string quartet festival
day two
JACK Quartet (with Conrad Tao, piano), Library of Congress Virtual Event, 12/3/2020*
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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*Program:
1. Rodericus (fl. late 14th century)/Christopher Otto, Angelorum psalat (c. 1390s).
2. Elliott Carter (1908-2012), Duo for Violin and Piano (1973-4).
3. Tyshawn Sorey, Everything Changes, Nothing Changes (2018).
4. Ruth Crawford [Seeger] (1901-1953), String Quartet 1931 (1931).
5. Tyshawn Sorey, For Conrad Tao (2020).
6. Elliott Carter (1908-2012), String Quartet no. 3 (1971).
reimagining
Christopher Trapani (1980-), Visions and Revisions (2013); JACK Quartet, 2018
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Bob Dylan, “Visions of Johanna” (B. Dylan), 1966
Sounds for a strange, scary, sad world.
Georg Friedrich Haas (1953-), String Quartet No. 8 (2014); JACK Quartet
Why not start the week with something strange?
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), Tetras (1983); JACK Quartet, live, Philadelphia, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
Trust in the Unexpected —
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #561 (Franklin)
Thankful I am, two days before Thanksgiving, for things that sound unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.
Horatiu Radulescu (1942-2008), String Quartet No. 5 (“before the universe was born”); JACK Quartet, live, Los Angeles, 2011