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Three Madrigals for Violin & Viola
by Bohuslav Martinu
Asako Kremer, violin
Yvonne Johnson, viola
While Beethoven sketched, fleshed out and revised, the early 20th century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote rapidly and never second-guessed himself. His resulting catalog is huge and of somewhat uneven quality, but among the clear winners are several sets of madrigals for two and three instruments.
Madrigals are simply songs from long ago, or stylized as if that were so. Contemporary music by that name is likely to recall the troubadours, with their songs of love and derring-do. Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin & Viola fit that bill exactly. Like a close brother and sister, violin and viola engage in a series of colorful dialogs whose tremulous trills, languorous andantes, plunging scales, and arching arpeggios are themselves the subjects. While there is no specific text, listeners can easily recall Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Cervantes' Don Quixote, or Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.This program concludes our 10th season! It all started in January, 1998 with an informal at St. Andrew By-the-Sea Methodist Church. Encouraged by the warm reception, we then inaugurated a series at the Hilton Head Public Library. And at the suggestion of friends, we began to repeat our performances in homes for small, invited audiences.
These past 10 years we have engaged 28 area musicians to prepare 46 programs, which were then performed in 140 concerts, thus making excellent use of 6 Hilton Head public venues, 12 private homes .. requiring our Steinway baby grand to be transported on 38 round trips with nary a scratch! 
What does our future hold? Well, we are thrilled to have been invited to perform at All Saints Episcopal Church, and we expect to continue there next season on Monday evenings. Likewise, Sunday afternoon and Tuesday evening house concerts are comfortably situated, although occasionally we would benefit from an additional placeIsland or even off-Island home with a nice piano. How about a Bluffton series on Sunday evenings? Our musicians are keen on the idea, but it turns out that suitable public venues - churches and the like - are not so plentiful as one might imagine. If a location occurs to you, we'd love to hear about it.
We are so grateful that the ensemble is supported by local businesses, by grants to 501(c)3 arts organizations like ours, and by an incredibly generous core group of patrons. But most of all CMHH thrives on your attendance and appreciation.