericanEnsemble 360The F minor Piano Trio is thought to be one of Dvořák’s greatest works. Like so many of his pieces it betrays an indebtedness to his mentor, Brahms, but is infused with his own unique melodic gifts. In contrast to the sunny American Quartet, this work is dark, brooding and incredibly passionate.

Both Dvořák and Martinů emigrated to America but unlike Dvořák, who returned to his native Bohemia, Martinů was to stay in exile for the remainder of his life. His quartet is not only full of the freshness and vitality of Czech dance and folk music but also conveys a sense of longing for his homeland.

MARTINŮ Quartet for oboe, violin, cello and piano

DVOŘÁK String Quartet in F Op.96

The American

DVOŘÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op.65

Monday 9 May, 7.45pm

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“Dvorák was lacking in neither charm nor wit, but found it difficult to suppress the natural irritability of the artistic mind” H P HOPKINS

LISZT Grand Duo

Concertant sur la Romance de Le

Marin for violin and piano

Pre-concert Talk: The Shape of Music6.45pm - Royal Philharmonic Society award-winning writer Dr Daniel Leech-Wilkinson from King’s College, London investigates how musicians use the idea of shape to create musical expressivity. With Tim Horton.FREE with evening concert ticket

The American

Tuesday 10 May, 12.45pm

Gustav Mahler, who died 100 years ago, produced just a single piece of chamber music, his early Piano Quartet. Although modest in scale, this work shows how the sixteen year-old composer already had a unique and distinctive musical voice.

Dohnányi is one of the great fi gures of Hungarian music. He was a prolifi c composer whose music was hugely admired by Brahms, and a great pianist who taught such talents as Sir Georg Solti and Georges Cziff ra.

SerenadeEnsemble 360



MARTINŮ Trio for Flute, Cello & Piano

MAHLER Piano Quartet in A minor

DOHNÁNYI Serenade for String Trio in C Op.10

Friends’ Choice

LISZT Vallée d’Obermann

for violin, cello and piano

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Gustav Mahler, who died 100 years ago, produced just a single piece

ŮTrio for Flute, Cello & Piano

MAHLER Piano Quartet in A minor

DOHNÁNYI Serenade for String Trio in C Op.10

“Miss Gyenes’ Orchestra attacks Brahms Hungarian Dance No.5 at such a pace that one takes cover. The pulling-up is overdone, as far as artistry is concerned. I know not whether this is true Hungarian style. I hope not. It seems to me ludicrous without being amusing”

LETTER TO GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 1932

BARTÓK Romanian Folk

DancesArr. Z. Székely for

violin and piano

JANÁČEKPohádka

for cello and piano

Would you like the chance to be part of programming Tuesday night’s concert? Help to sponsor the concert by placing your vote for the Friends’ Choice piece for £10.

If you’d like to fi nd out more about our Friends’ scheme, or you’re a Friend and haven’t voted yet, contact us on email [email protected] or 0114 281 4660.

The Friends’ choice pieces, one of which will appear in the evening concert, are:


Duos & DumkyEnsemble 360Bartók’s Forty-Four Duos for two violins are a counterpart to his six-volume Mikrokosmos for piano. They were designed as pieces of increasing diffi culty for students. Bartók’s ability to capture mood in such short works singles him out as one of music’s great miniaturists.

Dumky is one of Dvořák’s best-loved works. The Dumka, an epic ballad of Ukrainian origin, has inspired many composers and Dvořák was particularly taken with the form, notably returning to it in the second movement of his famous Piano Quintet, which can be heard on the last night of the Festival.

BARTÓK Forty-Four Duos (a selection)

for two violins

DVOŘÁK Dumky in E minor Op.90for violin, cello and piano

Wednesday 11 May, 12.45pm

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Duos & Dumky

Tuesday 10 May, 7.45pm

Bartók’s Contrasts was written in 1938 at the request of the great Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti and the equally great jazz clarinettist, Benny Goodman. The pieces feature Bartók’s ironic take on the Hungarian recruiting dance, as well as the manic and virtuosic Sebes (fast dance) which showcases Bartók’s wonderfully sophisticated compositional techniques.

