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Brentano String Quartet's Fragments: Connecting Past and Present

Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (401 Van Ness Ave San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The Brentano String Quartet performs a specially-commissioned program celebrating its 20th anniversary, courtesy of San Francisco Performances. Six contemporary composers created pieces inspired by the unfinished works of several late, great musical giants, linking the current with the classic. The composer pairings include Bach/Sofia Gubaidulina; Haydn/John Harbison; Mozart/Vijay Iyer; Schubert/Bruce Adolphe; and Shostakovich/Stephen Hartke. The quartet will alternate the new compositions with the masters' partially-completed works in an innovative and exciting evening of brilliantly-played music. Violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin, Misha Amory, viola, and Nina Lee, cellist, make up the award-winning chamber ensemble.

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The last date listed for Brentano String Quartet -- Fragments: Connecting Past and Present was Sunday December 4, 2011 / 8:00pm.

Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building
401 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco, CA 94102
Website
415-392-4400
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http://sfperformances.org/performances/1112/BrentanoStringQuartet.html

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  • “The Brentano gave it an excellent performance, and filled the whole afternoon with taut playing that amounted to more than the sum of its parts. The fragments humanized the frail strivings of the old masters, and the new responses made manifest the long tendrils with which living composers are always reaching backward toward tradition." --Boston Globe

Description

San Francisco Performances presents the Brentano String Quartet in a special program that includes a co-commissioned project, titled Fragments: Connecting Past and Present. For this project (and as part the Quartet’s 20th anniversary), the Quartet asked six contemporary composers to respond to unfinished works -- fragments — of late composers. The Quartet includes Mark Steinberg, violin, Serena Canin, violin, Misha Amory, viola and Nina Lee, cello.

New compositions will be played alongside the original works to create an exciting evening of dialogue between music of the past and music of the present.

Fragments:  Connecting Past and Present  

Wuorinen           Marian Tropes (2010)  
Schubert            Quartet in C minor, D703 (unfinished); Allegro assai; Andante (fragment)
Adolphe              Fra(nz)g-mentation (2010)    

Bach                  Contrapunctus XVIII (unfinished) from The Art of Fugue                                      
Gubaidulina      Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H (2002)    

Intermission  

Haydn                     Quartet in D minor, Opus 103; Andante grazioso; Menuet ma non troppo presto
Harbison                 Finale: Presto (2011)    

Shostakovich      Quartet movement  Allegretto
Hartke                   From the Fifth Book (2011)     

Mozart                   Quartet fragment in E minor, K417d
Iyer                         Mozart Effects (2011)   

About the Ticket Supplier: San Francisco Performances

Founded in 1979, San Francisco Performances is the Bay Area's leading independent presenter of chamber music, vocal and instrumental recitals, jazz and contemporary dance. Under the artistic direction of its founder, Ruth Felt, the organization presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities that also strengthen the local performing arts community.