Friction Presents: Transformation - June 6th

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 nocturneswarps 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

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

Friction Quartet

Otis Harriel, violin

Kevin Rogers, violin

Mitso Floor, viola

Doug Machiz, cello