Presented by Jefferson Academy of Music as the opening concert of the 2008-09 season:

Chamber Music – Sunday Afternoons at the Columbus Museum of Art
2 pm * Sunday * October 19, 2008

AMERNET STRING QUARTET
1st Prize in Banff International String Quartet Competition
Gold Metal in Tokyo International Competition
Chamber Music America – Rural Residency Award
Artists-in-Residence at Florida International University

Nürnberger Nachrichten: “flawless intonation, extraordinary beauty of sound, virtuosic brilliance”.
Washington Post: “Shimmering textures and full-bodied redolence”
Woodstock Times: “I’ve never heard a more compelling performance”

with guest pianist: James Tocco
Artist/Teacher at Cincinnati Conservatory & Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany

Cincinnati Enquirer: “the finest chamber pianist this reviewer has heard”
Los Angeles Times: a patrician (at the keyboard) … fluent … lyrical … driving rhythms”

PROGRAM
SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, D. 87 (1813)
ELLIOTT CARTER: String Quartet No. 5 (1995)
FRANCK: Piano Quintet in F Minor (1879)

Tickets: $24 ($17 for seniors and Museum members)
Student Tickets $10
And, if you are a music teacher, call this opportunity to the attention of your students. Thanks.
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Chamber Music Columbus presents Marc-André Hamelin, piano, at the beautiful Southern Theatre:

Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Southern Theatre
21 East Main Street at South High Street, Columbus

Saturday, October 25 2008, 8 p.m.

Joseph Haydn Sonata in F major, H. XVI:23
Joseph Haydn Sonata in B flat major, H. XVI:41
Alexis Weissenberg Sonata in a State of Jazz
Frédéric Chopin Barcarolle in F-sharp major, op. 60
Frédéric Chopin Ballade no. 3 in A-flat major, op. 47
Marc-André Hamelin Etude no. 8, Erlkönig (after Goethe)
Marc-André Hamelin Etude no. 7, After Tchaikovsky
Leopold Godowsky Symphonic Metamorphoses on Johann Strauss’s “Wine, Women, and Song”

Tickets: $35 (Main Floor), $30 (Loge and First Balcony), $15 (Second Balcony), and those 25 and under and students half price. Single tickets are available only through the CAPA Ticket Office (614-469-0939) and TicketMaster. Season tickets (full or partial seasons, mix or match with a minimum of 4 tickets to any of the concerts) are also still available through Chamber Music Columbus at 614-267-2267.
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Chamber Music Columbus in its 61st season presents the Claremont Piano Trio, on Saturday November 15, at 8 PM at the Southern Theatre. Twin Sisters Emily and Julia Bruskin formed the trio with Donna Kwong at the Juilliard School in 1999. First winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo Robinson International Trio Award, will perform works by Haydn, Schoenfield and Dvorak.

Chamber Music Columbus has a special offer to selected corporations and organizations: A discount of “buy one get second 50% off” or 25% off on single regular priced $15-35 tickets. Students and those 25 and under half price. To obtain this discount please ask for “J” tickets at CAPA: 614.469.0939 or TicketMaster. Further information on www.cmcolumbus.org, or 614.267.2267.
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A Message To All Columbus Symphony Orchestra Musician Supporters
The Musicians of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra want to thank all of you who gave us your email addresses last summer as a means of future communications. By now most of you probably know through local media that we agreed to accept massive wage and benefit cuts in a new three year contract with the CSO board of trustees.

Last January the CSO board announced its intention to fire 22 full-time musicians and exact a 30% compensation cut from the 31 who would remain beginning this season. After fighting against them for as long and as hard as we could, in the new contract no Musician will be fired but we agreed to accept compensation cuts on an annual basis of about 25%.

Why did we decide to make such an agreement at this time? One concern was the prospect of the cancellation of the remainder of this season, and perhaps even the next. This could have had a devastating effect on the orchestra we are trying to save. Also, after living without salary and benefits since last June, a small but significant number of musicians were facing potential ruin due to their inability to obtain health insurance for themselves and their families due to serious pre-existing conditions. Others were facing dire financial circumstances. Because we care about each other and have always acted as a solid group, even those of us who did not want to accept these painful cuts voted for the new agreement to help those who were in serious trouble.

When the CSO returns to regular operation this December, it will have been shut down for 6 months. Now that an agreement has been reached with the board, we want to build peace with them and work together to strengthen the CSO in this ever worsening economy. Now that we have made this enormous financial sacrifice, we hope that you and many others will step up and support us as much as you can. We urge you to support the CSO by purchasing concert subscriptions for this season as soon as they are available and by sending donations directly to the CSO now. It will be very difficult to resume operations in time to begin the season and any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for supporting us this year throughout this long crisis. We hope you will remain interested in supporting the Columbus Symphony Orchestra for many years to come.

On behalf of the Musicians,

Douglas Fisher, President
Central Ohio Federation of Musicians, Local 103, AFM
Member, Columbus Symphony Orchestra

Columbus Symphony Orchestra Committee
Jim Akins, Chair
Ken Matsuda
Cindy Stolba
Chris Saetti
Mike Buccicone

Contact the CSO to purchase tickets and to send donations at: www.columbussymphony.com
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONNECTION, ADULT PROGRAM

FALL 2008 SESSION, Friday, November 7, Friday, November 14, Thursday, November 20, and Friday, November 21 (concert) (7:00-9:00 p.m.) – (Fee – $150)

If you have adult students or know of adult musicians who are interested in playing chamber music, please encourage them to register for our fall 2008 session.

Meeting at St John’s Episcopal Church in Worthington, OH, CMC’s adult programs focus on the joy of playing music and meeting other adults with a similar passion for reading and playing music together. Because chamber music playing means playing in a small group, each player has their own part and ensemble sizes vary from three to six players. Chamber Music is accessible at even the earliest abilities and the repertoire is vast allowing younger ability players to join in on the fun while advanced players can meet excellent challenges both technically and musically.

For more information and to sign up, please visit the Chamber Music Connection website, www.cmconnection.org for an application form, or feel free to contact us by email.

Sincerely,
Leslie Maaser (Adult program Coordinator) email: Bmaaser@aol.com,
Deborah Price ( Founder/Artistic Director) email: price242@aol.com
Rob Frink (volunteer) email: rfrink@beaumontmetalworks.com