Upcoming Events
Beethoven Center Noontime Concerts
October 5, 2023
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
5th floor Beethoven Center, MLK Library
Free admission
Beethoven, Bagatelle WoO 59 “Für Elise” (1810)
Beethoven, String Quartet in F Major (Beethoven’s 1801 arrangement of the Piano Sonata
op. 14 no. 1), movement 1 (performed by Catalina Barraza and Erica Buurman, violins;
Bill Palmer, viola; and Anna Bartley, cello)
Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E Major, op. 14 no. 1 (1798)
Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E Major, op. 109 (1820)
Frank Lévy, piano
Frank Lévy of SJSU’s keyboard faculty presents a program of Beethoven’s piano music. This concert offers the rare opportunity to hear a movement Beethoven’s own string quartet arrangement of his Piano Sonata in E Major, op. 14 no. 1, alongside the original sonata.
Each of the Beethoven Center’s Noontime Concerts features a short lecture and performance followed by an informal coffee reception. These events are free – all are welcome!
Beethoven Center Noontime Concerts
November 2, 2023
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
5th floor Beethoven Center, MLK Library
Free admission
Beethoven, Six Songs, op. 75 (1809)
Beethoven, selections from 25 Scottish Songs, op. 108 (1815–18):
- No. 7 “Highland Laddie”
- No. 14 “O, How Can I be Blithe”
- No. 15 “O Cruel Was my Father”
- No. 24 “Again, my Dyre”
Jacque Wilson Scharlach (lyric mezzo soprano)
Simona Snitkovskaya (piano)
SJSU faculty members Jacque Wilson Scharlach and Simona Snitkovskaya present a program of Beethoven’s songs, including selections from his rarely performed Scottish folksong settings.
The Six Songs op. 75 are musical settings of poems by two German Romantic poets, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christian Ludwig Reissig. The Scottish Songs op. 108 are among the dozens of folksongs that Beethoven arranged for voice and piano with additional parts for violin and cello at the request of a Scottish publisher, George Thomson of Edinburgh.
Each of the Beethoven Center’s Noontime Concerts features a short lecture and performance followed by an informal coffee reception. These events are free – all are welcome!
Beethoven Center Noontime Concerts
December 7, 2023
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
5th floor Beethoven Center, MLK Library
Free admission
Johann Sebastian Bach, selections from The Art of the Fugue. (BWV 1080)
Malcolm Arnold, Quintet for Brass No. 1, Op. 73 (1961)
1. Allegro vivace
2. Chaconne (Andante con moto)
3. Con brio
The Altos Brass
Rick Leder and David Adams, trumpets
Brian Holmes, horn
John Monroe, trombone
Brent Herhold, tuba
Local brass ensemble The Altos Brass conclude our season of Beethoven Noontime Concerts
with a program of J. S. Bach and Malcolm Arnold. J. S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue (ca.
1740–46) represents the culmination of Bach’s interest in fugue—a musical form in
which a whole piece of music is worked out from a single theme, and which especially
fascinated Beethoven, who composed many fugues throughout his lifetime.
Each of the Beethoven Center’s Noontime Concerts features a short lecture and performance followed by an informal coffee reception. These events are free – all are welcome!
Beethoven Birthday Bash
December 16, 2023
5th floor Beethoven Center, MLK Library
Free admission
Join us as we celebrate Beethoven's Birthday! Registration and program information will be posted soon.
