Maine Mountain Chamber Music Family Concert

On Saturday evening, June 1, 2019, Maine Mountain Chamber Music will celebrate its 17th year of concerts in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington.  The concert features Gianluca Pane, violin, and Katie Kennedy, cello, with Maine Mountain Chamber Music co-directors Laurie Kennedy, viola, and Yuri Funahashi, piano.  The program will include Ernő Dohnányi’s Serenade for String Trio in C major, and Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet in c minor.

Brahms completed the opening movement and the Andante movement of the Piano Quartet in 1855/56, the Scherzo somewhere between 1857 and 1861, and the Finale in 1874.  The Quartet is known for its thrilling intensity, its relentless rhythms and its delicious severity.  Suspense and surprise attack characterize much of the music beginning with the opening movement's brooding introduction and the startling crash of the main theme pounding with thunder and ominous rumblings.  After a madly driving scherzo, the third movement…