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

PAUSE

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 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. 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.