Come along with Wit’s Folly as we explore the wondrous musical world of Carl Maria von Weber, his friend clarinetist Heinrich Bärmann, and the young composer Felix Mendelssohn. The program features not only music written by and for those musicians, but a brand new arrangement of one of Weber’s best loved pieces made just for us by one of our members.

Come along with Wit’s Folly as we explore the wondrous musical world of Carl Maria von Weber, his friend clarinetist Heinrich Bärmann, and the young composer Felix Mendelssohn. The program features not only music written by and for those musicians, but a brand new arrangement of one of Weber’s best loved pieces made just for us by one of our members.

Come along with Wit’s Folly as we explore the wondrous musical world of Carl Maria von Weber, his friend clarinetist Heinrich Bärmann, and the young composer Felix Mendelssohn. The program features not only music written by and for those musicians, but a brand new arrangement of one of Weber’s best loved pieces made just for us by one of our members.

In last season’s Émigré, we told the stories of those who fled the French Revolution looking for peace and power abroad. Now we’ll look at the other side, musicians who stayed, from hope or necessity, and shaped turn of the century France with their music.