Supported by Friends of Music in the Round

ContrastsEnsemble 360


BRAHMS Hungarian Dances

Arr. Nicolas Charron for two

violins, viola, cello, double bass, fl ute,

oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano

BARTÓKContrasts

for clarinet, violin and piano

KODÁLYSerenade Op.12

for two violins and viola

Pre-concert Talk: Inspired by Folk Music6.45pm - Nigel Simeone considers the extraordinarily powerful infl uence of folk music on Eastern European composers writing in the years before and after 1900. FREE with evening concert ticket

was written in 1938 at the request of the great

take on the Hungarian recruiting dance, as well as the manic and virtuosic Sebes (fast dance) which showcases Bartók’s wonderfully

BRAHMS Hungarian Dances

Arr. Nicolas for two

violins, viola, cello, double bass, fl ute,

oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano

A Little Night MusicCrucible Bar, After the concertEnjoy a drink in the bar whilst listening to Benjamin Nabarro and Gemma Rosefi eld as they play Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello Op.7.

FRIENDS’ CHOICE PIECE

(see page 16)


Between 1941 and 1945, in the midst of the horrors of World War Two and deep in Nazi-occupied Europe, a musical phenomenon took place in the concentration camp of Terezín near Prague. In the direst conditions, hovering between life and death, exceptional composers created works to be performed in the camp, while superb performers, incarcerated there from all over Europe, performed both these works and those of the great composers of others eras. In the words of one such composer inmate, Victor Ullman, “Our will to create was equal to our will to live”.

Thursday 12 May

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“In the whole history of mankind, it would be hard to find a similar situation, in which people on the brink of death, created works of art, composed music, produced operas, and their own requiems”

KAREL POLÁČEK (1892-1945)

Wednesday 11 May, 7.45pm

It is a great pleasure to welcome the outstanding partnership of James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook to the Festival. They have assembled a programme of unashamedly romantic songs that trace a line from the very fi rst song-cycle (An die ferne geliebte) to Mahler’s early Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen cycle in its original version for voice and piano.

James Gilchrist is one of the most impassioned and communicative singers working on the international stage today and this concert provides the perfect platform for him to express the full range of his interpretative skills.

To the Distant BelovedJames Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)



MAHLER Selections from Des Knaben

Wunderhorn

WOLF Four Möricke Settings

MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

Des Knaben BEETHOVEN

An die Ferne Geliebte

SCHUBERT Four Goethe Settings

LISZT Five Songs

Encore! Post-concert ChatJoin James in the Studio after the concert for an

opportunity to ask him questions and hear him speak about the music and his unusual route to

becoming a professional singer.FREE with your evening concert ticket

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6 -14 MayCrucible Archive“Music! to us, music was life!” Words from Greta Hoff meister, a survivor of Terezín. This free exhibition gives an insight into the importance of musical life of this concentration camp.

Image of Young musicians in Terezín


KRÁSA Passacaglia & Fugue

for string trio

SMETANA Two Salon Polkas

Op.7 Nos.1 & 3 for piano

Thursday 12 May, 7.45pm

Film: Brundibár6pm – Join us for a showing of Hans Krása’s symbolic children’s opera Brundibár, which was performed some fi fty-fi ve times by the child inmates of Terezín. Production by Mecklenburgh Opera (director John Abulafi a) and directed for television by Simon Broughton.FREE with your evening concert ticket

SUKMeditation on an Old Czech Hymn St Wenceslas Op.35a for string quartet

SCHULHOFF Duo for violin and cello

SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D.956

Ensemble 360 recreates a performance that might typically have been given one evening in Terezín.

Music composed by inmates Hans Krása and Erwin Schulhoff is set alongside Three Dances by Smetana and a moving Meditation by Suk based on a chorale in honour of the 10th century martyr, St Wenceslas, which was regularly used as a patriotic symbol by Czech composers, including Dvořák and Martinů. The concert concludes with Schubert’s monumental and uplifting String Quintet.

This concert is generously supported by Maurice and Sheila Millward.

Pre-concert Talk: Terezín’s Music 6.45pm - Ensemble 360 cellist Gemma Rosefi eld, who wrote her university dissertation on the music of Terezín, is joined by eminent writer and fi lm-maker Simon Broughton to discuss the music that was composed within the confi nes of Terezín.FREE with evening concert ticket

Thursday 12 May, 12.45pm


Pre-concert Talk: The Story of Terezin, 11.45am - Ensemble 360 cellist Gemma

Rosefi eld introduces the day by looking at how Terezín formed and what life was like

for its inhabitants. FREE with your concert ticket

Gideon Klein, Zikmund Schul, and Pavel Haas all died in the concentration camps. Klein, a pianist and composer, was off ered a scholarship in 1939 to the Royal Academy of Music in London. War intervened and he became a key member of the musical community in Terezín.

