Chamber Music: Crossroads

Chamber Concert

Saturday, March 9, 2019, 3 p.m.
Steinway Piano Gallery Detroit, 2700 E West Maple Rd, Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390

Join a string quartet of Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians for the chamber music concert “Crossroads” at Steinway Piano Gallery.

The classical music road evolved through the centuries with distinct styles that were characteristic during certain historical periods. The music of the 20th century, however, continued without a dominant style. Composers created a highly diverse works in many different musical styles, such as Modernism, Impressionism, post-Romanticism, Neoclassicism, Expressionism, Minimalism  Atonality, Serialism, musique concrète, and electronic music. Bartók, Barber, and Glass all took a different tack in their works with a very distinct personal voice. Their styles are at crossroads.

This concert is given in preparation for the Romanian concerts as part of this season’s American Romanian Festival.

Concert Program

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
String Quartet No. 5 
Allegro
Adagio molto
Scherzo: alla bulgarese
Andante
Finale: Allegro vivace

Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
String Quartet, Op. 11 in b minor (1936)
Molto allegro e appassionato
Molto adagio [attacca]
Molto allegro (come prima)

– INTERMISSION –

Philip Glass (b. 1937)
String Quartet No. 5 (1991)
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