July 18, 2023: Brentano String Quartet

by | May 23, 2023 | Program Notes

String Quartet in D Major, K.499 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Mozart’s K. 499 Quartet is subtitled the “Hoffmeister” Quartet, after his friend (and sometime publisher) Franz Hoffmeister.  A more apt, descriptive title for the work might be the “Figaro” Quartet,...

July 13, 2023: John Corigliano: Living Legend

by | May 23, 2023 | Program Notes

Gazebo Dances John Corigliano (b. 1938) Gazebo Dances was originally written as a set of four-hand piano pieces dedicated to certain of my pianist friends. I later arranged the suite for orchestra and for concert band, and it is from the latter version that the title...

July 11, 2023: JACK Quartet: New York Stories

by | May 23, 2023 | Program Notes

Structures for String Quartet (1951) Morton Feldman (1926-1987) Although Morton Feldman’s best-known innovation is the devising of graphical scores that permit a range of choices (of, say, pitches to be made by the performer), the present composition is not such...

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