PUTNEY-Composer-in-Residence Jörg Widmann returns to Yellow Barn for the final week of this year's summer music festival in Putney. Performances take place in the Big Barn nightly at 7:30 p.m., and 12:30 p.m. for a Saturday matinee.
At the center of Widmann's residency are his Beethoven Studies, a five-part string quartet cycle.
"I'm very interested in a dialogue," said Widmann in a news release, "but not in a nostalgic way, looking back and saying, well, it was so nice in the past. A dialogue is not always only agreeing with each other. Sometimes it's a questioning of the other one."
Inspired by Widmann's project, Artistic Director Seth Knopp has paired Widmann's work with works of Beethoven and some of Widmann's other musical influences, including Schubert and Mendelssohn.
A composer, conductor, and clarinetist, Widmann lives in Munich and Berlin, Germany, but with his music he circumnavigates the globe on a perpetual basis. Since 2015, Yellow Barn has been a place of respite and creativity, he says. Several of his works have been composed at Yellow Barn, and musicians there have planted the seeds for future compositions.
Program details and tickets are available at yellowbarn.org or by calling 802-387-6637. Concerts in the Big Barn, a 75-seat chamber music venue, frequently sell out. Advance purchases are recommended.
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