Palaver Strings: Beehive Chamber Series – Homeland

Palaver Strings’ Beehive Chamber Series returns to the Brattleboro Music Center Friday, November 10, with a program entitled “Homeland.”

The 7 p.m. concert at the BMC will explore folk-inspired music by a diverse group of composers paying homage to their homelands: Carlos Guastavino (Argentina), Violetta Parra (Chile), Leos Janacek (Czech Republic), and Bela Bartok (Hungary). Their works explore the essence of each composer’s cultural-political landscape, using folk material from everyday life.

The musical journey concludes with Brahms’ monumental Trio in A Minor, which he composed after visiting his friend, clarinetist Richard Muhlfeld, in Meiningen, Germany.

Palaver Strings includes Sergio Muñoz, viola; Matthew Smith, cello; and Peipei Song, piano.