Aizuri Quartet: What’s Past is Prologue – Program 2 (on-demand until 7/14/2021)
Free
Barbara Strozzi — L’amante modesto “The Modest Lover”
Eleanor Alberga — String Quartet No. 1
Alex Fortes — Selected works
Emma Frucht, violin
Miho Saegusa, violin
Ayande Kozasa, viola
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Barbara Strozzi, arr. Alex Fortes – L'usignuolo (“The Nightingale”)
Barbara Strozzi, arr. Alex Fortes – L’amante modesto (“The Modest Lover”)
Eleanor Alberga – "II. Espressivo with Wonder and Yearning" from String Quartet No. 1
The GRAMMY Award-winning string ensemble performs What's Past is Prologue, two digital concerts of music by female composers spanning the past millennia, filmed March 2021 at the studio of renowned sculptor Joel Shapiro.
The phrase "what's past is prologue," from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, "has become a modern shorthand for the notion that history set the context for the present," says Aizuri cellist Karen Ouzounian. "Contemporary composers reflect on the work of those who came before them as they push the string quartet medium towards the future." The dramatic setting for this two-part program is Shapiro's large-scale geometric sculptures that suspend from the ceiling and extend from the walls and floors of his studio in Long Island City, Queens.
Program 2, available June 30, offers Barbara Strozzi’s (b. 1619) L'usignuolo (“The Nightingale”) and L’amante modesto (“The Modest Lover”), arranged by Alex Fortes; and British, Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga’s (b. 1949) second movement from String Quartet No. 1, a life-affirming work inspired by a physics lecture in which the composer learned we are all made of star dust.
In Conversation: Aizuri Quartet
BAC and Tippet Rise present a conversation with Aizuri Quartet on Monday, June 28 at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific
Free, live on Zoom.
Registrations available beginning May 24; more details here: https://bacnyc.org/performances/performance/aizuri-quartet
Program 2 is available June 23; more information here: https://livemusicproject.org/event/aizuri-quartet-whats-past-is-prologue-program-1-on-demand-until-772021/
Streaming June 30 at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific until July 14 at 5pm Eastern / 2pm Pacific.
Streaming information forthcoming. Check here for updates: https://bacnyc.org/performances/performance/aizuri-quartet
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