Find refuge from our reluctant spring with sunny music this Saturday, April 21 at 7:30PM when Capital City Concerts presents Treasures performed by six of the country's finest artists featuring Metropolitan Opera Orchestra French hornist Brad Gemeinhardt, with violinists Laurie Smukler and Emily Smith, violist Marka Gustavsson, cellist Natasha Brofsky and pianist Robert McDonald.

The concert opens with a distinctly sunny work, Papa Haydn's String Quartet No. 67 in F. He was the inventor of the string quartet work and this was the last one he wrote. Similarly, Robert Schumann created something entirely new when he wrote his monumental Piano Quintet in E flat major. It is joyful, heroic, with rhapsodic shifts form darkness to light, much like our Vermont weather. Brahms Trio for French horn, violin, and piano was a summer creation and it shows. He composed it in the mountain town of Lictenthal over many weeks and would split his days between long mountain hikes and composing. He was known to point out the exact spot where the gorgeous opening pastoral theme came to him.

For more information and to charge tickets ($15-$25) go to www.capitalcityconcerts.org. Tickets may also be purchased (cash or check only) in person at Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, or arrive early for tickets at the door.

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