Cello Month ~ March 2015
Events
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Cello Month Launch Party & Contemporary Cello & Cello Bow Exhibit Preview
6pm to 9pm at
Carriage House Violins
Drinks & hors d'oeuvres will be served
RSVP to info@carriagehouseviolins.com
- Learn about the exciting events CHV will host as part of Cello Month including performances, lectures & more!
- Preview our month-long exhibit & meet many of the spectacular makers involved!
Monday, March 2 - Friday, April 3 2015
Contemporary Cello & Cello Bow Exhibit
Standard business hours at Carriage House Violins
Monday, March 2, 2015
“Art’s Cello” reading with author and violin maker James N. McKean with special guests Guy Rabut and David Polstein.
~ Chosen by Amazon.com Kindle Singles editors as one of 2014 Best Books of the Year ~
7pm at
Carriage House Violins
Tickets - FREE
Art’s Cello, selected by its publisher, Kindle Singles, as one of the twenty best books of the year, is a memoir that gives an intimate look into the world of violinmaking. After losing their close friend and colleague Art Toman to leukemia, violinmakers Jim McKean, David Polstein, and Guy Rabut work together to build a cello in his honor.
As the instrument takes form through the traditions of a centuries-old craft, they complete a journey that they had begun together, while giving their friendship a timeless voice in an ever-changing world.
Join the Boston Cello Society as the three makers of Art’s cello, now in the permanent collection of the Juilliard School, reunite to read from the memoir and talk about the world of violinmaking, and their friend Art.
Available on Amazon.com.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The Cello: How it Works - lecture by James N. McKean
7pm at
Carriage House Violins
Tickets – FREE
The cello is perhaps the most perfect acoustical amplification system ever designed. A vibrating string is by itself inaudible – and yet when attached to this marvelous instrument, it can be heard in the last row at Symphony Hall. Join violinmaker Jim McKean as he explains how a cello is designed and built to give it its incomparable voice.
Friday, March 13, 2015
The Boston Cello Quartet
Blaise Déjardin, Adam Esbensen, Mihail Jojatu, Alexandre Lecarme, cellos
Concert - 7:30pm at
Carriage House Violins
Tickets - $20
Tickets available through Carriage House Violins - 617-262-0051
The Boston Cello Quartet was founded in 2010 by four cellists of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. They will perform a program of Spanish and Latin American music by Desenne, Chabrier, Giménez, Granados, Sciortino, Albeniz, Barroso, Corea, and Piazzolla.
Reception to follow.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Mike Block, cello - solo performance
8pm at
Carriage House Violins
Tickets - $20
Tickets available through Carriage House Violins - 617-262-0051
Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike Block is a multi-style cellist and composer. Do not miss this amazing solo performance by the Silk Road Ensemble cellist and Berklee College of Music professor, Mike Block.
Musical selections include classical Bach Suites he learned while studying at Juilliard School, Arabic melodies and improvisations he learned as a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, arrangements of American folk songs he encountered while touring with Mark O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz Trio, and original songs that are born with a fresh contemporary pop influence.
Block will expand your conception of what is possible with the cello, as he attempts to connect the world’s cultures through music.
Reception to follow.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Jules Eskin Tribute
6pm at
Carriage House Violins
Tickets – FREE
2014 marked the 50th anniversary since Boston Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Jules Eskin joined the orchestra. Join his friends and colleagues in honoring his remarkable career.
Reception to follow.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
All Schubert Concert to benefit Music for Food
8pm at
Carriage House Violins
Tickets - $20
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, D821
Blaise Déjardin, cello Andrei Baumann, piano
Schubert Quintet in C Major, D956
The Muir Quartet with Robert Mayes, cello
Join these wonderful artists as they perform these famed works for cello by Schubert. We are thrilled to partner with Music for Food for this event. All of the proceeds from tickets sales will go to the Centre Street Pantry in Newton.
Reception to follow.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
The Cello in the 18th Century
Gallery Talk and Demonstration Guy Fishman, cello and Darcy Kuronen, MFA Musical Instrument Curator
6-7pm at the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Musical Instruments Gallery (Gallery 103)
Tickets - Free with Admission - No Ticket Required
Handel and Haydn Society principal cellist Guy Fishman will discuss the history, repertoire, and musical role of the cello during the Baroque and Classical Eras. Fishman will demonstrate his own Italian instrument of the period, along with cellos in the MFA’s collection by Castagneri (Paris, 1737) and Snoeck (Brussels, about 1720).
