TrinityJournal.com: Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival live streaming concert 7 PM PT Sept. 29. Selections from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Negro Melodies, Op. 24.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)

The Trinity Journal

Weaverville, California

September 28, 2020

Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival presents live streaming concert 

The Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival will be resuming its popular series of digital concerts at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29.  The concert will be streamed live from the Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center in Weaverville, and will feature trio performances by festival co-founders, pianist Ian Scarfe and violinist Ellen McGehee, joined by cellist James Jaffe.

The concert will be streamed via Zoom, and will feature interviews with the musicians, performances of music by Ludwig van Beethoven and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and a live Q&A that audience members can participate in.

Registration is required to attend the concert, visit www.TrinityAlpsCMF.org to register. Instead of setting ticket prices, the festival asks attendees to “pay-what-you-can,” allowing each to choose a contribution that is best for their budget. 

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The musical selections will include Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1. It is often referred to as the “Ghost” Trio, because of the haunting minor-key music in the middle, but overall it is a buoyant, joyous, and often humorous work that is one of Beethoven’s finest. The musicians will also prepare selections from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Negro Melodies, Op. 24. Coleridge-Taylor was a mixed-race English composer who lived at the height of the late-Romantic era, and his arrangements call to mind the music of Dvorak or Grieg, other composers who successfully married folk-music styles with the classical Romantic traditions.