The Gualala Arts Chamber Music Program continues in March with guest artists Wyatt Underhill, violin, and Robert Howard, cello. The online! only concert is set for Sunday, March 14, 2021, beginning at 4 pm. The concert is FREE. Donations to Gualala  Arts will be appreciated. Connection information (including a link) will be available beginning Friday afternoon at GualalaArts.org.

The planned program will include the “Suite Italienne” by Igor Stravinsky, and “Sonata for Violin and Cello” by Maurice Ravel. Both pieces were (initially) written in Paris in 1920—pretty unusual! Stravinsky’s music first appeared as the ballet score to “Pulcinella”. He later arranged the same music multiple times, including this rarely performed version made for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Both highlights from the Parisian 20’s, this is the musical backdrop to Woody Allen’s “Midnight In Paris”. Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Ravel, Picasso, Chanel, Satie, Matisse, and Cocteau all lived there, knew each other, and fed off each other’s work—a concentration of talent and innovation unlike any before or since.