The Santa Barbara Music Club’s 42nd season continues on January 14th with a celebration of Claude Debussy, to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of his birth.
The program begins with piano duo Donna Massello-Chiacos and Lynne Garrett performing the delightful Petite Suite, a four-movement work written originally for piano four hands in 1889, premiered by Debussy with Jean-Jacques Durand, pianist but also publisher. Soprano Carol Ann Manzi and pianist Betty Oberacker interpret the Proses lyriques, an exquisitely subtle and sensual song cycle composed in 1892-9.
Pianist Robert Else will then present four works from Préludes, Book I, written in 1909-1910, all sensitive depictions of enigmatic images. Concluding the program will be Debussy’s final composition, the Sonate for Violin and Piano, with Nicole McKenzie and Betty Oberacker. sbmusicclub.org
