What happens when you take three members of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and their music director, keep them six feet apart, strictly limit their audience size and ask them to play while wearing masks?
As violist Renee Skerik, cellist Crispin Campbell, percussionist Robert Sagan and pianist Kevin Rhodes recently demonstrated, you get a program of beauty, whimsy and more than a few surprises.
This week on Classical IPR in Concert, we present a recording of this recent concert that took place at the First Congregational Church in Traverse City.
Musicians
Renee Skerik, TSO Principal viola
Crispin Campbell, TSO Associate Principal cello
Robert Sagan, TSO Principal percussion
Kevin Rhodes, TSO music director and piano
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach, Allemande from BWV 1004 (Sagan)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Adagio and Allegro from BWV 1028 (Campbell and Rhodes)
Charles L. Johnson, Dill Pickles Rag (Sagan and Rhodes)
Caroline Shaw, Limestone and Felt (Skerik and Campbell)
Mitchell Peters, Yellow After the Rain (Sagan)
Camille Saint-Saens, The Swan (Campbell, Sagan, Rhodes)
William Kraft, Morris Dance (Sagan)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Andante from the Sonata for Cello and Piano (Campbell and Rhodes)
Johannes Brahms, Hungarian Dance no. 5 (Sagan and Rhodes)
Johannes Brahms, Sonata for Viola and Piano in E-flat major (Skerik and Rhodes)
Jonah Powell engineered the recording.
Kedrik Merwin is the executive director of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra.
Angela Aleo and Ronessa Butler provided additional support.
