Southwest Chamber Music Society to Split Performance Sites

The Southwest Chamber Music Society, in residency at Chapman College, will split its 1989-90 season between the Orange campus and the Newport Harbor Art Museum in Newport Beach. It will offer five concerts at Chapman and seven at Newport Harbor. Four of the programs at the two places will be identical.

Two West Coast premieres will highlight the season, which opens Oct. 19 at Chapman and Oct. 21 at Newport Harbor. They will be Hans Werner Henze’s “L’autunno” for Wind Quintet (Jan. 18 at Chapman, Jan. 21 at Newport Harbor), and Charles Wuorinen’s Sonata for Violin and Piano (April 5 at Chapman, April 7 at Newport Harbor).

Five of the society’s members also will be on the music faculty at Chapman: clarinetist Michael Grego, horn player Jeff von der Schmidt (artistic director of the group), violinist Peter Marsh, cellist Richard Treat and bassist Paul Zibits.

The other members of the society are flutist Dorothy Stone, oboist Stuart Horn, bassoonist Leslie Lashinsky, harpist Amy Shulman, soprano Donna Robin, percussionist Karen Ervin-Pershing, pianists Gloria Cheng and Albert Dominguez, violinist Kimiyo Takeya and violist Jan Karlin.

All concerts will begin at 8 p.m. Season subscriptions for seven Newport Harbor concerts and the final Chapman College program will cost $84. Season subscriptions for the five concerts at Chapman will cost $48. Tickets for individual concerts at either place will cost $12 for the general public and $6 for full-time students and seniors.

For further information, write to the Southwest Chamber Music Society, P.O. Box 94474, Pasadena, Calif., 91109-4474, or call (213) 669-5303.

The schedule:

-- Oct. 19 at Chapman College and Oct. 21 at Newport Harbor Art Museum: Bach’s Chaconne (from the Violin Partita No. 2), both in its original solo violin form and as transcribed for piano by Ferruccio Busoni; Krenek’s “Lachrymosa,” Op. 48, for soprano and piano; four works by Schoenberg: Six Little Pieces for Piano, Op. 19; the Fantasy for Violin, Op. 47, “Herzgewachse,” for high soprano, Op. 20, and Piano Pieces, Op. 33a and 33b. Also on the program: Gershwin’s Piano Preludes and songs, including “The Man I Love” and “Summertime.”

-- Nov. 18 at Newport Harbor: Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Bartok’s Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano; Adagio from Berg’s “Chamber Concerto.”

-- Jan. 18, 1990 at Chapman College and Jan. 20 at Newport Harbor: Irving Fine’s Partita for Wind Quintet; Prokofiev’s Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 94; Zenze’s “L’autunno” for Wind Quintet; Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet.

-- Feb. 10 at Newport Harbor: Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 5; Roger Session’s Quintet for two violins, two violas and cello; Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet, Op. 57.

-- Feb. 24 at Newport Harbor: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 10, No. 3, and Horn Sonata, Op., 17; Ingolf Dahl’s Divertimento for Viola and Piano; and Leroy Southers’ Duo Concertante for Viola and Horn.

-- April 5 at Chapman and April 7 at Newport Harbor: Brahms’ Piano Quartet in C minor; Bartok’s “Out of Doors” for piano, and Wuorinen’s Sonata for Violin and Piano.

-- May 10 at Chapman and May 12 at Newport Harbor: Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478; Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat, Opus 47; Elliott Carter’s “Night Fantasies” for piano and Duo for Violin and Piano.

-- June 9 at Chapman : Stravinsky’s transcription for two pianos of his ballet “Le Sacre du Printemps,” Krenek’s Piano Sonata No. 7, Boulez’s Piano Sonata No. 2.