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This weekend, five members of the Phoenix Symphony Chamber Players will perform \u201cThe Three B\u2019s\u201d as part of Northern Arizona University\u2019s Horizons Summer Concert Series<\/a>. The performance of music by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms will take place at 4 p.m. July 14 in Kitt Recital Hall. The concert will\ninclude a rendition of Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s \u201cTrio Sonata in G Major, BWV\n1038,\u201d which dates back to the 1730s\u2014a predominantly choral time period. This\nrare instrumental chamber composition is considered by some scholars to be the\nwork of Bach\u2019s oldest son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel; perhaps a compositional\nexercise for his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also featured\nwill be \u201cTrio in G Major, WoO 37\u201d composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1786\nand 1790 when he was a teenager. Its unusual scoring reflected the musical\nresources of the wealthy Westerholt-Gysenberg family: Baron Ludolf Friedrich\nAdolf von Boenen zu Berge, bassoon;\nhis son Friedrich Otto, flute;\nand daughter Maria Anna Wilhelmine, piano,\nwho was one of Beethoven\u2019s tutees. This trio remained unpublished in\nBeethoven\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eight decades\nlater, Johannes Brahms wrote a soaring trio for violin, horn and piano as an\nelegy to his mother, Christiane, who died in 1865. His other musical memorial\nwas the \u201cGerman Requiem.\u201d Originally designed for natural horn, an instrument\nparticularly suited to the authentic folk songs that Brahms incorporated in\nthis score, this performance will showcase the lesser-known version for cello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Phoenix\nSymphony Chamber Players feature Brian Gordon, flute; Douglas Brown, bassoon;\nAnna Kim Kazepides, violin;\nYeil Park, cello; and Olga\nGorelik, piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Admission to the Horizons Concert Series is $22.50 for adults\nand $15 for seniors and NAU faculty and staff. Concerts are free for NAU\nstudents with ID and children under 17. Tickets can be purchased online<\/a>, at the\nCentral Ticket Office in the University Union or by calling (928) 523-5661.\nTickets also are available at the door with a $2 surcharge. Free event parking\nis available in Lot P13<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There will be a\npost-performance reception in the atrium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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