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JOIN US FOR OUR 75th ANNIVERSARY SEASON!
2024-2025
Concerts will be held at GRANT MIDDLE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
2400 Grant Boulevard, Syracuse, NY 13208
Programs subject to change
FRAUTSCHI-MANASSE-NAKAMATSU
TRIO
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 7:30 pm
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A Van Cliburn Piano Competition Gold Medal Winner playing a thrilling Chopin work! Three superb musicians bringing to life Stravinsky at his most inventive! Join us as we welcome back pianist Jon Nakamatsu, two-time GRAMMY nominee violinist Jennifer Frautschi, and clarinetist Jon Manasse, former first chair of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Their program spotlights their individual talents and explores some musical gems.
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Debussy: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano
Debussy: Première rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano
Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande polonaise brillante, op.22
Khatchaturian: Trio in G Minor
Stravinsky: Suite from L’Histoire du soldat
Novacek: Two Rags for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
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Photo: Shervin Laine
IMANI WINDS
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 7:30 pm
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When this splendid woodwind quintet returns to close our series, they will perform a new work commissioned by SFCM. The composer is Loren Loiacono of Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music, a prolific composer of orchestral, chamber, and choral music. A fitting culmination of our 75th Anniversary celebration!
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION: Tout le monde
Lina Mathon Blanchet: A Haitian Tale, arr. Gil DeJean
Jean Françaix: Wind Quintet no. 2 (1987)
Lalo Shifrin: La Nouvelle Orleans
Loren Loiacono: ... not as I do (World premiere)
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring arr. Jonathan Russell
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This concert is made possible, in part, through the CNY Arts Grants for Regional Arts and Cultural Engagement regrant program, thanks to a New York State Senate Initiative supported by the NYS Legislature and the Office of the Governor, administered by the New York State Council on the Arts.