@ 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 pairs two masterworks of the clarinet quintet repertoire. Brahms’s autumnal Op. 115, composed in 1891 after a long retreat from public composition and inspired by clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Op. 10, was written just four years later by a young composer steeped in late-Victorian elegance but possessed of a uniquely warm, folk-inflected lyricism. Where Brahms distills German Romanticism to its reflective essence — hushed yearning themes, tender slow movements, and a quietly resolved finale — Coleridge-Taylor answers with ardent, songlike writing that is formally assured yet emotionally generous, blossoming from poised opening themes to a hopeful, affirmative close. Though separated by nationality and experience, both composers treat the clarinet as a human narrator in intimate dialogue with the string quartet, and together these two quintets chart a shared chamber ideal: music that speaks close and true. Program: Samuel-Coleridge Taylor, Clarinet Quintet (1906) Brahms Clarinet Quintet (1891) Artists: Sangwon Lee, clarinet Grant Houston and Yoonhee Lee, violins, Anna Griffis, viola Joseph Gotoff, cello 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.
