The Music of Beethoven, Performed Live with Silent Film
Artistic Director/Conductor
RUSSELL HARLOW
Musicians
JEFFREY PRICE - PIANO
BLANKA BEDNARZ - VIOLIN
JOHN KNIGHT ALLEN - VIOLIN
LESLIE HARLOW - VIOLA
LAUREN POSEY - CHELLO
PCI Artist Liaison
JENNY KNAAK
PCI Technical Director
HAYDEN CHIPLEY
“THE GOLD RUSH”
a Film by
Charles Chaplin
1942
Running Time: 72 minutes
Black & White
CAST
Charles Chaplin -The Lone Prospector
Mack Swain - Big Jim McKay
Tom Murray - Black Larsen
Henry Bergman - Hank Curtis
Malcolm Waite - Jack Cameron
Georgia Hale - Georgia
Betty Morrissey - Georgia's friends
Joan Lowell
Kay Deslys
Stanley "Tiny" Sandford - Barman
CREDITS
Director - Charles Chaplin
Written by - Charles Chaplin
Director of photography - Roland Totheroh
Production design - Charles D. Hall
Film editors - Charles Chaplin, Harold E. McGhan
Editorial supervisor - Edward Manson
Production manager - Alfred Reeves
Assistant directors - Henri D'Abbadie D'Arrast
Assistant directors - A. Edward Sutherland
Associate director - Charles Reisner
Camera operators - Mark Marlatt, Jack Wilson
Painters - Peter Stitch, Mr. Wood
Script supervisor - Della Steele
Bear wrangler - Bud White
Dedicated to - Alexander Woollcott
Program
Park City, UT
August 8, 2021 at 3:00pm
BEETHOVEN WORKS
The “Pastorale” Sonata - Piano Sonata Op. 28, Andante
The “Moonlight” Sonata - Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 2, Presto agitato String Quartet in B Flat, Op. 130, Presto - L’istesso tempo
The “Archduke Trio” for Piano, Violin and Cell, Op. 97, SCHERZO - Allegro
String Quartet in B Flat, Op. 130, Andante con moto The “Pastorale Sonata” Op. 28
The String Trio, Op. 9 No. 1, SCHERZO - Allegro The String Trio,, Op. 9 No. 1, Adagio
“Fur Elise” for Solo Piano
The String Trio, Op. 9 No. 1, Adagio
The String Serenade for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 8 Andante quasi Allegretto - Variations
The String Serenade, Op. 8, Allegretto alla Pollaca
The String Serenade for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 8 Andante quasi Allegretto - Variations
The Piano Sonata, Op. 111, Variation
The String Serenade for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 8 Andante quasi Allegretto - Variations
The String Serenade, Op. 8, Allegretto
The String Serenade, Op. 8, Adagio
The “Pastorale” Sonata - Piano Sonata Op. 28, Andante The String Serenade, Op. 8, Adagio
The String Serenade, Op. 8, Allegretto
The “Archduke Trio” for Piano, Violin and Cell, Op. 97, SCHERZO - Allegro The “Moonlight” Sonata - Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 2, Presto agitato
The “Archduke Trio” for Piano, Violin and Cell, Op. 97, SCHERZO - Allegro The “Archduke Trio” for Piano, Violin and Cell, Op. 97, Presto
String Quartet in B Flat, Op. 130, Andante con moto
Theater
The Eccles Center is the largest theater in Park City, Utah with 1,269 seats. It is home to Park City Institute's Main Stage Season from October through April each year, presenting a broad range of world-class performing arts from international dance companies to Broadway icons to beloved author/humorists to virtuosos in a host of musical styles from Chamber Music to rock'n'roll.
Health and Safety
The Park City Institute and the Park City School District have taken measures to assure the health and safety of our patrons, staff, and performers. These include updated HVAC, touchless restrooms, electronic ticketing, electronic programs, all volunteers and staff to be fully vaccinated, enhanced cleaning, and empty seats. We ask that anyone attending a show that is not fully vaccinated wear a mask at all times in the building.
Park City Institute
Presents
The Park City Chamber Society
Since 1984, internationally acclaimed classical solo artists have been converging on picturesque Park City, Utah, working together to prepare unique, vibrant chamber music programs designed to delight intimate audiences that include everyone from first-time concertgoers to lifelong chamber music fans.
Chosen for their dynamic musical personalities, the Beethoven Festival roster artists breathe expression into every Festival performance, making each concert a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the listener.
These exceptional artists perform these programs throughout Utah and beyond, as well as including their work in outreach to lesser served communities, senior living facilities, and schools.
Click on each photo below to read about these wonderful artists.
