Arts at Tenri presents
Borromeo
String Quartet
March 7, 2008, 8:00pm
ARTS AT TENRI will continue its 2007-2008 season with
a performance by the critically acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet,
recent winners of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Borromeo's
will center around Beethoven in a program which contrasts the composers
youthful innocence with the intense reflection of his last two years.
Beethoven's Op. 18 #3 is the first string quartet he wrote and carries
with it the radiant sunshine of his musical youth. The Grosse Fugue
is perhaps Beethoven's most advanced work, a work the composer himself
was intensely proud of, and a work which he summed up with rapture
the end of his life and the ultimate possibilities of his musical
craftsmanship. These two contrasting works will be presented along
with Dmitri Shostakovich's 12th String Quartet which, like Beethoven's
Grosse Fuge, was written during the composers last creative period
in 1968, when he was run down by advancing ill-health and countless
visits to the hospital, but still discovering new ways to forward
his music. This work is an undeniable triumph against the odds.
Adam Baer of the New York Sun, said that "This group's intimate
Tenri concerts have become one of New York's best kept musical secrets"
and indeed it is the Borromeo's favorite performance space in Manhattan
because of its intimacy, informality, and audience vibe.
Program (in performance order)
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 3
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12
Beethoven "Grosse Fuge" Op. 133
The Place
Tenri Cultural Institute
43A West 13th Street, New York, NY
(212) 645-2800
Tickets
$20
general, $12 students/seniors. At the door: $25 general, $15 students/seniors