Here & Now Series: Zhou Long, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Allen Shawn / Cassatt Quartet with Doris Stevenson
$35
- Doris Stevenson, piano
- Muneko Otani, violin
- Jennifer Leshnower, violin
- Rosemary Nelis, viola
- Gwen Krosnick, cello
Dorothy Rudd Moore — Modes
Allen Shawn — Piano Quintet (world premiere)
The Cassatt String Quartet performs the world premiere of a piano quintet by Allen Shawn. They are joined by pianist Doris Stevenson, performing the work in a program that also features music by Zhou Long and Dorothy Rudd Moore.
About Cassatt String Quartet
Hailed for its "mighty rapport and relentless commitment," the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for nearly four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing's Central Conservatory. The Quartet's prolific discography—featured three times in Alex Ross's "10 Best Classical Recordings" column in The New Yorker—includes over forty recordings, for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels.
The Cassatt Quartet's 2023-2024 season has included major performances and recordings of works by Tania León, Victoria Bond, Adolphus Hailstork, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, and Daniel S. Godfrey; their annual residencies at the Seal Bay Festival and Cassatt in the Basin!; hometown concerts in the New York area, including at Symphony Space and Bargemusic; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain.
The CSQ is named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.
https://www.cassattquartet.com/About Bargemusic
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a "wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics." Experience why critics call Bargemusic "the perfect chamber-music hall" and why artists say it is "unlike any other place in the world to perform."
https://www.bargemusic.org/