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How Slow the Wind
Music by Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)
Based on two poems by Emily Dickinson
Version for chamber ensemble composed in 2001. Recorded by the Atlanta Symphony on Golijov's Oceana CD (released July 2007).
Concert Date: FALL 2008 (revised date)
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"warm, and close...but a slight sense of claustrophobia only increases the impact of Golijov's music. If he's new to you, try and hear this... However you react to it, you're unlikely to forget it!”
–BBC
About this work
How Slow the Wind, a setting of two short Emily Dickinson poems, was Golijov's response to the death in an accident of his friend Mariel Stubrin. Golijov writes, "I had in mind one of those seconds in life that is frozen in the memory, forever-a sudden death, a single instant in which life turns upside down, different from the experience of death after a long agony." This is the original version for voice and string quartet. The piece was commissioned by Cecilia Wasserman, in memory of her late husband Herb, for Close Encounters with Music and was first performed in their Seiji Ozawa Hall concert of May 5, 2001, by Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Toby Appel and Justine Chen, violins; Kenji Bunch, viola, and Yehuda Hanani, cello.
-Osvaldo Golijov
Performed in English.
Critical Acclaim–
"Osvaldo Golijov was raised in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina, where he grew up surrounded by classical chamber music and Jewish liturgical chant as well as klezmer and the New Tango of Astor Piazzolla - and every one of those traditions is represented... in Golijov's chamber music.... None of which would matter a whole lot if Golijov wasn't such an instinctive and emotional communicator, able to knit these diverse elements into an ear-catching confection that can intrigue, delight and terrify by turn. You'll know how well Golijov can use these extra-classical influences if you've heard his arrangements of world music for the Kronos Quartet, or his St Mark Passion - a huge hit in 2000, the Bach anniversary year, and full of earthy Latin American sounds..."
–Andrew McGregor, BBC
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String Quartet No. 3
Music by Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Composed in 1926 while in Budapest. The work is dedicated to the Musical Society Fund of Philadelphia Competition for which he won first prize.
First performed by the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet in 1929.
Chamber Music Society Concert Date: FALL 2008 (revised date)
About this work
"Bartok's String Quartet No. 3 has the tinge of modernist angularity and harmonic rootlessness give it its irresistible drive, yet shards of Beethovenian contemplativeness occasionally drift through, like glimpses of a lost world." -New York Times
The work is even more harmonically adventurous and contrapuntally complex than Bartók's previous two string quartets and explores a number of extended instrumental techniques, including sul ponticello, col legno, glissandi and the so-called Bartók pizzicato.
It has often been suggested that Bartók was inspired to write the piece after hearing a performance of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite (1926) in 1927. The piece is widely considered to be the most tightly constructed of Bartók's six string quartets, the whole deriving from a relatively small amount of thematic material integrated into a single continuous structure. It is also Bartók's shortest quartet. -Source Wikipedia
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String Quartet No. 5
Music by Pultizer-Winner Elliott Carter (b. 1908)
Composed in 1995.
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Chamber Music Society Concert Date: FALL 2008 (revised date)
In honor of the composer's 100th birthday.
"...one of America's most distinguished creative artists in any field." - Aaron Copland
"masterpieces" -Stravinsky commenting about Carter's String Quartets
About this work
"Not many living composers are absolutely assured that their works will be inscribed in the honor role of classics, but that's not in doubt for Elliott Carter, who in the course of a century-long career has drawn from an apparently inexhaustible font of creative ideas. Quite a few of his pieces have long been recognized as touchstones of modernism, and none more so than his five string quartets, produced at intervals of roughly a decade between 1950 and 1995, and often cited as one of the most extraordinary quartet cycles in all of music." -Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Critical Acclaim–
Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the first composer to receive the U.S. National Medal of Arts, one of only four composers ever awarded Germany's Ernst Von Siemens Music Prize, and recently made "Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the government of France, Elliott Carter is internationally recognized as a pre-eminent American voice in the classical music tradition.
Carter was the subject of recent documentaries by London Weekend Television and the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation. He celebrated his 80th birthday on December 11, 1988 to the accompaniment of salutes from around the world, culminating in December with the U.S. premiere of his recently completed Oboe Concerto. Concurrently, Mr. Carter's complete vocal/chamber works, string quartets, Penthode (for chamber orchestra), and ballet The Minotaur were recorded.
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Performers:
Janelle McCoy,
mezzo-soprano
Amernet Quartet
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Performers:
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Amernet Quartet
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