Philip Dukes & Friends II: Tales of the Unexpected | SMF 2022

In a first for the SMF chamber music series, we travel to the magnificent surroundings of the Metal Building at Trustees’ Garden, for a program of fantasy and drama. In a semi-staged, partly programmatic concert, Impressionist France meets the mysterious world of Edgar Allan Poe, with a reading of Poe’s macabre tale “The Masque of the Red Death,” and in response, we hear André Caplet’s brilliant setting of the same story to music. To add to the Impressionistic element there is Claude Debussy’s exquisite trio for flute, viola, and harp, the program concludes with Maurice Ravel’s beguiling Piano Trio, perhaps one the finest trios ever written.
Program:
DEBUSSY Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
POE “The Masque of the Red Death”
CAPLET Conte fantastique for Harp and String Quartet (after “The Masque of the Red Death”)
RAVEL Piano Trio in A minor
Personnel:
Benny Kim, violin
Brendan Speltz, violin
Robin Ashwell, viola
Philip Dukes, viola
Eric Kim, cello
Keith Robinson, cello
Bridget Kibbey, harp
Ana-Maria Vera, piano
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Mervon Mehta, narrator
Savannah Music Festival 2022
Tuesday, March 29 at 7:30 PM
Metal Building at Trustees' Garden