Crescent City Chamber Music Festival
11th Season, Free Public Concert No. 6
Ensemble-in-Residence the Manhattan Chamber Players flexes its Romantic muscles with music from that great, wildly varied era of chamber music composition in a recital including Dmitri Shostakovich’s early, absolutely wild Octet, Joaquín Turina’s pan-European, rarely heard Scéne Andalouse and CCCMF’s first ever presentation of Johannes Brahms’ towering, masterful Piano Quintet. Join us in the unmatched acoustics of Tulane’s Dixon Concert Hall for an evening of sublime music making!
CCCMF Founding Artistic Director Luke Fleming leads an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 6:30 PM.
Dixon Concert Hall
Friday, October 23, 2026
Doors: 6 PM
Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A: 6:30 PM
Music: 7 PM
“The Romantic Era”
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)
Two Pieces for Octet, Op. 11 (1925)
I. Prelude: Adagio
II. Scherzo: Allegro Molto
Seth Grosshandler (b. 1958)
Suite for Clarinet Quintet (2023)
I. Pastorale
II. Scherzo
III. Adagio and Troika
IV. Dances
V. Frolic
Joaquín Turina (1882 – 1949)
Scéne Andalouse, Op. 7 (1912)
I. Crepuscule do Soir (“At Twilight”)
II. A la Fenetre (“At the Window”)
Pause
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 (1864)
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante, un poco adagio
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Finale: Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo
Adam Golka, Piano
Mark Dover, Clarinet
Daniela Diaz, Violin
Siwoo Kim, Violin
Grace Park, Violin
Brendan Speltz, Violin
Luke Fleming, Viola
Pierre Lapointe, Viola
Abigail Monroe, Cello
Brook Speltz, Cello
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Please join us for CCCMF 2026’s final Free Public Concert,
which will be held on:
Sunday, October 25, 4 PM, Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church
The Crescent City Chamber Music Festival’s 11th Season in 2026 is supported by
generous grants from the New Orleans Theatre Association and the
Mike and Lynn Coatney Family Foundation.
The Crescent City Chamber Music Festival performs its mission in New Orleans on a budget of roughly $75,000 each season, which pays for artist fees, flights, rental cars, food, publicity, insurance, and a myriad of other miscellaneous expenses. Please consider donating to CCCMF to make our next season possible—no donation is too small, and as we are a 501(c)3 organization, it’s 100% tax-deductible!
You may choose to donate online through our secure transaction system, or by mailing a check to our physical address.
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Crescent City Chamber Music Festival
c/o Luke Fleming
330 Wagner St.
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