Daana String Quartet Family Concert: Music in George Washington's Time
Free
Kevin Burke — Irish Session Suite
Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet No. 30 in E-flat major, Op. 33, No. 2, Hob. III:38 "The Joke"
Featuring selections from:
Haydn – String Quartet Op. 33, No. 2 in E-flat major “The Joke” (Austria 1781)
Beethoven – String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4 in C minor (Austria 1799)
Kevin Burke – Irish Session Suite (traditional Irish tunes arranged for string quartet)
Washington’s March (Philadelphia 1784)
Travel to Austria, Ireland and the United States in this journey through music in the days of the American Revolution, the late 1700’s. What did George Washington listen to when he was the first president of the United States? What did the Irish love to sing about? How did Haydn and Beethoven write musical jokes? When was the first concert in America? Learn about the 1780’s and 1790’s in the musical journey with Daana Quartet.
About the Daana String Quartet:
Daana String Quartet is a student ensemble at the University of Washington. As winners of the 2015 UW Piano and Strings Chamber Music Competition, the Quartet is the official scholarship ensemble representing the UW School of Music on and off campus for the 2015–16 academic year. Its specialty is classic music.
Daana String Quartet, April 27, 2015, Edmonds Community College, Blackbox Theater from Visual Media Services, EdCC on Vimeo.
The Quartet was featured in the summer of 2015 as the Fellowship Quartet at the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival near Winthrop WA. Passionate about bringing music out of the concert hall, the ensemble also has performed concerts in Seattle parks as part of the Seattle Chamber Music Festival’s Music Under The Stars program and the KING-FM Lunchtime Chamber Concert Series and at various venues in the Methow Valley.
Mentored by world-renowned music and education faculty at the university and by touring artists who perform in the UW World Series, the Quartet holds a unique position at UW as touring artists who perform in local schools and throughout the community. Much of this is done under the UW Music Link Program, which trains artists to create educational curricula and concerts.
“Daana” is a word in Sanskrit that connotes the practice of cultivating generosity. It captures the Quartet’s goal of bringing free, high-quality chamber music concerts to unexpected locations and educational settings as well as the traditional concert hall.