After the economy went south in 2008, the chamber music ensemble ETA3 went from giving about 30 concerts a year to about half that number.
Still, the group is keeping its collective head up.
The trio will be in concert Sunday at the Historic Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales. The concert is part of the Music in Corrales’ 25th anniversary season.
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If you go WHAT: ETA3 WHEN: 4 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Historic Old San Ysidro Church, Old Church Road, Corrales HOW MUCH: $22 in advance at Frame-n-Art in Las Tiendas Shopping Center or online at www.musicincorrales.org. $25 at the door |
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The program offers works by many different composers. The concert opens with Camille Saint-Saëns’ seven-minute-long Tarantella.
“It is one of the most standard pieces for this combination of instruments. That’s why we often like to open the program with that piece,” ETA3 clarinetist Alexey Gorokholinsky said in a phone interview.
“When Saint-Saëns wrote it it was Opus 6, so he was relatively young and unknown. His friend (Gioacchino) Rossini , who had chamber music parties, played a little joke. He played it, letting people think it was his own piece. He said, ‘Thank you, but it was written by my friend Saint-Saëns.’ That’s how Saint-Saëns was introduced to society.”
These are some of the other works on the Corrales program: Claude Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s “Russian Dance,” which is from his ballet “Swan Lake,” Aram Khachaturian’s Trio, a set of six Romanian dances by Bela Bartok, Jacques Ibert’s “Aria,” Ian Clarke’s “Great Train Race” and a fantasy based on the music of Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen.”
Gorokholinsky said he first met the other trio members – flutist Emily Thomas and pianist Tomoko Nakayama – in a music history class at the Juilliard School.
“The class transformed into art history to go along with the history of music. Paintings were compared with music such as Impressionism in France,” Gorokholinsky said in a phone interview from New York.
“There were chamber music opportunities at Juilliard. We just wanted to play some music, and it kind of evolved.”
Gorokholinsky, Thomas and Nakayama are all Juilliard graduates.
With ETA3′s reduced touring schedule, Gorokholinsky has been devoting a lot of time to a young artists program called Academy. He was one of 20 musicians invited to join it for a two-year stint.
“We play many concerts in Carnegie Hall’s recital halls. We co-teach in the New York City public schools. We do outreach performances,” Gorokholinsky said of Academy.
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