with the Avalon String Quartet:
“A Dvorák Sighting”
String quartet & a trio
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Sondheim Center
200 N Main, Fairfield, Iowa
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Celebrating Dvorák in Iowa with the old and the new! We have heard the beloved bit of Iowa history that tells us how the world-famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorák came to Iowa to live and work for three months in the summer of 1893. The Avalon Quartet will play Dvorák’s American Quartet –written when he was in Iowa. So what’s new? Renowned composer, Harvey Sollberger, has recently retired to his Iowa roots and has focused the attention of his compositional genius on his native state. Sollberger took a 21st century look at Dvorák’s famous Quartet and composed an extended work for flute, viola and guitar. Titled Spillville, this trio is inspired by Dvorák’s quartet and features Avalon violist Tony Devroye performing with Jan Boland (flute) and John Dowdall (guitar).
The Avalon Quartet with
Jan Boland, Flute
and
John Dowdall, Guitar
PROGRAM
String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, "American" by Antonin Dvorák
1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Lento
3. Molto vivace
4. Finale: vivace ma non troppo
Intermission
Spillville (2006): Trio for flute, viola and guitar
by Harvey Sollberger (b. 1938)
1. Far From Home
Serenade 1: Dobrú Noc, Má Milá [Sleep, my Love] (viola & flute)
2. It is Very Strange Here . . .
Serenade II: Dudacka Polka & Czaldy Waldy (viola & guitar)
3. Dvorak and the Scarlet Tanager (his damn bird)
Serende III: Tece Voda, Tece [Flow Waters, Flow]
(flute & guitar)
4. Finale, Hasty Retreat
Humoresque by Antonin Dvorák (arr. Jan Boland)
Tickets $15 general. $12 students, seniors 65 yrs,
IA Course participants, children (under 12 yrs free).
Call the Sondheim Center box office at 641-472-2787.
Red Cedar Chamber Music’s Rural Outreach program, in collaboration with the Chamber Music Society Fairfield, presents a Dvorák Sighting at the Sondheim Center in Fairfield, Friday, April 9 at 8 pm. Guest artists, the Avalon String Quartet, violinists Blaise Magniere and Marie Wang, violist Anthony Devroye and cellist Cheng-Hou Lee, perform Antonin Dvorák's beloved American Quartet, written in Spillville, Iowa in 1893. Dvorak's quartet serves as the inspiration for Spillville by Iowa composer Harvey Sollberger, which is played on the second half of the concert by the Avalon Quartet violist Anthony Devroye, flutist Jan Boland and guitarist John Dowdall. You'll also hear Dvorák's Humoresque in an arrangement for six instruments.
Spillville (2006), Harvey Sollberger’s seven-movement trio for flute, viola and guitar, provides a modern context for the musical ideas presented by Antonin Dvorák in his American Quartet.
The idea for Spillville grew out of a variation Sollberger wrote for Red Cedar Chamber Music’s 2004 group commissioning project Spillville Variations on a Theme by Dvorák. Sollberger found the experience writing this variation, based on the Scherzo movement of the American Quartet, so stimulating and intriguing, that he also composed variations on the quartet’s remaining three movements. This set of four variations forms the core of Spillville, each variation using melodic, rhythmic and structural ideas from the corresponding movement of the American Quartet. Sollberger links the variation movements together with three Serenades that are his arrangements of traditional Czech folk songs. Spillville is a fascinating reinterpretation of Dvorák’s musical language as refracted through Sollberger’s twenty-first century prism.
Sponsorship for Rural Outreach is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the James & Norma Jean Rosborough Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Alliant Energy Foundation. Sonsorship for the Avalon Quartet provided by George J. Naxera Jr. and Margaret Haupt. Additional support is provided by the Chamber Music Society Fairfield.
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