Cherry Street Music will present Beethoven and the Beatles, Part 2 on Sunday, April 14, at 3PM at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton). Tickets and information are available at newtonculture.org. The program, curated by Cherry Street’s Artistic Director, renowned cellist Allison Yoshie Eldredge, is part of Cherry Street’s Classics with a Twist series.
Beethoven and the Beatles, Part 2 follows December’s Part 1 concert exploring connections between one of the most revered figures in classical music and the band that changed popular music forever.
“Putting together these Classical with a Twist concerts, I’ve been musing on the connections between Beethoven and the Beatles,” said Eldredge. “Both popularized musical genres of their day — Beethoven was the bridge between Classical and Romantic periods, and the Beatles were the band to popularize the Rock music genre in the 1960s.”
Allison Eldredge and Max Levinson will perform the ‘classics’ in the program — two pieces for cello and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 Variations for Cello and Piano on “See the conqu’ring hero comes” from Händel’s Judas Maccabaeus, and Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major Op. 69.
Eldredge said, “Beethoven was bold, moving away from the classical traditions of his predecessors . …He was creating greater tension, dissonance, and riveting drama that you almost forget where you started. That’s very similar to what you hear happening in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
