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Haydn and Dvořák full program for March 10 and 11
By Peter Alexander March 5 at 5:08 p.m.
The violist and composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama burst onto the classical musical scene in 1993, when she received the Primrose Worldwide Viola Competitors on the age of 16.
Ngwenyama adopted that distinction by profitable the Younger Live performance Artist Worldwide Auditions the next yr, and later an Avery Fisher Profession Grant. An American of Ndebele (Zimbabwean) and Japanese descent, she attended the Coburn College of Performing Arts in Los Angeles and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. She later attended the Paris Conservatory as a Fulbright Scholar.
With concert events Sunday and Monday (March 10 and 11; particulars beneath), the Takács Quartet brings her Stream to Boulder audiences on a program that additionally consists of works by Haydn and Dvořák. The efficiency will likely be introduced for an in-person viewers and by streaming with tickets out there right here.
The Takács introduced the premiere of Stream in Berkeley final fall and have made it part of their touring repertoire since. Stream was commissioned by the Takács and the presenter Cal Performances after their second violinist, Harumi Rhodes, obtained to know Ngwenyama on the Marlboro Music Competition in Vermont.
The quartet’s request was for a bit “impressed by the pure world.” Taking the request very critically, Ngwenyama writes in her program notes that she “researched a big selection of topics,” together with “the life cycle, carbon reclamation, environmental safety, animal communication, starling murmurations, our final common widespread ancestor (LUCA), black gap collisions and the sub-atomic realm.”
In conclusion, she writes, “Every thing in nature flows and develops via time. Stream might be expressed mathematically, psychologically, bodily, visually, and, now, through string quartet. . . . Get pleasure from and drift, we solely know what we all know.” Her in depth notes embody NASA diagrams of the growth of the universe over 13.77 billion years.
Stream is in 4 actions, organized in an primarily conventional order: Prelude, Lento, Quark Scherzo, and Finale. The development of actions is loosely linked in Ngwenyama’s notes to the event of the universe via time.
Haydn’s “Dawn” Quartet is among the many composer’s final works in a style that he created and outlined. It was printed in 1797, the fourth in a set of six quartets, opus 76. The title comes from the start of the primary motion, with a sustained chord and a rising line within the first violin that means the solar rising above the horizon. That musical thought is developed all through the motion, which is adopted by the standard sluggish motion, a minuet and an brisk finale.
Generally known as the “Slavonic Quartet,” Dvořák’s Quartet in E-flat main was written for and devoted to violinist Jean Becker and the Florentine Quartet, knowledgeable ensemble give within the composer’s time. Dvořák had attracted consideration with the publication of his Slavonic Dances for 2 pianos, and Becker particularly requested for a quartet in the identical fashion, based mostly on folk-dance idioms.
Probably the most conspicuously “Slavonic” components are heard within the second motion which is labelled “Dumka,” a kind of motion derived from Ukrainian folks music that alternates between melancholy and exuberant sections; and the finale, which makes use of a speedy Czech dance known as the skočná.
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Takács Quartet
- Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat main, op. 76 no. 4 (“Dawn”)
- Nokuthula Ngwenyama: String Quartet Stream
- Dvořák: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat main, op. 51
4 p.m. Sunday, March 10
7:30 p.m. Monday, March 11
Grusin Music Corridor
In-person and streaming TICKETS HERE
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