PORT LUDLOW — Pamela Roberts and Sung-Ling Hsu will present “Music for a Better World” at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The benefit concert will be at Port Ludlow Community Church, 9534 Oak Bay Road, Port Ludlow.
Admission is free. Donations to benefit the Jefferson County homeless population will be accepted at the door and during a brief intermission.
Roberts studied cello performance at the University of Washington. Since she retired, she lives in Quilcene and is the principal cellist in the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra.
Hsu, who grew up in Taiwan, immigrated to the United States in 2014 and lives in Quilcene, where she is the pianist at Port Ludlow Community Church.
Roberts and Hsu are co-artistic directors of the Port Townsend Chamber Music Series.
“This program has some unique and exciting elements included,” Roberts said. “Sung-Ling and I chose two new stylistic pieces to share. One is a virtuoso show piece, ‘Hungarian Rhapsody’ by David Popper, that is full of technical fireworks in a Gypsy-like style. To add even more high energy to the program, the composition by Mike Burstyn is a rousing Klezmer dance that we think the audience will thoroughly enjoy.”
The program will feature “Hungarian Rhapsody” for Cello and Piano by David Popper; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major, Allegretto amabile, by Jean Hure; Sonata for Cello and Piano #2, Andante cantabile, by Nikolai Myaskovsky; “A Song of India” by Rimsky-Korsakov; Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, Allegro non troppo, by Johannes Brahms; and Mike Burstyn’s klezmer “Ki Mitziyon.”
Klezmer is traditional instrumental music in Ashkenazi Jewish culture.
