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MUSIC MOUNTAIN'S 81st SEASON!
Labor Day Weekend with the Shanghai String Quartet!
Saturday, September 4th, 6:30 pm
& Sunday, September 5th, 3 pm
Featuring violist & pianist Melvin Chen on Sunday!
Shanghai String Quartet
Spend Labor Day weekend at Music Mountain with the Shanghai String Quartet as they premiere polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s newest work, String Quartet no. 3 (Leaves from an Unwritten Diary), that Penderecki wrote specifically for the Quartet to commemorate their 25th Anniversary.
Shanghai Quartet Cellist Nicholas Tzavaras describes the opening of the Penderecki piece, to be played on Saturday, September 4th, 6:30 pm in Gordon Hall, as “an almost grave introduction with a dark and screaming melody by viola.”
He goes on to say, “Towards the end of the work, a spectacular gypsy melody appears, a theme that hasn’t been heard in any of the composer’s previous works. We asked Maestro Penderecki about the theme, and he told us that it is a melody that his father used to play on his violin, perhaps a Romanian melody, he thought, when he was a child.”
The concert will also include the performance of the Schumann: String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 44 # 1 (1842); and Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Opus 10 (1893).
On Sunday, September 5th at 3 pm, the music “plays on” with the Shanghai Quartet as they’re joined by violist Melvin Chen for the 81st Anniversary Celebration Concert featuring the performance of: Schubert: Quartetsatz, in C Minor, D. 703 (1820); Brahms: Viola Quintet in F Major, Opus 88 (1882): and Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 (1864).
Melvin Chen
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