past schedule

F.J. Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op 71 No 2
Ruth Crawford String Quartet 1931
Elena Ruehr String Quartet No. 12 (world premiere)

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Works written for string quartet serve as an ideal setting for innovation and composers use them as laboratories to experiment and create new forms from well established ones.  Franz Joseph Haydn wrote the Opus 71 set of string quartets to play in large concert halls for his second tour of London, public spaces with large audiences that contrast with the more intimate court settings for which he wrote his earlier works while in the service of the Esterhazy court.  Ruth Crawford’s String Quartet 1931, a defining work of American modernism, explored a sound world that influences composers to this day. This program concludes with the world premiere of Elena Ruehr’s String Quartet No. 12, “Moving Shapes”.  Written for the Arneis Quartet in 2024, these five movements were inspired by different kinds of shapes that move: a Fourier Transform, pinwheels, shifting clouds, sunlight reflecting on calm water, and turbulent ocean waves.

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Carlos Simon Warmth from Other Suns
Ruth Crawford String Quartet 1931
F.J. Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op. 71 No. 2

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum partners with Castle of our Skins to celebrate the centenary of American composer Julia Perry.

TriChrome
Arthur Foote At Dusk
Toru Takemitsu And then I knew ‘twas wind
Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp

Given as part of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute

Arneis Quartet

Hosted by Tania León

Laktawan at Tumalon for viola and kulintang by Susie Ibarra

Daniel Louis Doña, viola
Susie Ibarra, percussion

With LGBTQ+ rights and expression under attack, voices reach out across generations in HERE I AM: I AM HERE, a newly commissioned cantata by composer Andrea Clearfield, based on open letters to transgender youth and survivors of conversion therapy. Paired with Ronald Perera’s When Music Sounds and Ola Gjeilo Luminous Night of the Soul.

Robbie Merfeld Intervals 2
Loeffler Quintet

Given as part of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute

Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op. 71 No. 2
Carlos Simon The Warmth From Other Suns
Bartok String Quartet No. 6, BB 119

Given as part of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute

Anthony R. Green Sacred Ground (2021)
‍Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel String Quartet in Eb major (1834)
‍Béla Bartók String Quartet No. 6, BB 119

Works by Green, Hensel & Bartok

Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 76 No. 4 “Sunrise”
Rachel D.W. Rome asylum hill (2016)
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F major (1903)

Works by Beethoven, Kaminsky, and Frank.

Music for Viola, Piano, and Kulintang