@ Buy Tickets! Doors open at 6pm, Concert begins at 6:30 | Advanced Tickets: $30 | Door Tickets: $35 | $15 for students and free for kids under 10 at the door Tonight’s program traces a historical arc through three transformations of the clarinet trio: from Bruch’s twilight Romanticism to Khachaturian’s exotic modernism to LeFanu’s contemporary lyricism. Max Bruch composed his Eight Pieces, Op. 83, in 1909 in his seventies for his son, a clarinetist, offering the aging Romantic a final moment of lyrical reflection. These pieces favor rich, mellow instrumental hues and autumnal maturity of expression, with melancholy opening themes that resolve into quiet nobility—a farewell to a musical language Bruch had perfected across a lifetime. Aram Khachaturian’s Trio, composed in 1932 while still a student at the Moscow Conservatory, answers with a younger voice steeped in a different inheritance: a blend of classical form with exotic folk elements that speaks of Eastern Eurasian traditions. Where Bruch distills, Khachaturian ornaments—his rhapsodic first movement unfolds through gypsy-like improvisations, and his finale spirals through variations on Uzbek folk melody. Nearly sixty years on, Nicola LeFanu’s Lullaby for clarinet and piano and Nocturne for cello and piano (1988) return to intimacy and restraint. Written in an era that has absorbed both her predecessors, these miniatures speak quietly but assuredly: music that honors the clarinet and cello as human voices in conversation, yet in a contemporary idiom stripped to essentials. Together, these three works chart a shared chamber ideal—the belief that truth lives in melody, color, and close musical dialogue. Program: Nino Rota, Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (1973) Nicola LeFanu, Nocturne for cello and piano and Lullaby for clarinet and piano (1988) Max Bruch, Pieces for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 83 Artists: Sangwon Lee, clarinet Joseph Gotoff, cello Yundu Wang, piano The Outer Cape Chamber Music Festival at PAAM brings world-class chamber music to Provincetown through an intimate concert series that uniquely integrates with the museum’s visual art exhibitions. Led by cellist Joseph Gotoff, the series features concerts over two weeks in early summer, performed by world-class musicians with ties to Cape Cod. Each concert is specifically curated to converse with the art on display at the museum.
