Schedule:

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

11:00 a.m. - Mornings@Menlo
Martin Family Hall

Mornings@Menlo convene the entire festival community for hour-long master classes and Café Conversations, led by Music@Menlo faculty and artists. Mornings@Menlo are free and open to the public in Martin Family Hall; reservations are not required. All sessions are livestreamed on Music@Menlo’s website.

5:00 PM - Prelude Performance XII
Martin Family Hall 
Tickets: Free

PROGRAM

W. A. Mozart(1756–1791)
 String Quartet in E-flat major, K. 428 (1783)

Anton Arensky(1861–1906)
 Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 32 (1894)

Artists

PIANO

 Elliot Wuu

CELLO

 Camden Archambeau
 Sara Scanlon

VIOLA

 Stephen “Adam” Savage

VIOLIN

 Ria Honda
 Ariel Horowitz
 Tianyou Ma

7:00 PM - Carte Blanche Concert III:
Gilbert Kalish at 90: A Celebration
Stent Family Hall
Tickets: $90 full-price | $25 under age thirty

“As a young man I participated in an ensemble called the Gramercy Chamber Ensemble. It was a rather unwieldy group that had a full complement of strings, winds, brass, percussion, singers, and a pianist. We chose repertoire by consensus. When one of the members mentioned a work called Pierrot lunaire there were puzzled faces all around. When he described an orchestration consisting of flute-piccolo, violin-viola, clarinet-bass clarinet (each pair of these instruments played by one person), cello, piano, and a singer who did not really sing but performed a hybrid of singing and speaking on pitch, we were really perplexed.

After 50 rehearsals we were transfixed and mesmerized. It turns out that Pierrot lunaire—a work consisting of 21 short, grotesque, dreamlike poems set to witty and fiendishly difficult music—became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century. Plunge yourself into this world of fantasy and marvel at how original and enchanting it remains to this day.” —Gilbert Kalish

PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach(1685–1750)
 Partita no. 6 in E minor for Keyboard, BWV 830 (1731)

Anton Webern(1883–1945)
 Two Early Pieces for Cello and Piano (1899)

Anton Webern(1883–1945)
 Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 7 (1910)

Arnold Schoenberg(1874–1951)
 Pierrot lunaire, op. 21 (1912)

Artists

SOPRANO

 Tony Arnold

CLARINET

 Jose Franch-Ballester

VIOLIN

 Erin Keefe

CELLO

 Nicholas Canellakis

PIANO

 Gilbert Kalish

FLUTE

 Tara Helen O’Connor