Cellist Eric Edberg featured in online concert Wednesday night

Monday, February 1, 2021
Eric Edberg

This week’s Greencastle Virtual Music Festival presents cellist Eric Edberg, founding artistic director of the GVMF and the Greencastle Summer Music Festival, and a DePauw University emeritus music professor.

The pre-recorded concert goes “live” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and can be heard and seen:

-- In a watch party with post-concert discussion at http://watch.gvmf.live

-- At facebook.com/greencastlevirtualmusic

-- At greencastlemusic.org.

The program, titled “A Winter Journey Begins,” features Edberg performing the unaccompanied cello piece “Yakamochi” by the Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness, and, joined by pianist Claude Cymerman, several songs from Franz Schubert’s “Winter’s Journey” (“Winterreise”), which Edberg and Cymerman have arranged for cello and piano.

“The Hovhaness piece is composed of five short, quite varied movements, which range from deeply sad to quite playful,” Edberg said. “The Schubert songs are part of a set of 24, and are really duets for voice--in this case, cello--and piano, and are something Claude proposed we play. Matt Champagne did a wonderful job making an audio and video recording.”

Edberg, who has performed internationally and been praised by the New York Times for his “appealing tone” and the Washington Post for an “excellent solo performance,” started the weekly GVMF concerts in October as a way of “building and experiencing community through shared arts experiences.” The weekly programs present classical, jazz, bluegrass and folk music, as well as poetry, and debut each week with a watch party and post-concert discussion on Zoom.

Next week, the program debuting on Feb. 10 will feature love songs performed by local artists in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

All previous weekly programs are available at http://playlist.gvmf.live.

Send a message to greencastlevmf@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list.

The Greencastle Virtual Music Festival programs are made possible by the Greencastle Summer Music Festival family of donors and the GSMF endowment at the Putnam County Community Foundation, the Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the DePauw Performing Arts Series, the Inn at DePauw, the people of Gobin Church and in partnership with the Sunny Side concert series.

Contributions, which provide income for musicians impacted by the pandemic shutdown of live performances, can be made at greencastlemusic.org/donate.

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