House Concert: Polish Adventures

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM

This program of music by Polish composers draws on a wide variety of influences near and far. Weinberg’s deep friendship with Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich looms large in his String Trio, along with echoes of Jewish, Gypsy, and Moldavian themes. Polish folk melodies and bucolic musical settings are also on the menu. The cornerstone of the evening, Szymanowski’s Mythes, presents three programmatic miniatures inspired by Greek mythology, with traces of French impressionism and the composer’s own travels in Sicily and North Africa. 

House concerts are kindly hosted by members of the Anchorage community in their own homes. Venue address will be provided to patrons one week prior to the concert.

PROGRAM

Mieczysław WEINBERG: String Trio, Op. 48
Karol SZYMANOWSKI: Mythes, Op. 30 for Violin and Piano 
Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI: Five Bucolics, for Viola and Cello
Krzysztof PENDERECKI: Clarinet Quartet 
Grażyna BACEWICZ: Quartet for Four Violins 

ARTISTS

Chad Burrow (clarinet)
Amy I-Lin Cheng (piano)
Minju Kim, Luri Lee, Christine Harada Li, Boson Mo and Zachary Spontak (violin)
Edwin Kaplan and Hezekiah Leung (viola)
Nathan Chan and Nathaniel Pierce (cello)

All ACMF concerts are General Admission.