More information and a Full Concert Calendar can be found at:
https://www.pcmusicfestival.com/
The Players
Russell Harlow
Clarinetist and Beethoven Festival Artist in Residence Russell Harlow is one of the nation's premiere solo and chamber clarinetists. Mr. Harlow performed the New York Premiere of the Ramiro Cortes Trio (written for him), along with the Brahms Quintet, at Carnegie's Weill Hall in New York. The Sonolumina Ensemble ISOMIKE Label High Definition recording featuring Mr. Harlow entitled "Chamber Music for Clarinets and Strings" has received critical acclaim in both the U.S. and Europe. His most recent recordings for the ISOMIKE Label are "Mozart and Romantic Encores" and "Beethoven by Special Arrangement". These two recordings are featured on the High Definition recording site NativeDSD.com. The Mozart recording was nominated for Chamber Music Recording of the Year on this audiophile site and the Beethoven recording has been labeled as one of the site’s "Best-Selling" albums.
Russell Harlow co-directs the Beethoven Festival Park City and has performed and lectured for International Clarinet Association events throughout the world. His website ClarinetCentral.com is regularly visited by clarinetists worldwide. In addition to performances in Utah with the Beethoven Festival, the Contemporary Music Consortium and Sonolumina Orchestra, Mr. Harlow has performed with the Affetti Festival, Sitka and Anchorage Fall Classics Festivals (Alaska), the Amsterdam Chamber Players, the Puerto Rico Clarinet Festival, the Ars Nova, Lyrica and Piatigorsky Foundation concerts in New Jersey and with the Leonore Trio and Bargemusic in NYC.
Russell Harlow's mentors include Gary Foster, Mitchell Lurie, Harold Wright and violinist Charles Libove, and he was coached in chamber music and attended the masterclasses by cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Harlow is featured on recordings with flutist Laurel Ann Maurer, the Mirecourt Trio, the Beethoven Festival and the Utah Symphony abd has recorded numerous solos for major film scores. He founded and directed Utah's Nova Series until he joined the Beethoven Festival as Co-Director in 1986. He attended both UCLA and USC before joining the Utah Symphony at the age of 21.
PIANIST JEFFREY PRICE
Jeffrey Price is a professor of piano and opera at the University of Utah, a position he has held for eleven years. In addition to teaching piano and coaching singers, he serves as the musical director for the University’s Lyric Opera Ensemble. During a versatile and multifaceted career, he has been extremely active as a pianist, coach, accompanist, soloist, chamber musician, conductor and musical director, (for opera, musical theater, and dance), as well as composing. For over ten years, he was a co-director of the Contemporary Music Consortium, which presented concerts of new music in Salt Lake. He has composed chamber and orchestral music, piano pieces and songs, including several works for stage in a variety of idioms. For the last eight summers, he has been a member of the faculty at La Musica Lirica, a program in Italy for young American singers, where he has musically directed productions several full operas in Italian. During the 2010-2011 season, he is slated to appear as a soloist with the Salt Lake Symphony, as well as conducting the University’s Lyric Opera Ensemble production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. Mr. Price has appeared as a soloist with the Boise Philharmonic, the University Philharmonia, and the Utah Youth Symphony, including the Second and Third Concertos of Rachmaninoff, the Beethoven Fourth Concerto, and the Totentanz of Liszt.
VIOLINIST BLANKA BEDNARZ
Violinist Blanka Bednarz enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher. She has concertized in the USA, United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, and Lithuania; at venues such as the Jordan Hall in Boston, Miller Hall, Philadelphia Ethical Society, Kosciuszko Foundation House, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Aula UAM and White Hall in Poznan, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Cardiff City Hall; and at various prestigious festivals such as Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, Chanterelle Festival, Mozart Festival in Poznan, Wieniawski Festival, Days
of Szymanowski, and the International Chopin and Friends Festival in New York. As a soloist Bednarz has appeared with the orchestras internationally and her playing has been hailed as “beautiful, mature, and rich in color” (Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland). Bednarz is a member of the Atma Trio (established in 2002 with cellist Cheung Chau and pianist Slawomir Dobrzanski). The ensemble’s performances consistently meet with critical acclaim. Gazeta Wyborcza praised Bednarz’s “passionate performance and artistic maturity.” The Trio has performed under the auspices of the Szymanowski and Hofmann Associations, A. Kawecka Foundation, in venues and at festivals such as the National Museum of Instruments, the Baltic Sea Culture Center, the White Hall, Wielkopolskie Centrum Chopinowskie, the Wieniawski Festival, the Days of Szymanowski Festival, and the Mozart Festival. The Trio broke several attendance records in Poland, performing also in Lithuania, Germany, and Sweden. In the US, the trio has performed under the auspices of the Chopin Foundation of the US in Miami, at Lawrence Conservatory, at numerous universities, and at the Chopin and Friends Festival in New York City. The trio has been heard on Radio Merkury and Radio Emaus, as well as on television stations in Poznan and Wroclaw. The Trio’s series Atma Trio and Friends has been sought after. Prior to joining the Atma Trio, Bednarz had been a member of the Huntington Piano Trio which performed at the Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, on Boston's WGBH Radio and concert series, and on Polish Radio. Tygodnik Podhalanski described the trio’s performance as “beautifully sensitive,” and the Boston Globe praised its “eloquent” rendition of Kirchner’s Second Trio.