Schul was born in Germany but sought refuge in Prague and his Terezín work is greatly infl uenced by the Hebraic chant. Haas, a favourite student of Janáček at the Brno Conservatory, composed fi lm and theatre music as well as orchestral, choral and chamber works. Had these composer inmates survived, one can only imagine the eff ect they would have had on the course of Czech and indeed European twentieth century music.

KLEIN String Trio

SCHUL Two Chassidic Dances

for violin and cello

HAAS String Quartet

No.3 Op.15

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Within the Walls of Terezín

22.£15 / £10 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Under 18s & Students

Ensemble 360 cellist Gemma Rosefi eld, who wrote her university dissertation on the music of Terezín, is joined by eminent writer and fi lm-maker Simon Broughton to discuss the music that

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Music was Life

Film: Brundibár6pm – Join us for a showing of Hans Krása’s

Music was Life

Jewish Museum

Tickets: £10/ £7 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Under 18s & Students

Performance of Brundibár


From my LifeEnsemble 360Smetana’s popular String Quartet in E minor is a rare example of a self-confessed autobiographical piece of chamber music. The entire course of his life is represented right up to the moment of the onset of deafness through tinnitus and his eventual resignation to his fate. It is, however, an incredibly uplifting and moving piece.

Ligeti’s Trio is a late twentieth century masterpiece and Ligeti himself referred to it as a turning point that heralded what was to be his fi nal period. The piece shows his fascination for stretching the limits of instrumental possibilities, most notably in the writing for horn which spends much of the piece exploring the extreme high register. The ghost of Bartók is never far away in this music, particularly in the Bulgarian rhythms of the second movement.

* Please note earlier start time

Friday 13 May, 7pm*

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“I do not play around with empty melodies. I dip them in life and nature.”

LEOŠ JANÁČEK

LIGETI Trio for violin, horn and

piano

SMETANA String Quartet in E minor

From my Life

BEETHOVEN Allegretto in B fl at

for violin, cello and piano


Zemlinsky’s glorious Trio was composed in 1896, and Brahms was so deeply impressed with the piece that he personally recommended it for publication. While clearly paying homage to Brahms, the Trio hints at how Zemlinsky’s musical language would become such a profound inspiration to the composers of the Second Viennese School.

Schubert’s beautiful little B fl at Piano Trio, his fi rst piece for strings and piano, was written when he was 15.

TriosEnsemble 360



SCHUBERT Piano Trio in B fl at D.28

ZEMLINSKY Trio in D minor Op.3

for clarinet, cello and piano

From my Life

Tickets: Participating children £5 (accompanying adults free). Book through the Music in the Round offi ce via Chloe Miller Smith on 0114 281 4660

Music Box Ideal for 3 – 6 year olds Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK for their activity for early years. Here workshop leader Polly Ives and Naomi (horn), Matt (clarinet) and Claudia (violin) lead a 45 minute workshop for 3 – 6 year olds.

The workshop features child-friendly chunks of music from this year’s festival, including Bartók, Martinů and Brahms, alongside songs, creative movement and percussion games. This is a rare opportunity for young children to hear internationally renowned musicians up close!

Saturday 14 May, 10.30am

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Tickets: £10 / £7 Disabled & Unemployed / £3 Under 18s & Students www.musicintheround.co.uk

Come In!Moishe’s Bagel will be performing in Sheffi eld junior and special needs schools with funding

from the Mayfi eld Valley Arts Trust. If you would like more information about musicians

visiting your school contact Polly Ives on [email protected] or 0114 281 4660.

“My two kids were mesmerized” Parent

“exhilarating, full-flavoured

stuff” The Herald

Moishe’s Bagel


Moishe’s Bagel played to a packed out Studio in Autumn 2007, and the group makes its welcome return with rip-roaring, foot-stomping, jazz-infl ected klezmer and Balkan music.

Combining an intoxicating mix of Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern rhythms and virtuoso performance, Moishe’s Bagel’s programme vividly demonstrates how a common folk heritage had a profound and equal infl uence on both klezmer music and the works of such composers as Bartok and Kodaly as well as the band’s own varied compositional styles.

Concert lasts approximately one hour. Drinks from the Crucible Bar may be taken into Crucible Studio Theatre.


