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Performers
Dover Quartet
- Joel Link, Violin
- Bryan Lee, Violin
- Julianne Lee, Viola
- Camden Shaw, Cello
Program
FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
PURA FÉ Rattle Songs (orch. Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate) (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
JEROD IMPICHCHA̲ACHAAHA' TATE Abokkoli' Taloowa' (Woodland Songs) (NY Premiere; co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, "American"
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The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Felix Mendelssohn seldom used music as a vehicle for expressing his innermost feelings. But the death of his sister Fanny in May 1847—less than six months before his own demise—seems to have compelled a musical response. Mendelssohn sublimated his grief in the powerful F-minor Quartet, his last and arguably greatest piece of chamber music.
PURA FÉ Rattle Songs
Rattle Songs is based on the shell shaking styles of woodland tribes and was featured on the influential 1994 Mahk Jchi album by Pura Fé’s group Ulali. The songs are reimagined for the string quartet by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, who writes, “Pura Fé created Rattle Songs as an homage to her Native North American cousins, and it is my hope that my orchestrations create another layer of honoring our people.”
JEROD IMPICHCHAACHAAHA' TATE Abokkoli' Taloowa' (Woodland Songs)
In the composer’s words, “Abokkoli' Taloowa' (Woodland Songs), commissioned by the Dover Quartet, is a modern Chickasaw composition about woodland animals from our Southeastern homelands. Each movement is like an epitome—a deep, dramatic, and rhapsodic expression of my feelings of being a Chickasaw man from a beautiful and robust culture.”
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, “American”
In the mid-1890s, Dvořák spent parts of three years in the United States as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. During that happy period, he composed the “New World” Symphony, as well as a pair of chamber works that inevitably acquired the nickname “American”: the String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, and the String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97. The former, written during an idyllic summer sojourn in Iowa, has long been one of the Bohemian composer’s most popular works.