While Whitaker Center Sunoco Performance Theater allows ample room for a comfortable social distancing, we plan to follow PA governor’s guidelines on the acceptable number of people for indoor gatherings which may change in the coming weeks. If this number is below 150 by September 25 and November 5 (ten days prior to each of our Fall concerts), we will request RSVP to confirm your intention to attend live either via email or phone call, and offer this opportunity to those who respond first. Patrons who RSVP later indicating their preference for attending in person, will be offered access to the high quarlity video and audio recordings of the performance a week after the concert, and will be given a priority at the next concert if the limits on gatherings continue. Option to purchase the access to either audio or video recording of the performance will be also available to those who are not comfortable attending public events even within the PA governor's COVID health safety guidelines.
Mark Markham, Piano
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 7:30 PM
Whitaker Center
"Dances and Improvisations"
Bach: French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Chopin: Andante Spianato e Grande Polonaise, Op. 22
Poulenc:
Improvisations Nos. 1, 2, 7, 12, 13, 14 and 15
Valse Improvisation sur le nom de BACH
Improvisations from the American Songbook by Mr. Markham announced from the stage
Sponsor: Hilary M. Simpson
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Sunday, November 15, 2020, 4 PM
Whitaker Center
Heitor Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 5 (1931)
Manuel M. Ponce: Estrellita and Gavota
Gabriela Ortiz: La Calaca
Astor Piazzolla: Four for Tango for String Quartet (1987)
Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 1
Sponsors: John and Annie Standley
Tabea Debus, recorder and Paul Morton, theorbo
Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 7:30 PM
Whitaker Center
“Music for a While”
Music from the Age of William Shakespeare
by Purcell, Dowland, Locke, Smith, Schop, and Handel
Sponsor: Estelle Hartranft
Sinta Quartet
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 7:30 PM
Whitaker Center
“Around the World in 80 Minutes”
Music by Schubert, Alexander Glazunov, György Ligeti, Thierry Escaich, David Kechley, Marc Mellits, Gabriel Pierne,
Annika Socolofsky, and Roger Zare
Sponsor: Dr. William Anderson in Memory of Dotty Anderson
Verona Quartet
Winner of the 2020 CMA Cleveland Quartet Award
Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 4 PM
Whitaker Center
Antonín Dvořák: Cypresses (selections)
Karl Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 2
Intermission
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet Op. 131
Sponsor: Lois Lehrman Grass
Stuart & Friends
Stuart Malina, Piano / Alexander Kerr & Peter Sirotin, Violins
Michael Isaac Strauss, Viola / Julian Schwarz, Cello
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:30 PM
Whitaker Center
Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat Major, KV. 454
Ernest Bloch: Suite Hébraïque for Viola and Piano
Erich Wolfgang Korngold:
Much Ado About Nothing Suite arranged for Cello and Piano by Julian Schwarz
Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15
Sponsors: Randolf H. & Virginia P. Aires
