Geneva Music Festival 2024 Season: Light and Dark
Thursday, June 6, 7:30PM
Friday, June 7, 7:30PM
Night and Day
Clara Lyon and Geoffrey Herd, violin;
Jimmy Thompson and Josh Newburger, viola;
Clive Greensmith and Hannah Collins, cello;
Anna Petrova, piano
Haydn Sunrise Quartet
Mark Olivieri, Commission
Alexander Scriabin Sonata-Fantasy No. 2
Kaija Saariaho, Light and Matter
Schönberg: "Verklärte Nacht"
Join GMF resident artists for music that moves from morning to night. We begin with a musical evocation of daybreak; Joseph Haydn’s Quartet in B Flat Op. 76, No. 4 (“Sunrise,”) opens with a gentle melody rising out of a surrounding harmonic halo, before revealing its full brilliance. The Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor by Alexander Scriabin moves through both moods and modes to juxtapose light and dark, while contemporary composers offer their own interpretations of such contrasts. We close, of course, as darkness falls with Arnold Schoenberg’s evocative Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”), which captures the moonlit scene depicted by Richard Dehmal’s eponymous poem.
All programs subject to change.
$35 adult; $10 college student with ID; FREE for youth aged 18 and younger
Buy 8 or more tickets across all concerts in a single booking and get 15% off.
More information and tickets available at GenevaMusicFestival.com.
Wheelchair accessible.
