Chamber musicians to pay visit

As part of a whirlwind 10-day cross-country tour that will take them from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest, six members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will make two concert appearances in Utah this week.

Flutist Ransom Wilson, violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Ani Kavafian, violist Paul Neubauer, cellist Fred Sherry and pianist Andre-Michel Schub will first perform at the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium on the Utah State University campus on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The sextet will then head south to Provo to Brigham Young University, where they will appear in the de Jong Concert Hall on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

The program for both concerts will be the same: George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae" ("Voice of the Whale"), Haydn's Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise"), in an arrangement for flute and string quartet, and Cesar Fanck's Piano Quintet in F minor.

Written in 1971 for the New York Camerata, which premiered it in Washington, D.C., the following year, Crumb's "Vox Balaenae" is an evocative work scored for three masked players performing electric flute, electric cello and amplified piano. It was inspired by the singing of the humpback whale, which Crumb had heard on a recording a few years before writing the work.

Tickets for the Logan concert are $15 general and $5 for students, available at the door. Tickets for the Provo performance are $9 general and $6 for students, and can be purchased at the Harris Fine Arts Center box office or by calling 801-422-4322.