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Bruce Wolosoff, Reflections in Music artistic director. TOM KOCHIE
The innovative Reflections in Music series returns to The Church on Saturday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. with artistic director Bruce Wolosoff inviting audiences to enjoy “Music Inspired by Music.”
The evening includes music inspired by Bach by Villa-Lobos, music written in the style of Borodine by Maurice Ravel, a musical portrait of Chopin by Robert Schumann and the premiere of Wolosoff’s epic variations on “House of the Rising Sun.”
Composers are often inspired by other art forms, but most frequently they are inspired by other music. Often these influences are unconscious and the composers themselves may be unaware of them, and at other times there is a more deliberate “borrowing” that may or may not be acknowledged by the composer. This program is of music in which the composer fully acknowledges their musical influences.
As John Lennon famously said, “Amateurs borrow, professionals steal.” The quote itself was stolen from T.S. Elliot’s phrase, “Amateur poets borrow, mature poets steal.”
Reflections in Music is a nonprofit that hopes to bring the appreciation of classical music to new audiences and to spark new ways of thinking about and engaging with the classical music experience to those who are already music lovers. For more information visit reflectionsinmusic.org.
Tickets are $25 at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor.
Staff Writer on Apr 30, 2024