November 2019
Of the Cloth: Featuring The Lark Quartet & Laura Sewell, Cello
Tickets: $25, $10 All Students General Admission Seating In its first of two concerts on Duke Performances’ season, the Ciompi Quartet presents a collaboration with the celebrated Lark Quartet. Following cellist Caroline Stinson’s departure from the Lark to join the Ciompi in 2018, the Lark Quartet announced that 2019 would be its final season; over 34 years, the all-female Lark was particularly esteemed for commissioning over thirty works by some of the greatest American composers. The concert opens with Danish…
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MYTH-MAKERS: Featuring Rachel Yonan, viola and Alex Exerman, cello
Strauss: Sextet from “Capriccio" Shulamit Ran: String Sextet "Lyre of Orpheus” 2009 Faure: String Quartet E minor Op. 121 Tickets: $25, Free to all Students General Admission Seating
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Songs, Games, and Messages: featuring Molly Morkoski, Piano
Presented by Duke Performances Tickets: $25, $10 All Students General Admission Seating Pianist Molly Morkoski joins the Ciompi Quartet for a program that spans five centuries. An arrangement of John Dowland songs for piano quintet opens the program, presenting a fresh take on vocal works by the beloved Elizabethan composer. Morkoski joins for another quintet, Weinberg’s opus 18; Weinberg, a Polish war refugee who established his career in Soviet Russia, looks backward to exemplars of genre and form in this…
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