WASHINGTON -- The Fall Chamber Music Series kicks-off on Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. ET with a concert coordinated by Staff Sgt. Timothy Huizenga, a French horn player in the Marine Band.
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“This unique program is full of music that inspires hope, even as much of the music was born out of adversity,” Huizenga said. “The first piece is a beautiful setting of Ludwig Rellstab’s poem Auf Dem Strom, by Franz Schubert for horn, voice, and piano, written as a tribute and elegy to the late Ludwig van Beethoven. The text is one of farewell, love and loss, but ultimately finding peace in what lies ahead.”
“David Bruce’s Gumboots, for clarinet and strings, is an example of how something beautiful and life-enhancing can come from something far more negative," he said. "The piece was inspired by ‘gumboot dancing,’ a form of dance born out of the terrible labor conditions for miners in apartheid South Africa. Mark O’Connor’s Appalachia Waltz is a moving and undoubtedly American-sounding piece for string trio, influenced by both Scandinavian and Appalachian folk fiddling, and the College Hornpipe is a lively fiddle tune that will make you want to get up and dance!"
The concert concludes with Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, which he wrote as a birthday gift to his wife Cosima. From the distant call of the horn in Schubert’s Auf Dem Strom, to the foot stomping dance styles of Gumboots and College Hornpipe, to the cascading rising melody in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Huizenga promises attendees and online viewers they will leave feeling inspired and hopeful!
The concert is free and open to the public. The Marine Barracks Annex is located at 1053 7th St. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. Free parking is available under the overpass on 7th Street, across from the Annex. Please allow extra time for I.D. checks at the gate. Mask, vaccination and social distancing required.
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