String Quartet Premiere
Sat, Nov 23
|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.
Time & Location
Nov 23, 2019, 7:30 PM
Scholes Street Studio, 375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206, USA
About the event
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…