Caramoor: Chamber Feast

Alumni of our Evnin Rising Stars mentoring program — joined by New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinetist Anthony McGill — serve up an evening of chamber treats! They perform works by Dvořák and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, an English composer born in 1875 to an English mother and a Sierra Leonean father, who achieved international fame in his time but remains unfamiliar to today’s concertgoers. McGill, who has been championing his beautiful clarinet quintet, says: “Not only is [Coleridge-Taylor’s music] luscious — it has that romantic feel — it has sounds I can relate to as well. It sounds like the experience of someone I can identify with, someone who’s a Black man. Those melodies are singing to you directly, whoever you are.”

Program

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Quintet in F-sharp Minor for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 10
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 80

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