Vogler String Quartet

"Delivering everything we can ask of chamber music" (The Washington Post), Berlin's Vogler String Quartet celebrates 25 years with a program centered around a lost generation of Jewish composers living in Russia.

• Nov 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM
• Terrace Theater
• 95 minutes
• $32.00

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About the Program

Artists:

• Vogler String Quartet
• Tim Vogler , violin
• Frank Reinecke , violin
• Stefan Fehlandt , viola
• Stephan Forck , cello
• Jascha Nemtsov , piano (guest artist)
• Alexander Fiterstein , clarinet (guest artist)

Celebrating the Vogler String Quartet's 25th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Vogler's collaborative ZIMRO Project incorporates Jewish art music into their soaring chamber music program. Founded in 2008, the group is inspired by the Zimro Ensemble, chamber players active almost a century ago in St. Petersburg, Russia. Keeping with the Center's Focus on Russia, the program opens with Prokofiev's lauded Overture on Hebrew Themes. Then the Vogler launches into pieces pulled from their recently acclaimed recording, Zimro: A Broken Concert Tour--each piece a work of inspired modernism created by the past century's most creative Russian-Jewish composers.

Running Time:  95 Minutes
Act I:  40 minutes
 Intermission:  15 minutes
Act II:  40 minutes

  Program:

PROKOFIEV - Overture on Hebrew Themes

KREJN - Prelude

ACHRON - Selections from Children's Suite

CHAJES - Hebrew Suite

GOLIJOV - Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for Klezmer clarinet and String Quartet

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Focus on Russia is supported through the generosity of the HRH Foundation.

The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts are supported by generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas.

International Programming at the Kennedy Center is supported by the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.



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