Violist Sharon Wei and pianist Angela Park will give a concert at the Berger Center on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 1:30 pm. Both performers are truly outstanding, and are famous musicians in Canada. Sharon is now teaching at Stanford, but is rapidly becoming well known as a superb violist in the Bay Area.

The program – Rebecca Clarke, Sonata for Viola and Piano; Schubert, Litanei; Vaughn Williams, Six Studies in English Folksongs; and Brahms, Sonata in E flat major Opus 120 no. 2 – is rich and warm.
The only composer who might be unfamiliar is Rebecca Clarke. She is one of those rather misty figures in British music to whom musical snobs will pay lip service as a name which is recognized but who is completely unknown to the general public. Her most impressive and well-known work is the Sonata for Viola and Piano written in 1918-19. When it was first performed Clarke became a cause celebré, both in England and America – partly because of the beauty of the music and partly because, at that time, a female composer was a genuine novelty. The music is definitely in the style of English composers of the time, gentle, melodic, and reminiscent of the folk tunes of Britain.

This concert is open to Oakmont residents and their friends.
– Bob Hayden