Tasting Music II finds WWCMF on the familiar ground of Walla Walla Vintners

On two previous occasions, WWCMF has had the pleasure of presenting performances in this beautiful setting. Musically, however, this performance breaks most unfamiliar ground, and that, as you will discover, is a very good thing. Charles Martin Loeffler, born Martin Karl Löffler near Berlin, emigrated to the United States in 1881. He served as the Assistant Concertmaster of the renowned Boston Symphony for 21 years until his retirement to a life of composition. His compositional style shows influences of French and Russian schools of the latter ninteenth Century, including pre-impressionism and a relationship to Symbolist literature. In many senses, Loeffler’s aesthetic can be looked at as a kind of reduction of the 2013 WWCMF program as a whole. Like many of the works on this season’s program, the String Quintet in One Movement was composed in 1891.

Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935)

String Quintet in One Movement for 3 violins, viola, and cello

Allegro commodo

Artists: Timothy Christie, Norbert Lewandowski, Christina McGann, Stephen Miahky and Maria Sampen