Festival FinaleEnsemble 360Join us for a light-hearted, uplifting and energetic conclusion to the Festival.

Ligeti’s sparkling and irresistible Bagatelles are his own arrangements of six pieces from his piece Musica Ricercata for piano. They are very close to the world of Bartók but with the added element of the absurd, which was to become Ligeti’s hallmark.

Dohnányi’s Sextet is a riot of late romantic extremes; lush harmonies, exquisite melodies and cat and mouse antics are packed into a piece with something for everyone.

Dvořák’s Piano Quintet is one of his most popular and enduring works. One of only a handful of great pieces in this genre, it is a delight for performers and audience alike.

This concert is generously supported by Kate Dugdale.


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Festival Finale

DVOŘÁK Piano Quintet

in A Op.81

LIGETI Six Bagatelles for fl ute, clarinet, oboe,

horn and bassoon

DOHNÁNYI Sextet in C Op.37 for violin, viola, cello,

clarinet, horn and piano


La Revue de Cuisine is a dazzling one-act jazz ballet depicting the trying emotional entanglements between characters Pot, Lid, Dishcloth and Broom. The infl uence of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale is never far from the surface.

Smetana’s Trio was born out of the tragedy of his daughter’s death from scarlet fever. Consumed with grief he immersed himself in composition, creating this wonderful and complex work. Despite the tragic air which pervades the Trio there is an unexpectedly positive ending.

EmotionalEntanglements

Ensemble 360



MARTINŮ La Revue de Cuisine

Arr. for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, cello and piano

SMETANA Piano Trio in G minor Op.15

“I do not write in the style of any famous composer, I admire only their greatness,

taking for myself everything that I recognize as good and beautiful and above all truthful

in art. You have known this of me for a long time but others do not and think that I am

introducing Wagnerism!!! I’ve got my hands full with Smetana-ism”

BEDŘICH SMETANA

Smetana’s Trio was born out of the tragedy of his daughter’s death

BEDŘICH SMETANA

Happy DaysFri 20 May – Sat 4 JuneCrucible Studio Theatre A bold new production to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s funniest play, starring Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless, Jam and Jerusalem). Tickets £10.00 - £18.00

Hobson’s ChoiceThu 26 May – Sat 25 JuneCrucible Theatre One of the most popular plays of the last century, Harold Brighouse’s brilliantly observed northern comedy is about growing up, moving on and getting out. Tickets £10.00 - £23.00

The PrideThu 23 June – Sat 16 JulyCrucible Studio Theatre The stellar creative team that gave us last year’s smash-hit That Face return to the Studio with this Olivier Award-winning play about loyalty, loss and having the courage to stand up for who you really are. Tickets £10.00 - £18.00

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Wed 16 Mar - Thu 7 AprCrucible TheatreSet in the early 1960s, Edward Albee’s explosive play captures the mood of a society on the brink of massive change. Ferociously funny and emotionally raw, this is a compelling rollercoaster ride into the darkest depths of love and marriage. Tickets £10.00 - £23.00

Box Offi ce 0114 249 6000sheffi eldtheatres.co.uk

Crucible Studio Theatre | 55 Norfolk Street | Sheffi eld S1 1DA

Seating Areas: All seats are unreserved, but please specify which area you wish to sit in when booking, i.e. stage level, tier one or tier two.

Latecomers: The auditorium will open 30 minutes before the advertised start time. Please note that latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance.

Drinks: You may take drinks purchased from the Crucible bar into our concerts.

Access: The Crucible Studio off ers easy access for wheelchair users although spaces are limited; please inform the box offi ce at the time of booking if you require a wheelchair space. For blue badge holders, spaces are available in the Q-Park, NCP car park, and outside the Theatre on Surrey Street and Norfolk Street.

Parking: There is a 24-hour Q-park car park on Arundel Gate, which off ers discounted parking for theatre goers. Ask at Box Offi ce for a voucher. Alternatively, a 24-hour NCP car park can be accessed from Norfolk Street or Arundel Gate.

Venue Information Sheffi eldCrucibleMarch - July 2011

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Booking Your TicketsOpening HoursBy Phone: Monday - Saturday, 9.30am - 8pm In Person: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 8pmOn non-performance days the box offi ce closes at 6pm

Booking Fees All telephone bookings are subject to a £1.50 booking fee. All online bookings are subject to a £1 booking fee.

