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2023-10-05 23:44:00
The Alexander String Quartet almost always has a Saturday morning series at Herbst, accompanied by talks by composer/musicologist Robert Greenberg. This year's series is called Music as a Mirror of Our World: The String Quartet from 1905 to 1946. The title is....partially correct. It's a mirror of our world if you think only white men compose string quartets.Here's the programming for the full series. For each concert, I've suggested an alternative quartet they might have programmed.Program 1: Austria. Quartets by Schoenberg and Webern. Add Johanna Beyer String Quartet 1 or 2.Program 2: Russia. Quartets by Stravinsky and Prokofiev. No obvious pick here, so let's go for the unknown-to-me Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova, who wrote two strings quartets.Program 3: Czechoslovakia. Quartets by Haas and Janacek. Vítězslava Kaprálová wrote eight string quartets; take your pick.Program 4: United States. Quartets by Barber and Piston. Add Ruth Crawford Seeger's sole quartet.Program 5: Austria. Quartets by Zemlinsky and Korngold. The loveliest girl in […]
2022-07-04 10:16:35
BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, July 4, 1822
2022-06-13 03:21:21
The German/American composer Johanna Beyer (1888-1944) is hard to pin down. On one hand, her early electronic work Music of the Spheres, the Movement for Two Pianos, and the two string quartets reflect the energy of experimental composer friends and colleagues like Henry Cowell, Percy Grainger, and Dane Rudhyar. On the other hand, Beyer wrote […]
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