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CAMERATA DEL SOL CHAMBER PLAYERS

Camerata Del Sol Chamber Players to perform at La Vina Winery

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The Camerata Del Sol Chamber Players (CDSCP), under the leadership of violinist and artistic director Daniel Vega-Albela, will take the stage at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17, at La Viña Winery, 4201 S. Highway 28 in Anthony, New Mexico.

Admission for the concert is $10 for adults and free for students and children. Tickets can be purchased at the door, or reserve tickets in advance by emailing director@cameratadelsol.org.

Funds raised during the event will be used to provide instruments to children for Camerata Del Sol’s music education initiatives and to continue offering free monthly concerts at Good Samaritan Society and other senior centers throughout the region, Camerata Del Sol said in a news release.

CDSCP joins forces with clarinetist John Pleasant, who will make his debut with the ensemble during the La Viña concert. Pleasant began playing music at age 7 and has performed in band, orchestra, opera, ballet, big band, musicals, an avant-garde ensemble (1970s), early music on historic instruments and all varieties of chamber music. His studio teaching continued until 2020. In 1980, he began the maintenance, repair and restoration of woodwind instruments.

Playing alongside Pleasant and Vega-Albela will be Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra (LCSO) Concert Master Brigid McCarthy, El Paso Symphony Orchestra (EPSO) principal cellist James Carney and LCSO and ELSO second violinist Mara Arredondo.

“It is always an honor to have the opportunity to work with such first-rate musicians who also happen to be local fixtures of our music scene,” Vega-Albela said. “We are so lucky to have them in our area. Not only are they true pros when it comes to music making, they also happen to be wonderful colleagues and wonderful friends.”

The musicians will open the program with Mozart’s celebrated string quartet No. 19 in C Major, dubbed “Dissonance” for its eerie opening and unusual harmonic choices, the news release said. “Following intermission, Pleasant will join the quartet to perform ‘Souvenirs de voyage,’ a clarinet quintet by American film composer Bernard Herrmann, who collaborated with filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock for many years.

“Those familiar with only the most popular cinematic scores of Bernard Herrmann may be surprised to find there was a tender, lyrical side to the composer,” the news release said. Written in 1967, the clarinet quintet was Herrmann’s final concert work.

The first movement was inspired by A.E. Housman’s poem “On Wenlock Edge,” which was set to music as a song cycle by Vaughan Williams in 1909. The second movement was inspired by John Millington Synge’s novel “Riders to the Sea,” and was also set to music as an opera by Vaughn Williams. The third movement was inspired by the Venetian watercolors of artist J.M.W. Turner.

The classical musicians will be followed by a showcase of soul and folk music, to be performed by Las Cruces natives Amalia Zeitlin (vocals) and Julio Campos (guitar) at 8 p.m.

The concert will be held outdoors, with plenty of room to socially distance. There will be an outdoor wine bar and food trucks onsite, the news release said.

Contact CDSCP at 575-642-3727 and director@cameratadelsol.org.

Visit www.cameratadelsol.org.

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