Pop-up Chamber Concert at Bryant Park

September 23, 2020

Bryant Park

Description

A string quartet featuring ASO’s concertmaster Cyrus Beroukhim, principal violin Richard Rood, principal viola William Frampton, and cellist Alberto Parrini will perform Samuel Barber’s String Quartet Opus 11, George Walker’s String Quartet no. 1 “Lyric,” and Nino Rota’s Quartetto per archi.

The program was conceived to explore George Walker’s brilliant String Quartet no. 1. The late resident of Montclair, NJ, Walker (1922-2018) was the first African American winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music, graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Until his death in 2018, the middle movement of his Quartet no. 1, later arranged as Lyric for Strings, was the most frequently performed orchestral work by a living American composer. Similarly, the middle movement of Barber’s Quartet opus 11 is “one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music in the world” (NPR), later arranged by the composer for orchestra as Adagio for Strings. Nino Rota is best known for his film score to The Godfather, and his scores to the films of Fellini and Zeferelli. Walker, Barber, and Rota studied composition with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute, and listeners can hear how these three great composers who a shared mentor found their own voices in their string quartets written between 1935 and 1946.

Artists, staff, and audience members will be required to follow all current COVID-19 guidelines.

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Details

September 23, 2020
5:30 PM
Bryant Park
FREE

Program

Love theme from Romeo and Juliet for string quartet
Nino Rota
Arr. by Matthew Naughtin

Quartetto per archi (1948/54)
Nino Rota

I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio non troppo
III. Allegro robusto

String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (1935)
Samuel Barber

I. Molto allegro e appassionato
II. Molto adagio
III. Molto allegro

String Quartet No. 1, Lyric (1946)
George Walker (1922-2018)

I. Allegro
II. Molto adagio
III. Allegro con fuoco

The concert will be played without intermission and there is no reception.

Artists

cyrusberoukhim

Cyrus Beroukhim, Concertmaster

richardrood_fixed

Richard Rood, Principal Violin II

willframpton_pp

William Frampton, Principal Viola

albertoparinni

Alberto Parrini

Cello