Calendar / Past Events
May 4, 2019 – January 9, 2019
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat, Opus 12 (1829)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Opus 44, No. 2 (1839)
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet (1931)
Leonard Bernstein, Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950)
This is the second concert in a two-year cycle of Mendelssohn's six string quartets. It also features the remarkable lone string quartet of Ruth Crawford Seeger, the American composer of extraordinary forward-looking music.
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat, Opus 12 (1829)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Opus 44, No. 2 (1839)
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet (1931)
Leonard Bernstein, Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950)
This is the second concert in a two-year cycle of Mendelssohn's six string quartets. It also features the remarkable lone string quartet of Ruth Crawford Seeger, the American composer of extraordinary forward-looking music.
Jean Francaix : Quintet for clarinet and String Quartet
Claude Debussy : String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Sebastian Currier : Etudes and Lullabies (Central Coast Premiere)
Mozart: Quintet in A major for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581
Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen
The lecture on January 11 will be in collaboration with the Pacific Quartet Vienna. The lecture will explore Beethoven Op. 127 and will conclude with a complete performance of the work by the quartet, where the audience will have the opportunity to read Beethoven's manuscript during the whole performance. Beethoven used many detailed expressive markings in his manuscripts and these markings are not reflected in print. There are 20 dynamics instead of 9, four staccato markings instead of 1 or 2, and 2 types of expressive swell pair instead of one. In the discussion, we will share with the audience the working process to try to bring this more varied information into performance.
Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen
The lecture on January 10 will look at the manuscript of Haydn Op. 71, No. 1 and view it in the context of the Violinschule of Leopold Mozart, and then will jump in time to the working sessions that the Borromeo String Quartet had with György Ligeti himself on Ligeti String Quartet No. 2. Haydn would sometimes provide detailed instructions to performers and other times he would seem to leave everything unresolved. Haydn's approach becomes much more understandable when we read the advice of Leopold Mozart about how to elaborate “unadorned” sections of music. This will be compared with working directly with Ligeti on his own composition.
Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen
The lecture on January 9 will be about Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and will conclude with a hearing of the whole Credo watching a projection of the manuscript during the listening. Beethoven used a very elaborate set of expressive marks in his manuscripts and we are not familiar with these markings as they have not been included in print. In the Missa Solemnis the expressive content of these markings is illuminated by the words of the Mass. Combining the awareness of the words with the manuscript expressive markings deepens our appreciation of this stunning music and Beethoven's vivid and multi-faceted way of achieving expressivity.