Friday, November 5, 2010

Come Hear Us In Boston!

Julie and I grew up in Boston (actually in Cambridge...), and so it's always fun for us to come "home" to play. You just can't beat the combination of lots of old friends and my mom's home cooking :-)

On Sunday (11/7, 3pm) we get to give a concert at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, but this won't be my Jordan Hall debut because I've given about 57 youth orchestra concerts there already. Also Julie and I played in a string quartet together in high school called the Firebird Quartet (maybe my mom can unearth some shiny red shirt pictures!), and that group got to perform in Jordan for the pilot episode of the now extremely successful radio show "From the Top" with Christopher O'Reilly.

But it will be the Claremont Trio's Jordan Hall debut, and we are thrilled to be making it as part of the illustrious Celebrity Series of Boston. Quite a name! The Celebrity Series was also a huge part of my childhood. My family always subscribed, and that's where I first heard the Guarneri, Juilliard, and Emerson Quartets and the Beaux Arts and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trios. A concert that Pamela Frank gave of all of the Brahms Violin Sonatas has stuck in my head for probably twenty years now... so inspiring!!

Our concert will be part of Rob Kapilow's "What Makes it Great" Series, and it'll be all about Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio. On the first half Rob will give a talk about what actually makes this piece great (with us playing Vanna White and illustrating his musical points), and then on the second half we'll perform the whole trio. Should be really fun! Hope to see all of you Boston fans there... except you're probably already planning to come, because my dad has made it his personal quest to sell out every Boston show we ever play. We Bruskin twins are lucky girls...

http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_performers_2010_2011/wmig_claremonttrio.htm

4 Comments:

At 8:54 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Better get your tickets fast! There aren't many left!

Rufus Jones

 
At 3:22 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Firebird Quartet sounds kinda baaaaad, but in a good kinda way. It's got that blade-runner kind of vibe, but in a strictly classical music kind of way;-)/...

 
At 3:41 PM, Blogger Debbi said...

I loved your concert on Sunday! First time hearing your trio and you were superb. We took our 14 year old son who studies piano (despite his protests) and he must have really liked the concert as well, because when we got home he started playing the piano part by ear. .. .

 
At 11:29 AM, Blogger Tom Ellis said...

The Archduke!! I wish I lived a little closer to Boston. That Beethoven masterpiece is probably my favorite trio ever, and to hear the three of you play it would be a sublime experience! Thanks once again for sharing your lives with all of us fans...

 

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