VIOLINIST JOHN KNIGHT ALLEN
A product of musical parents, John Knight Allen began his musical development with the piano in Los Angeles at the age of four. He continued his studies on the violin at Brigham Young University for his undergraduate career and recently completed a Master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Utah as a student of Robert Breault, where he is now working on a DMA in voice and choral conducting.
Summer studies include the Chautauqua Institution in New York, the Aspen Music School in Colorado, and abroad in Italy. John has performed internationally both as a violinist and singer, and enjoys interpreting the standard repertoire as well as championing new works.
Recent operatic credits include Germont in La Traviata, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief, and the title roles in Gianni Schicchi and Rigoletto.
He currently serves as Music Director for the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Sandy, Utah. In addition to music, John is passionate about teaching yoga, hiking in summer, and skiing as much as he can in winter.
VIOLIST LESLIE HARLOW
Festival Artist in Residence, Violist Leslie Harlow, is the Founder and Co-Director of the Park City Beethoven Festival. She has performed in chamber concerts with a host of the finest artists of this era. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Leslie Harlow performed in masterclasses for William Primrose, Paul Doktor, Donald McGinnis, Heidi Castleman, and Nabuko Imai and her primary teachers were Marna Street, Susan Schoenfeld, Paul Doktor, and violinist Harry Shub with additional lessons with Heidi Castleman, Donald Wright, and Francis Tursi. Ms. Harlow studied chamber music with coaches including Felix Galimer, Samuel Rhodes, David Soyer, Paul Doktor, Charles Castleman, Robert Sylvester, and Julius Baker.
Following graduation from Juilliard, Ms. Harlow moved to Utah with the plan to found a chamber music festival modeled after festivals she had been performing with over the years. She founded the Deer Valley (Utah) Chamber Music Festival in 1984 which has since been renamed the Beethoven Festival. The Festival continues to this day as Utah's oldest classical music festival, as of 2021,
presenting over 800 festival chamber concerts featuring many of the finest classical soloists of this era.
An active recording artist, both in chamber music and in commercial studio work, Ms. Harlow's viola solos have been featured on a number of film and television soundtracks including "Murder in the First”, "Surviving Picasso” and, most recently “Alpha”. She also founded and for many years directed the Park City Film Music Festival, the first U.S. film festival dedicated to the impact of music in film.
Active in teaching, Leslie Harlow is the coordinator and coach for the chamber music program Utah Valley University Department of Music in Orem, Utah. In 2015 Ms. Harlow was invited to present the collegiate level viola master class at the National ASTA Convention and to serve as a judge for the collegiate solo competition.
Representing the Festival, Leslie and clarinetist Russell Harlow perform concerts together with their colleagues throughout the year. They particularly enjoy performing for senior residents in retirement homes and for aspiring young artists at their schools.
Outside of the Festival, Harlows are busy professional performing artists, invited to perform in Utah and beyond, including for the Bargemusic Series in New York. Leslie Harlow’s recording credits also include the critically-acclaimed SACD recording for the ISOMIKE label: Chamber Music for Clarinets and Strings which features works by Karel Husa, Bohuslav Martinu, and Ingolf Dahl.
CELLIST LAUREN POSEY
Dr. Lauren Posey currently directs the Posey Cello Studio in Holladay, UT and she is also the Faculty and Artistic Director for the Intermountain Suzuki String
Institute. She is a member of the Rosco String Quartet and Ballet West Orchestra in Salt Lake City, UT, as well as on faculty at the Gifted Music School.
Dr. Posey completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Colin Carr and was a recipient of the Staller Scholar Award. Dr. Posey began her music training in Salt Lake City with teachers Carey and Elliott Cheney. In 2012 she won the T. Gordon Parks Memorial Collegiate Concerto Competition and the following year she won the 2013 University of Utah Concerto Competition.
Since 2012, Dr. Posey has been a founding member of the Rosco String Quartet with which she attended the 2013 Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, 2014 Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, and the 2014 Deer Valley Music Festival Emerging String Quartet Program. In 2014, she won the 2014 MTNA National String Chamber Music Competition as well as the 2014 University of Utah Chamber Music Competition.
Dr. Posey was a founding member of Trio Mondial, a piano trio formed in 2015 and coached by Colin Carr at Stony Brook University. She was a quarterfinalist in the 2016 and 2017 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, attended the 2016 Banff Chamber Music Residency and performed in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Masterclass Series for Wu Han.
She graduated in 2011 with her Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance from the University of Southern California under the tutelage of Alexander Suleiman and received a Master of Music degree from the University of Utah in 2014, where she studied with John Eckstein and Elliott Cheney. In her spare time, Dr. Posey enjoys taking road trips with her five dogs Riggins, Taylor, Lyla, Garrity, and Kora.
Dr. Posey’s cello was made in 2006 by local Salt Lake City maker Carrie Scoggins.