Danielson Gallery of the Biltmore Hotel. May 3, 2013, 8:00 p.m.
On Friday night, May 3rd, 2013, the Chameleon String Trio: Misha Vitenson, Michael Klotz and Iris van Eck will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Vitenson, violin, Klotz, viola and van Eck, cello, will play a special arrangement for string trio, by Dmitry Sitkovetsky, instead of the original written for keyboard in 1741. The performance will be held at 8:00 p.m. in the Danielson Gallery of the Biltmore Hotel.
Of the three performers, Vitenson and Klotz are members of the faculty of Florida International University’s School of Music and Ms. van Eck is principal cellist of the Symphony of the Americas.
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. The Variations are named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer.
It seems that a German Count Keiserling was hosting a visiting musician, Goldberg, taking lessons from the famous Bach. Supposedly written by Bach for the count, Goldberg would play these variations when he, the count, had restless and sleepless nights. Although the story may have been apocryphal, they have retained Goldberg’s name ever since.
Tickets are $30 general admission and $40 preferred seating. Students 18 years old and younger are admitted free of charge. College students, graduate students and New World Symphony Fellows pay $5. Tickets can be ordered by phone at 305.669.1376 or on line at www.miamibachsociety.org.
Miami Bach Society at the Danielson Gallery
1200 Anastasia Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305.669.1376
www.miamibachsociety.org
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