Basically Beethoven Festival

Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) presents the 29th Annual Basically Beethoven Festival, a series of free classical chamber music concerts beginning Sunday, July 5 through July 26.

The 2009 Basically Beethoven Festival will be back in Fair Park ’s Texas Discovery Garden at 3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. , Dallas , TX 75210 . The doors open at 2:00 PM for the 2:30 pre-concert recital, For the Love of Music, presented by young local music competition winners. At 3:00PM, the chamber music performances begin.

All concerts are FREE TO THE PUBLIC, including free admission to the Texas Discovery Gardens and free parking. No reservations or tickets are required. For more information about this year’s series, call FACP at 214.520.2219, email bbf@fineartschamberplayers.org or visit our website, www.fineartschamberplayers.org.

JULY 5

2:30 P.M. - For the Love of Music: Violinist Christina Kwon, Winner of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Competition

3:00 P.M. - Imperial Brass plays Beethoven, Holst, Sousa, Bach and Gabrieli

JULY 12

2:30 P.M. - For the Love of Music: Dallas Suzuki Institute

3:00 P.M. - Bax – Adagio non troppo from String Quartet in E Major Beethoven - Quintet for Strings in C Major op. 29 Jerome Kern Songs arranged by the composer for string quartet

JULY 19

2:30 P.M. - For the Love of Music: Violinist Jacqueline Morant Concertmaster of the YouTube Orchestra

3:00 P.M. - Beethoven - Trio for violin, cello and piano in B-flat Major, op. 11
Popper - Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano, op. 66
Beethoven - Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen

JULY 26

2:30 P.M. - For the Love of Music: Flutist Louis Lu, Winner of the Dallas Asian American Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition

3:00 P.M. - Beethoven/Rosenblatt - Adagio for oboe and strings from the sketch for Beethoven's Oboe Concerto
Mozart - Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F Major, K 370 Beethoven - Folk Songs for voice, violin, cello and piano

All 3:00 PM concerts feature musicians from the Dallas & Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, The Dallas Opera Orchestra, area university faculties and professional freelance musicians.