Next Meeting - Tuesday November 17th - Brian Ritter, Executive Director & Eunghee Cho, Principle Cellist of Mercury Chamber Orchestra **
Next Meeting - Tuesday November 17th - Brian Ritter, Executive Director & Eunghee Cho, Principle Cellist of Mercury Chamber Orchestra **
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Join us as we welcome, Brian Ritter, Executive Director of the Mercury Chamber Orchestra and Cellist, Eunghee Cho on Tuesday, November 17th at NOON, Emerson. More details below.
Photo Credit: Claire McAdams
BRIAN RITTER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,
MERCURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
with special performing guest
Eunghee Cho
cellist
Tuesday, November 17TH
Noon
Join us Tuesday November 17th!
emerson unitarian universalist church
1900 Bering Drive
Houston, TX 77056
Join us as we welcome our speaker, Brian Ritter, the Executive Director of Mercury Chamber Orchestra. Throughout his career, Brian has been connecting individuals and communities through classical music. He became Executive Director of Houston’s Mercury Chamber Orchestra in 2013. Brian will talk about “Mercury’s Distinctive Period Practice”.
We are also honored to welcome Principle Cellist for the Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Eunghee Cho. Besides his role with Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Eunghee is the cellist of Trio Magnoliana and Director of Chamber Music for Texas Music Festival. He currently teaches cello at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston where he also directs the Moores Cello Ensemble and CelloFest Houston.
Mr. Cho will be playing two movements from J.S. Bach's Cello Suites:
Allemande from Suite No. 1 in G major (BWV 1007)
Prelude from Suite No. 3 in C major (BWV 1009)
November 17th program
Etude in C# Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Barcarolle in F# Major, Op. 60
Rada Bukhman, piano
Sonata for Flute and Piano (1966) Otar Vasilisdze Taktakishvili (1924-1989)
II Aria: Moderato con moto
III Allegro scherzando
Carolyn Krysl-Hutchinson, flute Galina Lay, piano
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