Snowbound? Already suffering the terrors of cabin fever?
Tune in to The Classical Network for today’s Noontime Concert and be transported, as I am joined by Mimi Stillman, flutist and artistic director of the Dolce Suono Ensemble. Mimi will be our tour guide for a conflation of two concerts in DSE’s ongoing “The Americas Project/Música en tus Manos,” explorations of chamber music of Latin America and the United States.
The program will feature music from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and the U.S., with a work by Philadelphia composer Andrea Clearfield. We’ll also take a musical journey to Hawaii with the world premiere of Michael-Thomas Fumai’s “Manookian Murals,” a DSE commission. Each movement was inspired by a mural of artist Arman Tateos Manookian (1904-1931) Painter of Hawaii. We’ll hear “Red Sails,” “The Arrival of Captain Cook,” “Hawaiian Boy and Girl,” and “Flight of the Flamingos.”
“Música en tus Manos” (literally, “Music in Your Hands”) brings DSE together with partner organizations for engagement initiatives with Philadelphia’s Latino community. You can learn more about the project, as well as DSE’s upcoming concerts in Bryn Mawr (on March 17) and Philadelphia (on March 21, with Philadelphia Orchestra principal clarinetist Ricardo Morales) at dolcesuono.com.
Put away your snow blower and mix up the margaritas and Mai Tais. We’re headed to warmer climes on today’s Noontime Concert, with Mimi Stillman and the Dolce Suono Ensemble, beginning at 12:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
IMAGE: Arman Manookian’s “Hawaiian Boy and Girl”