Some of the best small groups routinely play suites in all but name: nearly unbroken club sets in which form is improvised and themes recur.
Tomorrow evening Mr. Tsutsumi is to perform Suites Nos. 2, 4 and 6; on Sunday afternoon, he is to play Suites Nos. 1, 3 and 5. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. Maverick Road between Routes 28 and 375, West Hurley, N.Y., just outside Woodstock.
In the works is a French play, "Suite 2806" — inspired by the episode in the New York hotel room with the housekeeper — and, separately, a movie directed by Abel Ferrara with Gérard Depardieu.
That's what I did on Sunday, consolidated a lot of services round Comcast and its Triple Play suite of services.
Close to Home Lawrence Dutton, violist for the Emerson String Quartet, will be the soloist for the Westchester Chamber Orchestra's next concert, playing "Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra" and "Fantasia on Greensleeves," by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and "Suite Hebraique," by Ernest Bloch.
A more satisfying choice would have been to play both suites intact and separately.
Vogler is an independent performer involved in a variety of classical and contemporary projects, and, choosing to play the Suites on a gorgeous modern instrument, has a responsibility to maximize their expressive possibilities — and he does, bringing a wealth of varied articulations, phrasings, and tone colors to the task.
By Bean's own admission, his new play, Honeymoon Suite, is "a bit of a departure".
She played the suites when she was very young, studying under William Pleeth, but then came a time when she "couldn't stand them".
Eric Reed's Septet shared the bill, and it, too, played some suites, though they were shorter and put on less serious airs.
Based on Roger Rueff's play "Hospitality Suite," John Swanbeck's film airs tired secondhand truths in an exercise "so transparent you could wrap sandwiches with it" (Elvis Mitchell).
