Join DSO Musicians for Black Angels, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University, October 4, 2015, at the Shaver Music Recital Hall, to enjoy performances of works by Crumb and Brahms.
Join DSO Musicians for Musical Chatter, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University, November 1, 2015, at the Shaver Music Recital Hall, to enjoy performances of works by Schoenfield and Grigoriu.
Join DSO Musicians for Black Angels, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University at the Shaver Music Recital Hall.
Join us for Passion and Youth, a Chamber Concert at Wayne State University at the Shaver Music Recital Hall.
Join us on March 3, 2023, at The War Memorial in Grosse Pointe Farms for the chamber music concert “Black Angels” featuring compositions by George Crumb and Constantin Silvestri.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra & The American Romanian Festival celebrating its 20th-anniversary season present an evening of works centered around the subject of death. The first work on the program, Rota II by Romanian composer Cornelia Tăutu, is a duet for violin and violoncello that opens slowly and austerely and evokes the contemplative nature of a long-forgotten ancestral melody. George Crumb’s reaction to the horrors of the Vietnam War is expressed through his threnody, Black Angels. The work is structured around the numbers 13 and 7, numerals often related to fate and destiny, and several tonal musical quotations can be found throughout the piece, including snippets from our next work on the program, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet. Written in 1824, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” was the composer’s coming to terms with his long-term illness and impending death, and has been called “one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire.”
The American Romanian Festival celebrates its 20th-anniversary season with an evening of works centered around the subject of death. The recently commissioned piece by Ionica Pop, Remembering Ţăranu, employs a twelve-tone row, which also serves as a musical cryptogram to honor the recently deceased Romanian composer Cornel Ţăranu. George Crumb’s reaction to the horrors of the Vietnam War is expressed through his threnody, Black Angels. The work is structured around the numbers 13 and 7, numerals often related to fate and destiny, and several tonal musical quotations can be found throughout the piece, including snippets from our next work on the program, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet. Written in 1824, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” was the composer’s coming to terms with his long-term illness and impending death, and has been called “one of the pillars of the chamber music repertoire.”