November 27, 8:00 pm
First Pres Santa Monica     

Franz Joseph Haydn
  String Quartet in C, op 76 No. 3 "Emperor"(1797)
Johann Strauss/A. Schoenberg
  Kaiser Waltz (1889/1925)          
Arnold Schoenberg
  Two Songs, Op 1 (1898)
Hans Eisler
  Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain (1941)
Schoenberg
  Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (1942)

Denali Quartet
Dean Elzinga, bass baritone
Gloria Cheng; piano
Pamela Vliek-Martchev, flute
Donald Foster, clarinet
Yevgeniy Milyavskiy, piano

Texts: Karl Michael von Levetzow, Lord Byron: "`Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm`d with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a nameless thing: So abject -- yet alive! Is this the man of thousand thrones..."

A burnished hymn to "enflame the hearts of Austrians" gained an unintended purpose, as the Enlightenment's concept of Empire turned dark in the 20th century. Hear the wealth, beauty, sober tears and the price. Tereza Stanislav will give her Denali debut performance and Dean Elzinga returns having gained national acclaim.