Fall Concerts
Sō PERCUSSION
Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon, NYArcoStrum, violin & guitar
Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon, NYLi Zhihui — Ink Orchid Pavilion 水墨兰亭 (Recomposed by ArcoStrum)
Haihuai Huang — Horse Racing 赛⻢ (arr. ArcoStrum)
Antonio Vivaldi — Spring from The Four Seasons (arr. ArcoStrum) - I. Allegro
Astor Piazzolla — Primavera Porteña (Buenos Aires Spring) (arr. ArcoStrum)
Antonio Vivaldi — Summer from The Four Seasons (arr. ArcoStrum) - I. Allegro non molto
Choi Jun Young — Endless Love from The Myth 神话 (arr. ArcoStrum)
Manuel de Falla — Danza Ritual del Fuego (arr. David Galvez)
Manuel de Falla — Danza Española from La Vida Breve (arr. Kreisler)
Radamés Gnattali — Suite Retratos (arr. ArcoStrum) - IV. Chiquinha Gonzaga
Domenico Scarlatti — Keyboard Sonata, K. 141 (arr. ArcoStrum)
John Williams — Theme from Schindler’s List (arr. ArcoStrum)
Antonio Vivaldi — Summer from The Four Seasons (arr. ArcoStrum) - III. Presto
Astor Piazzolla — Invierno Porteño (Buenos Aires Winter) (arr. ArcoStrum)
Antonio Vivaldi — Winter from The Four Seasons (arr. David Galvez) - I. Allegro non molto
Polyphia — Playing God (arr. ArcoStrum)
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EMANUEL AX
Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon, NYL. van Beethoven — Sonata Op. 27, No. 1, Quasi una Fantasia
Arnold Schoenberg — Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
L. van Beethoven — Sonata Op. 27, No. 2 (Quasi una Fantasia) "Moonlight"
Arnold Schoenberg — 6 Little Pieces Op. 19
Robert Schumann — Fantasy Op. 17
Sponsored by Margery and Arthur Groten, in memory of Adeline Lesk
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BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street, Beacon, NY
ARNAUD SUSSMANN, VIOLIN
MICHAEL STEPHEN BROWN, PIANO
Drawing inspiration from his own grandfather’s survival of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Arnaud Sussmann and pianist Michael Stephen Brown will perform works by Jewish composers whose lives were directly impacted by the war.
Erwin Schulhoff: Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 1 (1911)
Robert Dauber: Serenade (1942)
Pavel Haas: Suite for Oboe and Piano, Op. 17 (arr. for Violin and Piano) (1939)
Samuel Adler: Lullaby (based on an old Hebrew folk tune) (1984)
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Op. 47 (1949)
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PUBLIQuartet
Vijay Iyer:Dig The Say (2012)
Fats Waller: Curtis Stewart Pavement Pounding Rose (1929 / 2019)
Improvisations on “Law Years” and “Street Woman” by Ornette Coleman: MIND | THE | GAP: Free Radicals (2021)
Improvisations on the music of Alice Coltrane, Ida Cox, Betty Davis, and Tina Turner: MIND | THE | GAP: Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues (2021)
Duke EllingtonCome Sunday (1942)
Improvisations on Antonin Dvorak’s “American” Quartet (Op. 96): MIND | THE | GAP: What is American? (2016)
PAST EVENT
LARA ST. JOHN, violin and MARTIN KENNEDY, piano
Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G Minor, L. 140
César Franck: Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano
Jessie Montgomery: Rhapsody No. 2 (solo violin)
Milica Paranosic: Bubamara (solo violin), Various Tunes violin/piano
Martin Kennedy: Czardashian Rhapsody
PAST EVENT
PARKER QUARTET
Caroline Shaw: Valencia (2012)
György Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2 (1968)
L. van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1
PAST EVENT
VERONA QUARTET with JIJI, guitar
Isaac Albeniz: Asturias (Leyenda) for solo guitar PAST EVENT
Gulli Bjornsson: Dynjandi for solo guitar (2019)
Roland Dyens: Tango en Skaï for guitar and string quartet
Luigi Boccherini: Guitar Quintet in D Major, G. 448 'Fandango'
Niccolo Paganini: Caprice No. 24, arranged for guitar and string quartet