Chamber Music (Music of Cocteau’s Circle)
Cocteau’s circle of friends and collaborators included many of the best French composers of his time, including a close artistic bond with the group known as Les Six (Poulenc, Milhaud, Honegger, Auric, Durey, Tailleferre) and Satie. Cocteau often provided his composer friends with poetry for chansons, scenarios for programmatic instrumental music and ballets, and lyrics for popular songs; he also had a less visible, but equally significant, role in shaping musical taste in Paris through his criticism and salons that he organized.
In this free concert, generously sponsored by the Greenwich Arts Council, ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) returns again to the festival to perform music by some of Cocteau’s friends and collaborators, including Poulenc, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Durey and Tailleferre.
Free concert
Tuesday June 7, 8:00PM
Greenwich Arts Council
The Meeting Room, 2nd Floor
299 Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
8:00 - 9:15pm
Poulenc, Clarinet Sonata, (1962)
Joshua Rubin, Clarinet, Cory Smythe, Piano
Durey, Romance sans paroles, op 21 (1917)
Cory Smythe, Piano
Milhaud, Pastorale, op.147, (1935)
Nicholas Masterson, Oboe, Joshua Rubin, Clarinet, Rebekah Heller, Bassoon
Tailleferre: Sonatine (1924)
Erik Carlson, Violin, Cory Smythe, Piano
Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, op. 43 (1926)
Nicholas Masterson, Oboe, Rebekah Heller, Bassoon, Cory Smythe, Piano
Stravinsky, Excerpts from L’histoire du soldat (1919)
Erik Carlson, Violin, Joshua Rubin, Clarinet, Cory Smythe, Piano
ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Nick Masterson, oboe
Rebekah Heller, bassoon
Erik Carlson, violin
Cory Smythe, piano