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SUZANNE CHESSLER

"Since an early age, I've been an
advocate of Charles Ives, and I'm
always pleased to get his music out to
ianist Gilbert Kalish likes to
the public even though it's 100 years
fill his professional life with
old. He's a composer with music that I
the old and the new —
spend a lot of time with and feel
music from the past and
strongly about in terms of the
music of today,
longtime
friends
and
American
selections that I'm playing. I
_ ,
colleagues recently met, pianos built
always like to play American music
long ago and those just built.
because I think we should represent
When the instru-
our own music and
mentalist makes his
our own times.
debut at the Great
"The (Fritz)
Lakes Chamber
Behrend piece that
Music Festival
I'm playing is from
(GLCMF), June 12-
a larger work called
26, he is sure to have
Chamber Concerto.
all those experiences.
Behrend was a
The series of 21
saintly figure whom
concerts is balanced
I admired a great
with enduring clas-
deal. His piece is
sics and fresh
not done very
works. The gener-
much, and it's very
ous roster of cele-
beautiful."
brated performers
Kalish, a native
will put him on
New Yorker and
stage with longtime
graduate of
colleagues and just-
Columbia College,
introduced musi-
has been the pianist
cians. And the pro-
of the Boston
grams, spread out
Symphony
among 2, eight
Chamber Players
b
venues, should offer
since 1969 and was
a variety of pianos.
a founding member
"There are not
of the
any pieces I'm play-
Contemporary
ing in the festival
Chamber Ensemble,
that I don't look
a group devoted to
forward to doing,"
new music that
says Kalish as he
flourished during
prepares to take
the 1960s and '70s.
part in the sixth
The pianist, who
season of the
has performed at
GLCMF, which also
Orchestra Hall, is a
GLCMF first-timer Gilbert Kalish:
features young
frequent guest artist
"One of the nice things about going
chamber groups
with many of the
to festivals that I haven't been to
attending an insti-
world's most distin-
before is spreading out and meeting
tute conducted by
guished chamber
other people in the profession."
the senior players.
ensembles and has
"Beethoven's
had a 31-year part-
nership with mezzo-soprano Jan
Kaleadu Variations is a wonderful
piece that shows Beethoven in a dif-
Degaetani. He maintains longstanding
duos with cellists Timothy Eddy and
ferent frame of mind. It has a large
Joel Krosnick and appears frequently
emotional range with a tragic intro-
with soprano Dawn Upshaw.
duction and then variations on a
very lighthearted theme.
SOUND OF MUSIC on page 88

Special to the Jewish News

The annual Great
Lakes Chamber Music
Festival offers beloved
classics and new works
in a series of concerts
spanning 15 days.

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