kicks off a three-week run of virtual concerts beginning Saturday, Nov. 7, with the string trio of Tim Kantor, Michelle Abraham and Nicholas Mariscal.
The trio will pay homage to Beethoven in a concert that includes Haydn's String Trio in E flat Major and Duo for Violin and Cello by the young New York Baroque-style composer Jessie Montgomery.
The friends, which announced in mid-August that they were taking their 2020-21 season online in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, will stream the concert beginning at 5:45 p.m. Saturday.
Admission is free to see the 蜜柚直播-based trio 鈥斕齰iolinists Kantor, who teaches at the University of 蜜柚直播 Fred Fox School of Music, and Abraham, 蜜柚直播 Symphony Orchestra's associate concertmaster, and cellist Mariscal, who was recently named assistant principal cello of the Milwaukee Symphony.
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鈥 Double bass player joins pianist Kelly Lin at 5 p.m. Nov. 21 for a recital that includes several works for double bass penned by Foley. The pair also will perform Bach's Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor.
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