"Flying Fingers! Virtuoso String Quintets" - Music of the Spheres Society October 16, 2009

Stephanie Chase has created string orchestra versions of virtuoso violin music by Sarasate, which have been recorded on the MSR Classics label in live-concert performances by The American String Project and performed by the Perlman Music Program. Her arrangements of music by Falla and Paganini have been called "the treat of the night" (www.gatheringnote.org) and "brilliant" (Seattle Times).

This concert features her string quintet arrangements of Manuel de Falla's sumptuous "Siete Canciones Populares" - arranged from the original version for voice and piano - followed by the brilliantly evocative "Caprice Basque," "Romanza Andaluza" and "Ziguenerweisen" by Pablo de Sarasate, and the world premiere of the "Sonata No. 3, Op. 108 for Violin and Piano" by Johannes Brahms. For dessert, the program concludes with "A Capricious CHASE" - her version of Paganini's famed Caprice No. 24, into which she has inserted the musical spelling of her own name.

Artists: Stephanie Chase, Harumi Rhodes, Hsin-Yun Huang, James Wilson, and Kurt Muroki

Pre-concert talk and demonstration at 7:30 p.m. by Bo Lawergren and Tomoko Sugawara: "An Ancient Stringed Instrument Reborn: The Angular Harp"

Pre-concert talk is included in concert admission. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. Call (212) 877-4402 for more information. Ages 12 and up.

Official Website: http://www.musicofthespheres.org