Three quartets of 蜜桃传媒 string students perform an Instrumental Chamber Concert Friday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in Deane Chapel on lower campus. The free concert features new and rarely heard gems alongside traditional repertoire pieces.
The Manly Monday Quartet, so called because the all-male ensemble rehearses on Mondays, will premiere 鈥淎 Quartet for Strings鈥� by composition student Becky Roubos. They will also play Franz Schubert鈥檚 鈥淪tring Quartet in D minor: Death and the Maiden.鈥�
Quartet 150:4 will perform selections from Schubert鈥檚 鈥淪tring Quartet in A minor: Rosamunde,鈥� Piotr Tchaikovsky鈥檚 鈥淪tring Quartet in D, Op. 11,鈥� and Antonin Dvorak鈥檚 鈥淪tring Quartet in F, Op. 96: American.鈥� The quartet鈥檚 name refers to a Psalm about music.
The Siloam Quartet, formed from two pairs of sisters, will present an excerpt from Dmitri Shostakovich鈥檚 鈥淪tring Quartet No. 8, Op. 110鈥� and three movements from the very rarely-heard 鈥淨uintet in G-minor鈥� by Enrique Granados. Spanish influences in Granados鈥檚 work make the piece accessible and easy to listen to.
All three quartets are coached by violin professor Philip Ficsor, who recently completed a national tour with his own ensemble, American Double.
For information call (805)565-7140 or e-mail dgalvan@westmont.edu.