Mainstage Performance

Contrasts Quartet

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 8:00 pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium

$40–46 (Adult) | $10 (Stanford Student)
$37–43 (Other Student)
$20–23 (Youth Under 18)

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Contrasts Quartet, the celebrated ensemble of clarinet, violin, cello and piano, presents a program of 20th-century works inspired by folk music. The ensemble, whose members have performed with the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performs a mix of duo, trio, and quartet repertoire. The program includes works by Hungarian composers Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók — the former’s Duo for violin and cello (1914), informed by Magyar folk music; and the latter’s virtuosic and playful Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano (1938), composed for the jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman. The performance will be preceded by a short Opening Act curated by Stanford student Broer Otis. The folk component of the Contrasts Quartet’s program energized Otis’s thinking about his opening act and he is inviting three students who are folk-directed, multiinstrumentalists (viola/mandolin/guitar/singer/banjo, etc) to collaborate in a performance of each other’s work. Opening Acts is a new initiative launched by Lively Arts this season to involve Stanford students in the performing arts both onstage and behind the scenes.

Program

OPENING ACT: Curated by Broer Otis. The folk component of the Contrasts Quartet's program energized Otis's thinking about his opening act and he is inviting three students--Jane Reynolds
Max McClure, and Noah Athens--who are folk-directed, multiinstrumentalists (viola/mandolin/guitar/singer/banjo, etc) to collaborate in a performance of each other's work.


Zoltán Kodály: Duo for violin and cello (1914); Béla Bartók: Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano (1938); Aaron Jay Kernis: Ballad for Cello and Piano (2004); Peter Schickele: Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1982)

Acknowledgments

Generously supported by Drs. Michael and Jane Marmor, The Marmor Foundation

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