For the second concert of the season of its series Music to See, the Molinari Quartet offers a very diversified program with four works, two of which are by Canadian composers. Philip Glass : Quartet no 8 (2018) Guus Janssen : Streepjes (1981) Marjan Mozetich : Lament in the trampled Garden (1992) Kelly-Marie-Murphy : […]
With this concert, the Molinari Quartet completes its concert cycle of all the string quartets by minimalist American composer Philip Glass. This concert features the last four quartets by the composer. Philip Glass (1937) Suite for Bent (1997) Quartet Satz (2017) Quartet no 8 (2018) Quartet no 9 King Lear (2022)
“Canadian Rhythms,” features three Canadian works with lively rhythms. From composer Kelly-Marie Murphy, you will hear Dark Energy, a work commissioned as a compulsory piece for the Banff International String Quartet Competition. R. Murray Schafer's Fourth Quartet is a three-movement work whose middle movement is a fireworks display of sixteenth notes. Blair Thompson's first string quartet, «Internesses», will be premiered at this concert.
