Dallas - Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) presents the 29th Annual Basically Beethoven Festival, a series of free classical chamber music concerts each Sunday in July, on July 5th, July 12th, July 19th and July 26th. The 2009 Basically Beethoven Festival will be back in the Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park, 3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Dallas, TX 75210. The doors open at 2:00 PM for the 2:30 PM pre-concert recital, For the Love of Music, presenting young local music competition winners. The chamber music performances will began at 3:00 pm. All concerts are FREE TO THE PUBLIC, including free parking. No reservations or tickets are required. For more information please call FACP at 214.520.2219, email bbf@fineartschamberplayers@.org or visit our website www.fineartschamberplayers.org.

July 12th 2:30 PM For the Love of Music: Dallas Suzuki Institue

3:00 PM Bax - Adagio non troppo from String Quartet in E Major
Beethoven - Quintet for Strings in C Major op. 29
Jerome Kern Songs Arranged by the composer for string quartet

July 19th 2:30 PM For the Love of Music: Violinist Jacqueline Morant,
Concertmaster of the YouTube Orchestra

3:00 PM Beethoven - Trio for violin, cello and piano in B-flat Major, op. 11
Popper - Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano, op. 66
Beethoven - Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen Variations, Wo046
in E flat for cello and piano

July 26th 2:30 PM For the Love of Music: Flutist Louis Lu, Winner of the Dallas Asian American Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition

3:00 PM Beethoven/Rosenblatt - Adagio for oboe and strings from the stretch from the sketch for Beethoven’s Oboe Concerto
Mozart - Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F Major, K 370
Beethoven - Folk Songs for voice, violin, cello and piano

All 3:00 PM concerts feature professional musicians from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Opera Orchestra and area university faculties.

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Fine Arts Chamber Players presents
FREE
Bancroft Family Concerts
February – May 2009
Dallas Museum of Art
Horchow Auditorium
1717 N. Harwood
Dallas TX 75201
Saturday @ 3:00 pm, doors open at 2:30pm

No Admission charge to museum or concert
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
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call 214.520.2219
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For 28 years Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) has presented free, family-friendly, Saturday afternoon classical chamber music concerts, once per month Oct-May, in Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art. No admission charge, no reservations required. Since 1981 FACP has served over 500,000 children and adults in North Texas through free educational programs and concerts.
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February 28, 2009 – Tesoro Trio
The Tesoro Trio performs Beethoven’s Trio in E Flat Major, Opus 70, No. 2, Mendelssohn’s Trio No. 1 in d minor, Opus 49 and Phoenician Dance by Gamal Abdel-Rahim.

Maria Schleuning, violinist, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Jolyon Pegis, cellist, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Yurie Iwasaki, pianist

March 28, 2009 – Musical Elegance
Fort Worth Symphony’s Concertmaster Michael Shih and harpist Naoko Nakamura Stromberg present Saint Saëns’ Fantasie for violin and harp, Ibert’s Trio for violin, cello and harp, the violin and harp arrangement of Massenet’s Meditation from Thaïs and Gamal Abdel-Rahim’s Dance of Isis for flute and harp.

Michael Shih, Concertmaster, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Naoko Nakamura Stromberg, harpist
Helen Blackburn, Principal Flutist, The Dallas Opera Orchestra
Gayane Manasjan, cellist

April 11, 2009 – D’Drum
Always a Dallas favorite, the five professional percussionists of D’Drum bring the music of the world – and a stage full of instruments - to the Dallas Museum of Art in a performance of Indonesian and Middle Eastern rhythms and melodies.

John Bryant
Doug Howard
Jamal Mohamed
Ed Smith
Ron Snider

May 30,2009 –Charles Barr Memorial Concert
Fresh from their Carnegie Hall debut in July 2008, Alexandra and Robert Switala,
a brother and sister string duo from Grapevine, Texas, honors the memory of Dallas native Charles Barr at the 3rd Annual Charles Barr Memorial Concert. Sponsored by Catherine and Eric Barr

PARKING INFORMATION
The Dallas Museum of Art underground parking is $15 during the King Tut exhibit, whichs ends in May. There is metered street parking, DART rail and bus all available in the Downtown Dallas Arts District. The McKinney Avenue Trolley is FREE and stops at The Dallas Museum of Art in the Downtown Dallas Arts District.

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Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) closes the 28th Annual Basically Beethoven Festival with this season’s final free Sunday afternoon classical chamber music concert on Sunday, July 27 at 2:30PM. This year, for the first time in the festival’s history, performances are being held inside the Dallas Arboretum’s air-conditioned Rosine Hall, located at 8525 Garland Rd. Dallas, TX 75218. ADMISSION IS FREE to the public but RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED; reservations guarantee free admission into the Dallas Arboretum. Doors open at 2:00 PM and the music begins at 2:30PM. Seating is limited, so please reserve early. For more information about this year’s series, or to reserve your seat, email bbf@fineartschamberplayers.org, visit www.fineartschamberplayers.org, or call 214.520.2219.

The July 27th concert features music for piano and string trio performed by the Mount Vernon Music Quartet: Steve Harlos (piano), Mark Miller (violin), Ute Miller (viola), and Carol Harlos (cello). The concert will begin with Beethoven’s Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 16, followed by a performance of Fauré’s popular Piano Quartet in c minor, Op. 15.

The 3:00PM feature performance will be preceded by For the Love of Music, a 20-minute youth recital beginning at 2:30 PM. Soprano Amber Wellborn, a University of North Texas student and first prize winner of the Dallas Opera Guild’s 2008 Vocal Competition, will perform works by Mozart, Poulenc, Schubert, Strauss, Brahms, and Carlisle Floyd. For the Love of Music is sponsored by Don and Norma Stone.

Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) kicks off the 28th Annual Basically Beethoven Festival with its first of four free classical chamber music concerts on Sunday, July 6 at 2:30PM. This year, for the first time in the festival's history, performances will be held inside the Dallas Arboretum's air-conditioned Rosine Hall, located at 8525 Garland Rd. Dallas, TX 75218. ADMISSION IS FREE to the public but RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED; reservations guarantee free admission into the Dallas Arboretum. Doors open at 2:00 PM and the music begins at 2:30PM. Seating is limited, so please reserve early. For more information about the festival, or to reserve your seat at this or any festival concerts, call 214.520.2219, email bbf@fineartschamberplayers.org or visit www.fineartschamberplayers.org.

Local professional musicians Gayane Manasjan, Ivo Ivanov, and Cornelia Demian will perform two major works from the chamber music repertoire. The group will open with Beethoven's String Trio in E-Flat, op. 3, followed by Dohnányi's Serenade in C Major for String Trio, op. 10. The opening concert of the 28th Annual Basically Beethoven Festival is generously sponsored by the Ben E. Keith Company.

The 3:00PM feature performance will be preceded by For the Love of Music, a 20-minute youth recital beginning at 2:30PM. Clarinetist Jimmye Ahn, a finalist in the International Clarinet Association High School Solo Competition and Grand Prize Winner of the Lewisville Lake Symphony Young Artist World Competition 2006, will perform the first movement of Carl Maria von Weber's Concerto No. 1 and Norbert Burgmuller's Duo for Clarinet and Piano. For the Love of Music is sponsored by Norma and Don Stone.