Our special guests, San Francisco based Telegraph Quartet, join SJCO principal players for an intimate evening of chamber music.
Alexander Borodin’s Quartet #2.
Third movement of this quartet made famous from
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Our special guests, San Francisco based Telegraph Quartet, join SJCO principal players for an intimate evening of chamber music.
Alexander Borodin’s Quartet #2.
Third movement of this quartet made famous from use in the musical KISMET
George Walker’s Quartet #1 “Lyric”
George Walker was the first Black Composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1996)
Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round
Composer note: The piece is conceived as an idealized bandoneon. The first movement represents the act of a violent compression of the instrument and the second a final, seemingly endless opening sigh (it is actually a fantasy over the refrain of the song My Beloved Buenos Aires, composed by the legendary Carlos Gardel in the 1930s. But Last Round is also a sublimated tango dance.
Violin: Audrey Goodner
Conductor: Anthony Quartuccio
Featuring young artist winners of the International Klein String Competition and a new work by a winner of the Allan Strange Memorial Composition Contest