The fallout from 9-11 continues.
The Borealis String Quartet was scheduled to perform a Brooklyn
Friends of Chamber Music recital with pianist Sara Davis Buechner
at 3 pm on Jan. 26, however, the Vancouver, Canada-based group
is unable to enter the country in time for the concert due to
the indefinite extension of the visa application process put
into place by the Immigration and Naturalization Service following
the terrorist attacks, according to Brooklyn Friends of Chamber
Music manager Wanda Fleck.
Instead of canceling the performance, Buechner will give a solo
recital on that date and time at the same location, the Lafayette
Avenue Presbyterian Church, on Lafayette Avenue at South Oxford
Street. Buechner – a faculty member of New York University who
has performed with the New York Philharmonic and has just returned
from a Japanese tour – will perform a program encompassing music
from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Opening with Mozart’s Sonata in D major, Buechner then plays
Chopin’s Sonata No. 3 in B minor before entering less-trodden
piano territory. The six "Salon Pieces" of Rudolf Friml
are lighthearted works, as are George Gershwin’s five "Foxtrot
Transcriptions." Buechner wraps up her recital with Gershwin’s
weightier "Rhapsody in Blue," in a solo piano version.
The Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music hopes to have Buechner
and the Borealis Quartet return to perform the canceled Schumann
quintet next season, said Fleck.
Tickets are $15, $5 students. For reservations, call (718) 855-3053.
