Into the new year with minimal music and jazz
Rhythm is a Dancer
Program
John Adams [*1947]
John’s Book of Alleged Dances
»Hammer & Chisel«
Florence Beatrice Price [1887–1953]
Streichquartett Nr. 2 a-Moll
John Adams
John’s Book of Alleged Dances
»Rag the Bone«
Wynton Marsalis [*1961]
Meeelaan
PAUSE
John Adams
John’s Book of Alleged Dances
»Alligator Escalator«
Antonín Dvořák [1841–1904]
Streichquartett Nr. 12 F-Dur (»Amerikanisches«)
George Gershwin [1898–1937]
Variations on I Got Rhythm (Bearbeitung für Streichquartett von Matthew Naughtin)
Happy New Year! To mark the turn of the year, our orchestra musicians present works that express inspiration and new beginnings: the wanderlust in Antonín Dvořák's »American« String Quartet No. 12, the jazz and tango sounds in Meeelaan by contemporary American composer Wynton Marsalis, and String Quartet No. 2 composed by Florence Price. It represents her determination to leave her homeland in order to finally make her music accessible to the public. They all stand for a new beginning. John Adams' John's Book of Alleged Dances provides the humorous note of the evening. Adams himself said of his composition that the appropriate dance steps still had to be invented. But nothing could be easier, because: Rhythm is a dancer.
John Adams [*1947]
John’s Book of Alleged Dances
»Hammer & Chisel«
Florence Beatrice Price [1887–1953]
Streichquartett Nr. 2 a-Moll
John Adams
John’s Book of Alleged Dances
»Rag the Bone«
Wynton Marsalis [*1961]
Meeelaan
PAUSE
John Adams
John’s Book of Alleged Dances
»Alligator Escalator«
Antonín Dvořák [1841–1904]
Streichquartett Nr. 12 F-Dur (»Amerikanisches«)
George Gershwin [1898–1937]
Variations on I Got Rhythm (Bearbeitung für Streichquartett von Matthew Naughtin)
Happy New Year! To mark the turn of the year, our orchestra musicians present works that express inspiration and new beginnings: the wanderlust in Antonín Dvořák's »American« String Quartet No. 12, the jazz and tango sounds in Meeelaan by contemporary American composer Wynton Marsalis, and String Quartet No. 2 composed by Florence Price. It represents her determination to leave her homeland in order to finally make her music accessible to the public. They all stand for a new beginning. John Adams' John's Book of Alleged Dances provides the humorous note of the evening. Adams himself said of his composition that the appropriate dance steps still had to be invented. But nothing could be easier, because: Rhythm is a dancer.