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String Quartet Premiere

Sat, Nov 23

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Scholes Street Studio

Brooklyn Composers Alliance presents three string quartet world premieres performed by Xanthoria Quartet! Doors open at 7:00pm, music begins at 7:30pm. General Admission $15, student discount at the door $10.

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String Quartet Premiere
String Quartet Premiere

Time & Location

Nov 23, 2019, 7:30 PM

Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206, USA

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Program Notes 

String Quartet No. 2, "Recent Emotions" by Sean Vigneau-Britt 

I  always use music to express my emotions, but I usually let the audience  interpret what those emotions are. With this composition, I assigned  each of the four movements a different emotion that I have experienced  recently and wrote the music to express that one specific sentiment. The  movements are, respectively, I. Anger, II. Despair, III. Fear, and IV.  Hope.

Minuet and Trios; and Abacus, by Seth Grosshandler  

The Minuet is  a movement of a larger piece (String Quartet No. 1) currently in  progress.  It is in a late 18th century style, with a few bursts of  romanticism and a few detours to modality.  Unusually -- but not  uniquely -- for the form, the Minuet has two Trio sections rather than  one.

The “Abacus” for String Quartet is written in a more modern and romantic  style.  It is…

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