Tickets for the events at Sheffi eld City Hall on May 8 may be booked through Sheffi eld Theatres but will be subject to a 10% booking fee. These events should not be booked via the booking form.

All tickets purchased at Sheffi eld City Hall are subject to a 10% booking fee.

By PostYou can book your tickets by post using the form on page 32. Please include one SAE per six tickets ordered to allow your tickets to be posted back. It is usual for telephone and personal bookings to be given priority.

ConcessionsConcessions are available upon proof of status for people with disabilities, those registered unemployed, students and under 18s. Prices are indicated on each concert page.

Family TicketsFamily groups of four (to include at least two under 18s) can save 10% on tickets. In advance only.

Ticket Off ersFestival Ticket: See page 4 for details Sunday on the Avenue Národní Trída: see page 9 for details Under 35s: See page 4 for details First Timers: Get two tickets for £5 each on your fi rst booking

Re-SalesWe endeavour to re-sell your tickets on your behalf at a charge of £1 per ticket if the event is sold out.

Booking DatesBooking for Friends of Music in the Round opens on Saturday 26 February. During this period use the booking form on page 32. Tickets at this time are limited to two per Friend per event.

General booking opens on Saturday 5 March.

0114 249 6000sheffi eldtheatres.co.ukIn person at the Crucible Box Offi ce

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Please enclose a photocopy of your proof of status if concessionary tickets are required

To take part contact Polly Ives on 0114 281 4660 or [email protected]

Public concert: Sunday 12 June, 5pm Tickets: £3 on the door

Explore ‘nuovo tango’ music by Piazzolla including Four Seasons, Oblivion, Libertango and Esquallo.

Piazzolla Project...

Booking FormPLEASE RETURN WITH ONE SAE PER SIX TICKETS TO:Sheffi eld Theatres Box Offi ce | 55 Norfolk Street | Sheffi eld S1 1DA

Tickets Required Quantity x Price Seating Area Total

Date Time Standard Disabled / Student / Stage Level / Unemployed Under 18 Tier 1 / Tier 2 Example: 1 May 7.45pm 1x £15 2x £10 1x £3 Stage Level £28

16 concert offer x £160 x £112

8 concert offer x £88 x £60 5 concert offer x £65 x £45

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String weekend for 11 - 21 year olds from across South Yorkshire Led by Ensemble 360’s Benjamin Nabarro and Gemma Rosefi eld and bandoneon player 11 – 12 June 2011 City Hall’s Ballroom, Sheffi eld

Funded by Mayfi eld Valley Arts Trust

The concerts on Sunday 8 May take place at Sheffi eld City Hall. These events should not be booked via the booking form.

Festival DiarySunday 1 May, 11am – 3pm Music in the Community DayFriday 6 May, 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Friday 6 May, 7.45pm Bartered BrideFriday 6 May, after the concert A Little Night Music Saturday 7 May, 12.45pm A Passion for FolkSaturday 7 May, 6.45pm Pre-Concert TalkSaturday 7 May, 7.45pm Intimate LettersSunday 8 May, 11.30am The Sounds of Spring Sunday 8 May, 1.30pm The Glory of the Waltz & Strictly Strudel! Sunday 8 May, 3pm Strauss WaltzesMonday 9 May, 12.45pm Diversions

Monday 9 May, 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Monday 9 May, 7.45pm The American

Tuesday 10 May, 12.45pm SerenadeTuesday 10 May, 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk

Tuesday 10 May, 7.45pm ContrastsTuesday 10 May, after the concert A Little Night Music Wednesday 11 May, 12.45pm Duos & Dumky Wednesday 11 May, 7.45pm To the Distant BelovedWednesday 11 May, after the concert Post-Concert chat Thursday 12 May, 12.45pm Within the Walls of TerezínThursday 12 May, 6pm Brundibár ScreeningThursday 12 May, 6.45pm Pre-Concert TalkThursday 12 May, 7.45pm Music Was LifeFriday 13 May, 12.45pm TriosFriday 13 May, 7pm From my LifeFriday 13 May, 9.15pm Moishe’s Bagel Saturday 14 May, 10.30am Music Box Saturday 14 May, 12.45pm Emotional Entanglements Saturday 14 May, 7.45pm Festival Finale


Please note that events in pink are at Sheffield City Hall Ballroom.

Documents

Intimate Letters: Austrian, Hungarian and Bohemian music 1804-1945