Sep 18Sep 20Livestream

Music that evolves before your ears.

Works that bend, morph, and reinvent - where folk tunes become avant-garde anthems, classical forms twist into surreal dreams, and every note holds the thrill of change. Julia Wolfe’s Blue Dress fractures Appalachian fiddle music into something fiercely new, while György Ligeti’s Métamorphoses nocturnes  warps time and texture like moonlight through a prism. And in Joseph Haydn’s Quartet op. 76 No. 6, even 18th-century elegance takes an unexpected turn.

- Curated by Kevin Rogers

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Program

Julia Wolfe - Blue Dress

György Ligeti - String Quartet No. 1 (Métamorphoses nocturnes)

        I. Allegro grazioso

        II. Vivace, capriccioso

        III. A tempo

        IV. Adagio, mesto

        V. Presto – Prestissimo

        VI. Molto sostenuto – Andante tranquillo

        VII. Più mosso

        VIII. Tempo di Valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capriccioso

        IX. Subito prestissimo

        X. Subito: molto sostenuto

        XI. Allegretto, un poco gioviale

        XII. Allarg. Poco più mosso

        XIII. Subito allegro con moto, string. poco a poco sin al prestissimo

        XIV. Prestissimo

        XV. Allegro comodo, gioviale

        XVI. Sostenuto, accelerando – Ad libitum, senza misura

  XVII. Lento

Joseph Haydn - String Quartet op. 76 no. 6 in E flat Major

‍ ‍ I. Allegretto – Allegro

        II. Fantasia. Adagio

        III. Menuetto. Presto

       IV. Finale. Allegro spiritoso.

Performers

Friction Quartet

Otis Harriel, violin

Kevin Rogers, violin

Mitso Floor, viola

Doug Machiz, cello