The Ciompi Quartet

Featuring Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo soprano and Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė, piano.

Night Music—Bela Bartók’s term for music that depicts of the sounds and emotions of the night—is the central episode in the arch form of his Quartet #4. Fifty years later, Henri Dutilleux returned to the same nocturnal landscape in his string quartet Ainsi la nuit. The concert brightens after intermission with Fauré’s setting of Paul Verlaine’s love poetry, which floods the stage with glorious daylight. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, one of the stars of her generation, brings virtuoso musicianship to a collaboration with the Ciompi and Duke colleague, pianist Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė.

• Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la Nuit (Thus the Night) for TString Quartet (1976)
• Béla Bartók: String Quartet #4
• Gabriel Fauré: La bonne chanson with Jennifer Johnson Cano, and Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė

This concert is FREE. Tickets may be reserved in advance.