2011–2012 Season
Brooklyn Rider
The adventurous, genre-defying string quartet Brooklyn Rider combines a wildly eclectic repertoire with a gripping performance style that is attracting legions of fans and drawing critical acclaim from classical, world and rock critics. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with "recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble." The musicians play in concert halls and clubs, in venues as varied as Joe's Pub in New York City, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Todai-ji Temple in Japan, the Library of Congress and the South By Southwest Festival. Through creative programming and global collaborations, Brooklyn Rider illuminates music for its audiences in ways that are "stunningly imaginative" (Lucid Culture).
This past season Brooklyn Rider appeared at the Cologne Philharmonie, American Academy in Rome, Malmö Festival in Sweden, and SXSW Festival as the only classical group invited to play there. The quartet made its Spoleto Festival USA debut to capacity crowds in June, following an extensive cross-country tour from California to Philadelphia's Kimmel Center and New York City. "The dazzling fingers-in-every-pie versatility that Brooklyn Rider exhibits is one of the wonders of contemporary music," wrote the Los Angeles Times.
February 24 at 8 p.m.
Play List
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Seven StepsBROOKLYN RIDER
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Suite for String Quartet from BentPHILIP GLASS
(b. 1937)- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
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Culai*LEV 'LJOVA' ZHURBIN (b. 1978)
- The Game of Life
- The Song of Life
- Love Potion Expired
- Doina Neacsu
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Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
(1770-1827)- Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
- Allegro molto vivace
- Allegro moderato; Adagio
- Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile
- Presto
- Adagio quasi un poco andante
- Allegro
Intermission
BrooklescaCOLIN JACOBSEN
(b. 1978)
* This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.