Chamber Series Three

Daniel Giacobbe, clarinet
Dina Kostic, violin
Michelle Skinner, violin
Kaitlin Springer, viola
Ashley Garritson, cello

At the core of everything Mozart wrote was the human voice. His sense of drama, his ability to tell a story, and his extraordinary gift of melody are always primary features. So it is unsurprising that those very qualities are at the fore in his quintet for clarinet and string quartet. The clarinet, with its innate humanity, embedded in an all-string environment makes for one of the repertoire’s most gratifying sonic landscapes—navigated with breathtaking expertise, tenderness, virtuosity, and wit by an ailing master. We begin with a lovely string quartet of Florence Price, a trail-blazing African-American composer who with her extraordinary talent and charm chipped away at convention and expectation with music whose voice is both distinctly American, and immediately appealing.