Bellingham Chamber Music Society Gala Concert

After a two-year hiatus, the Bellingham Chamber Music Society is excited to return with an exciting lineup of concerts to be performed in the elegant and newly restored ballroom of the Hotel Leo. The society has four concerts planned from September through May at this new venue and guests will be able to enjoy a signature cocktail crafted by Amendment 21’s bartender for each concert.

The opening concert of the Bellingham Chamber Music Society will feature the seldom performed “Sextet in e minor” by Gustav Holst for winds and strings. Influenced by traditional English folksong, this work features wide expansive melodies and intricate sonorities and represents Holst as a young composer, seventeen years before he wrote his famous orchestral work “The Planets”. This will be followed by the Brahms “String Quintet no. 1 in F Major”, also known as the “double viola quintet” as it is scored for two violas creating a very lush sound scape. Brahms once told his longtime friend, Clara Schumann, that this was “one of his finest works”.

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