February 2019
“Lost and Found”
Free admission. Program Saint-Saëns: String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, op. 153 Marie Jaëll: String Quartet in G Minor Vincent D’Indy, Guillaume Lekeu, and Claude Debussy: Excerpts from string quartets Would Johann Sebastian Bach be known to us, had Mendelssohn not discovered his scores and introduced audiences to his music? Would we know Mahler, championed by Bruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein, when so many deemed his music unworthy? In this program, the Ciompi Quartet follows in this tradition of…
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Duke Performances Concert No. 2
Featuring Susan Fancher, saxophone Program Arvo Pärt: Fratres Elliott Carter: Two Fragments for String Quartet Scott Lindroth: New Work for Saxophone and String Quartet—World Premiere Dvořák: Quartet No. 11 in C Major, op. 61 Buy tickets from Duke Performances The Ciompi Quartet opens this concert with Arvo Pärt's landmark Fratres, an engrossing 1977 piece that seesaws between hyperactive flurries and halcyon stretches. They continue with Elliott Carter's Two Fragments for String Quartet, two short sections that test divides between silence…
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