Arizona Friends of Chamber Music

Presenting the world's best chamber ensembles to audiences of all ages in Southern Arizona.

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Thank you to all the generous donors who contributed while watching the Live Online concert last night. If you want to keep chamber music alive, give now. https://t.co/HS9RL6os8w

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Last night's first Watch at Home concert was a big success with viewers (and donations!) from all across the U.S. If you missed it, it's available to watch thru Sun., Jul 19. https://t.co/83gnPR0PVf

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"...like tears, they eventually fade away…a feeling that the music..has reached an important turning-point. The hopeful music, heard briefly earlier in the movement, reappears and the quartet reaches an ecstatic conclusion.” https://t.co/7QJ9ryAx0H #TBT

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Listen at Home No. 5 🎵 Commissioned by AFCM and composed by Olli Mustonen this work premiered in 2011.
Mr. Mustonen wrote of the second movement: “A new kind of ‘more hopeful’ music emerges...https://t.co/bXpGumksQ8 #chambermusic #notesofhope

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About our Listen at Home No. 1: "I listened to it over and over." #MaryOliver meets #ChamberMsuic https://t.co/O6CWeyywHN

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Intrigued by chamber music? Give it a try on our SoundCloud: https://t.co/7QJ9ryAx0H
#NewMusic

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Chamber music lovers come from all walks of life. Meet Helmut Abt an Emeritus Astronemer at the Kitt Peak Nat'l Observatory and an AFCM board member https://t.co/QMCca9GemU

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Did you miss Listen at Home No. 3 🎵 ? TRIO FOR FLUTE, VIOLA, AND HARP composed by Patrick Zimmerli. https://t.co/kFY1ZuPGgm

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Chamber music is a growing art form: we commission works from interesting composers tailored to great ensembles of our choice. Music you won't hear anywhere else. #chambermusic

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AFCM's commissioning program: “It’s a model for the country.”

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Listen at Home No. 4 🎵 SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO
Composed by Fazil Say for AFCM, premiered 1997. https://t.co/RClDtbEVxW

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Did you miss No. 2? Gerard Schurmann composed a piano quartet that AFCM premiered in 1998. Listen here: https://t.co/1SLL8Yykwc

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Mr. Zimmerli wrote: “Like much of my work, the piece mixes jazz and classical idioms...has much more in common with chamber music of the 18th or 19th century than that of the 20th. https://t.co/kFY1Zuy5oO

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Listen at Home No. 3 🎵 Trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Commissioned by AFCM. Composed by Patrick Zimmerli. Premiered in 2010. https://t.co/kFY1Zuy5oO

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“Although this work’s nature is powerful in its darkness, it made me very happy. Sometimes the pain needs to be addressed in order to be freed and released and perhaps this is why this sonata was a joy for me to compose.”

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Ms. Auerbach wrote:
“I don’t want to write what the work is ‘about’, because ultimately music is not about anything but the music itself.

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Listen at Home No. 2: Sonata No. 3 for Piano and Violin
Commissioned by AFCM and composed by Lera Auerbach. https://t.co/1V1j35dOT8

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Listen to, and enjoy, this concert....!

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Enjoy to this concert by Marc-André Hamlin who has appeared at the Tucson Winter Music Festival. @Livestream: https://t.co/4up4Xyh2uZ

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Dear chamber music lovers - find free streaming audio in the commissions archive on our website. 🎼 Start here: https://t.co/922r7eHLRO