Southwest Society Announces ‘92-93 Chamber Season

Guest artists will grace the Southwest Chamber Music Society’s 1992-93 season, announced this week. The society will present nine programs in each of two locations--the Salmon Recital Hall at Chapman University in Orange and the Pasadena Presbyterian Church--and four special events at various venues.

The guests will include composers Alexander Goehr, Mel Powell, Mark Waldrep and Charles Wuorinen; singers Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Lucy Shelton and Dana Marsh, lutenist James Tyler and conductor Oliver Knussen.

Regular performers will be violinists Peter Marsh and Sheryl Staples, violist Jan Karlin, cellist Roger Lebow, bassist Paul Zibits, flutist Dorothy Stone, oboist Stuart Horn, clarinetist David Howard, bassoonist Leslie Lashinsky, hornist Jeff von der Schmidt and pianists Gloria Cheng and Leonard Stein.

The season will begin Sept. 17 in Orange County and Sept. 19 in Pasadena, and will conclude June 17 and 18, respectively. The Pasadena venue, at 585 E. Colorado Blvd., is a new one for the society, which sold out its 1991-92 season at the Pasadena Library.

The schedule for Orange County:

* Sept. 17: Mel Powell’s Nocturne for Violin and Three Madrigals for Flute; Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony in E (transcribed for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello and strings by Webern); Brahms’ Quartet in G minor for Piano and Strings.

* Nov. 1 (the Albert Dominguez Memorial Concert): Holst’s “Jesu Sweet, Now Will I Sing”; Britten’s “The Heart of the Matter”; Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet.

* Nov. 20: Lucy Shelton, soprano; Oliver Knussen, conductor: Purcell’s “Musick for a while”; Alexander Goehr’s “Sing, Ariel” (U.S. premiere).

* Jan. 21, 1993: Chausson’s Poeme for Violin and Piano; John Harbison’s Sonata for Piano; Ravel’s “Tzigane” for Violin and Piano; Shostakovich’s Trio in E minor, Opus 67.

* Feb. 25: Satie’s “Trois Gymnopedies”; Milhaud’s Sonatina for Oboe and Piano; Gyorgy Ligeti’s Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano; Schubert’s Trio in E-flat, D. 929.

* March 25: Silvestre Revueltas’ String Quartet No. 4 (“Musica di Feria”); Piston’s Quintet for Flute and Strings; Dvorak’s “American” Quartet.

* April 16: Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano; Charles Wuorinen, conductor: Stravinsky’s “Suite Italienne” for violin and piano; Dowland’s Lute Songs; Wuorinen’s “A Winter’s Tale” (world premiere).

* May 20: Beethoven’s Sonata for Cello, Opus 102, No. 1; Sofia Gubaidulina’s “Quasi Hoquetus” for Viola, Bassoon and Piano; Schumann’s Trio in D minor, Opus 63.

* June 17: Honegger’s Sonata for Clarinet; Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds; Schoenberg’s Quintet for Winds, Opus 26.

Tickets: $14 for single concerts, $114 for the series.

The special events will be a two-day residency at Tenaya Lodge in Yosemite National Park, Oct. 3 and 4; a New Year’s Eve Benefit in Pasadena Dec. 31, and Arroyo Seco Day at the Southwest Museum in Highland Park, May 16.

For information and/or a free season brochure, call (800) 726-7147.