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PROGRAM
Ruth Crawford Seeger - Andante from String Quartet (1931)
Béla Bartók - Divertimento (1939) for string orchestra
Ann Cleare - eyam i (it takes an ocean not to) (2009-13)
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
Georg Friedrich Haas - catch as catch can: "lunar eclipse" (2018)
Michael Katz, cello; Steven Beck, piano; Carol McGonnell, clarinet
After a year of online performances, Argento is thrilled to return to the concert stage
and perform in the flesh to a live audience. Author George Grella wrote "Being together for live music increases social bonds among all at hand, musicians and audiences, and that both enhances the vitality of the music making in a positive feedback loop and creates the deep and unpredictable alchemy of a live performance. The point of being present, live, is to not just hear something but feel something."
The concert will be live streamed, but audiences are encouraged to join us in person.
Ruth Crawford Seeger wrote her most famous work, her string quartet in 1931, specifying that the 3rd movement, an Andante, can be performed by a string orchestra as well. This movement is structured on a repeating inhalation/exhalation gesture.
Bartók’s Divertimento for Strings, was written as a true concert piece for pleasure (literally “divertimento”) for Paul Sacher, but have Bartók's characteristic rigor and depth. Argento performs a version for 15 strings. The outer movements burst with rhythmic energy and virtuosity, contrasting with the meditative atmosphere of the other works on the program.
"eyam i" (2009-2013), composed for Argento’s clarinettist, Carol McGonnell, by fellow Irish composer Ann Cleare. Eyam is a small village in Derbyshire, England, that responded to the discovery of a plague there in 1665, by shutting down its borders and isolating, rather than letting the infection spread. The piece deals with isolation and infiltration.
The featured work on the program is a recent work (2018) by Georg Friedrich Haas entitled catch as catch can: "lunar eclipse," written for Trio Catch. This work embodies Haas’ sonorous microtonal world through the resonances of the piano, played by Steven Beck, coupled with timbres from clarinet, basset horn, bass clarinet, played by Carol McGonnell and cello, performed by Michael Katz.
Argento's 2021-22 season programming is made possible by the Reed Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, the BMI Foundation, and the generosity of individual supporters. Additional support is provided in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave, Fl 7th, New York, NY 10001, United States