AMERICAN BEAUTY
Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw takes inspiration from the same Dumbarton Oaks estate that cast its spell on Stravinsky. Chris Rogerson harvests sounds from the music of Kurdish and Syrian refugees. Dvořák, having just returned to Bohemia, wrote a quartet essentially based on his experiences in New York. Three ways of looking at the world from an American perspective.
Caroline Shaw - Plan and Elevation
Chris Rogerson - Quartet No. 3 ITALIAN PREMIERE *
Antonín Dvořák - Quartetto in sol maggiore op. 106
AMERICAN BEAUTY
Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw takes inspiration from the same Dumbarton Oaks estate that cast its spell on Stravinsky. Chris Rogerson harvests sounds from the music of Kurdish and Syrian refugees. Dvořák, having just returned to Bohemia, wrote a quartet essentially based on his experiences in New York. Three ways of looking at the world from an American perspective.
Caroline Shaw - Plan and Elevation
Chris Rogerson - Quartet No. 3 ITALIAN PREMIERE *
Antonín Dvořák - Quartetto in sol maggiore op. 106
Program:
Haydn: String Quartet Op. 50, No. 6 in D Major
Shaw: Plan and Elevation
Shaw: Valencia
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in B flat major No. 2, Op. 87 (special guest violist: Caroline Shaw)
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ALL-CAROLINE SHAW PROGRAM
Punctum
Five Songs for string quartet and voice
Entr’acte
Free Admission
“Pulitzer prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw reveals all facets of her dynamic musicianship in this collaboration with the young, New York-based Attacca Quartet. Hers is an art which converses with the musical past without fear of fresh experiment. After three of her ingenious and beguiling quartets, she will sing new songs she has composed for herself and the Attacca, returning in the second half as a violist in Mendelssohn’s glorious quintet.”
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Composer, violinist, and singer Caroline Shaw became the youngest recipient ever of the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2013, and she’s since taken both the pop and classical music worlds by storm. A “breakout star of New York’s contemporary classical scene” (The Guardian), Shaw is a unique creative voice whose music paints luscious soundscapes with moments of discord and unexpected resolutions. The Attacca Quartet and Sō Percussion, both close collaborators of the composer, perform a program of her works from the last decade.