Loeffler’s Lost Octet, Debussy & Schumann

A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE THIS MASTERPIECE

Imagine a Romantic masterpiece lost to time, unpublished, unrecorded, and unheard since 1897. Incredibly, after two premiere performances that one reviewer said “took nearly everyone by storm,” Boston-based composer Charles Martin Loeffler’s stunning Octet vanished into the archives of the Library of Congress until it was rediscovered in 2020 by CMNW Protégé Project Alumnus Graeme Steele Johnson. After a year reconstructing the score, an all-star ensemble including clarinetists Johnson and CMNW Artistic Director Emeritus David Shifrin, CMNW Protégé Project Alumni violinists Isabelle Ai Durrenberger and Anna Lee, Oregon Symphony bassist Braizahn Jones, and others will bring it back to life, alongside two masterpieces by Claude Debussy. You can be among one of the first audiences to experience Loeffler’s gorgeous Octet in more than 125 years!

Program

R. SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
CLAUDE DEBUSSY “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune”
CLAUDE DEBUSSY “Première rhapsodie”
LOEFFLER Octet for Two Clarinets, Harp, Two Violins, Viola, Cello & Double Bass

Nathan Chan, Cello; Isabelle Ai Durrenberger, Violin; Graeme Steele Johnson, Clarinet; Braizahn Jones,Bass; Sooyun Kim, Flute; Anna Lee, Violin; Emily Levin, Harp; Katie Liu, Viola; David Shifrin, Clarinet & Artistic Director Emeritus 1981–2020