Pro Musica Hebraica presents: The Biava Quartet: An Evening of French Jewish Music
Pro Musica Hebraica is devoted to presenting Jewish classical music, much of it believed lost, forgotten, or rarely performed, in a concert hall setting. The award-winning Biava Quartet returns to play a program of French Jewish music.
- Apr 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Terrace Theater
- Approx. 100 minutes
- $38.00
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About the Program
An Evening of French Jewish Music"A performance rich in vehemence and delicacy. Their interplay claimed extra-sensory precision."
--Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Biava Quartet:
Austin Hartman and Hyunsu Ko, violin
Mary Persin, viola
Gwendolyn Krosnick, cello
And Special Guests Margaret Mezzacappa, mezzo-soprano,
and Konstantin Soukhovetski, piano
The award-winning Biava Quartet, the Lisa Arnhold Quartet in Residence at the Juilliard School and Quartet in Residence at Brevard Music Center, returns to the Kennedy Center with an all-new program exploring the rich legacy of Jewish music in modern France. Joined by special guests mezzo-soprano Margaret Mezzacappa and pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski, they will feature several works by Darius Milhaud, including his quartet based on his own Provençal Jewish musical heritage, a wartime string quartet by Alexandre Tansman, Maurice Ravel's famed Jewish songs, and Charles-Valentin Alkan's remarkable Chopinesque Hebrew prayers, newly arranged for voice and strings. Performance Timing: Part One - 45 min.; Intermission - 15 min.; Part Two - 40 min.
Program:
| TANSMAN - Quartet No. 5 (1940) | |
| MILHAUD - Études sur des thèmes liturgiques du Comtat Venaissin, Op. 442 (1973) | |
| MILHAUD - Quartet No. 7 in B-flat, Op. 87 (1925) | |
| MILHAUD - La Création du monde, Op. 81 | |
| RAVEL - Three Jewish Songs | |
| ALKAN - Trois Anciennes Melodies Juives | |
| ALKAN - Deuxieme Verset du 41 Psaume |
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