Summer Festival at The Huntington: Concert 1 July 10, 2010

The 2010 Southwest Chamber Music Summer Festival at The Huntington resumes on the Loggia of The Huntington Art Gallery. This popular rite of summer will feature a major work on each weekend by prominent women composers Thea Musgrave, Gabriela Ortiz, Anne Le Baron and Alexandra du Bois. New this summer - patrons can bring their own picnic to
enjoy on the lawn. Also available are pre-concert full service dinners in The Huntington Tea Room,
available when concert tickets are purchased, making our festival a perfect way to spend a summer evening. These regularly sold-out concerts will take place on July 10, 11, 24, 25 and August 7, 8, 21, 22 at The Huntington in San Marino on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m.

--- Concert 1 --- A celebration unique to The Huntington – the festivities begin with a jolly work by Carl Friedrich Abel, whose portrait is in the Main Art Gallery collection. We will continue in a British
vein with the Phantasy of Benjamin Britten and the U.S. premiere of Thea Musgrave’s 'Cantilena.' Through his vibrant Panamanian dances, the dean of African American composers, William Grant Still, will unite with Dvorák’s 'American Quartet.' Though not a well known fact, Dvorák was supported in America by non other than Arabella Huntington.