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Australian String Quartet: Abundance

Event

Australian String Quartet: Abundance

  • Date: Tuesday, 1 September 2015, 7pm
  • Venue: Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University — 140 Grey St, Southbank, South Brisbane, QLD
  • Series: This event is part of the ASQ National Season 2015 series
  • Tickets: Adult: $70 | Concession: $50 | Under 30: $30 — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on 136246

Event Details

Mozart, String Quartet no 15 in D minor K421
Matthew Hindson,
String Quartet No.3: Ngeringa (World premiere performances)
Webern, Langsamer Satz
Smetana,
String Quartet no 1 in E minor, From my life
With guest violinists Susie Park and Brendan Joyce

*Commissioned by Ngeringa Art

According to his wife, Constanza, Mozart wrote his D minor string quartet during the birth of their first child – and the leaps in the second movement represent her cries. It leaves a lasting record of the event better than any other!

Matthew Hindson’s engaging new work, Ngeringa, has been generously commissioned by Ngeringa Arts to commemorate the opening of its magnificent new cultural centre in the Adelaide Hills, where the work will have its world premiere.

Webern’s quartet movement was written on a mountain holiday with his fiancée and was intended to be a movement from a highly romantic quartet. The early movement does not hint at the serial style of his following music, but clearly shows his rich romantic musicality and compositional intensity.

Smetana’s quartet titled From my life is a programmatic story told in the autumn of life following the onset of the composer's deafness. This casts a shadow over the end of the work, but otherwise represents hope, joy and an abundance of life and love.

Suitability: Not suitable for children aged 4 and under

Featured non-Australian music: Mozart, Webern, Smetana

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 1800 040 444 or by email to asq@asq.com.au

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