NSO Kinderkonzert: Musical Opposites

In this lively program, the Kennedy String Quartet shows how composers use opposites to express a stunning range of moods and emotions.

• Mar 26, 2005
• Theater Lab
• Approx. 1 hour
• $14.00

About the Program

About the Program

Comprised of all NSO musicians, the Kennedy String Quartet (Holly Hamilton and Jane Bowyer Stewart, violins; James Dieghan, viola; and David Teie, cello) begins this fast-paced program by demonstrating various musical contrasts—from high and low to loud and soft to fast and slow. Then they play excerpts by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and others to show how composers use opposites to express a stunning range of moods and emotions. They conclude with a performance of the lively finale to Dvorák's "American" Quartet. Opposites really do attract!

Come early for hands-on fun with the Musical Instrument "Petting Zoo," a project of the Women's Committee of the National Symphony Orchestra.

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