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EIGHTIETH YEAR

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2009

JOHN MCGROSSO, VIOLIN ROBERT MEYER, VIOLA

DAVID GILLHAM, VIOLIN KURT BALDWIN, CELLO

THE ARIANNA STRINGQUARTET

Presents a

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THIRTEEN CONSECUTIVE SUNDAY AFTERNOONSTHREE SATURDAY TWILIGHT CONCERTS

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 at 3:00 P.M.

ASSISTING ARTIST:

TIMOTHY COBB, DOUBLE BASS

JOANNA MENDOZA

SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009THE ARTISTS

THE ARIANNA STRING QUARTET has firmly established itself as one of America’s finest chamber ensembles. Formed in 1992, they captured the Grand Prize in the 1994 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize in both the Coleman and Carmel National Competitions. They were also Finalists in the 1999 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition. From 1993-1996, the Arianna Quartet studied with the Vermeer Quartet at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL.

Praised by critics for their warmth and polish, the Chicago Tribune recently said “The silken refinement of the playing was achieved with no loss of expressive vitality or spontaneity. Quartet playing doesn’t get much better than this.” The Arianna Quartet has concertized throughout the United States, Mexico, Japan, Canada and France, and has given successful debuts at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. They have collaborated with artists such as Paul Katz, Gilbert Kalish, Bernard Greenhouse, Andres Cardenes, Richard Stoltzman, and the Vermeer Quartet. The Arianna Quartet has recorded for the Centaur, Albany, and Urtext classical labels.

The Arianna String Quartet has been featured in concerts at the Spoleto, Banff, Norfolk, and Strings in the Mountains festivals, was Ensemble-in-Residence at the Tanglewood Music Center, and was invited by Isaac Stern to perform in his first ever Carnegie Hall master classes. They have been heard on live nationally broadcast performances in Osaka, Japan, and on Canada’s CBC radio, several times as part of Chicago’s prestigious Dame Myra Hess Series, and on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” program. After being awarded a Chamber Music America Residency Grant in 1996, the Arianna String Quartet performed more than four hundred outreach concerts in four years in

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southeast Michigan as Eastern Michigan University’s quartet-in-residence. In 2003, The ASQ was a recipient of a Chamber Music America Residency Grant for their outreach work in St. Louis.

The Arianna String Quartet was recently appointed Faculty Artist Teachers and Quartet-in-Residence in the music department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. They will also continue their concert series at Eastern Michigan University.

TIMOTHY COBB, DOUBLE BASSIn addition to his duties as principal bass of the Met Orchestra and Double Bass Faculty Chair at the Juilliard School, the double bassist Timothy Cobb maintains a busy schedule of chamber collaborations and solo appearances. He collaborates frequently with quartets including the Emerson, Guarneri, Belcea, Leipzig and St. Lawrence, as well as artists such as Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, James Levine and Christian Zacharias among many others. His festival appearances include most of the major American summer festivals: Bridgehampton, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Sarasota and Tanglewood among many others. Timothy Cobb can be heard on all Met recordings beginning in 1986 as well as a 2003 Grammy-nominated L’Histoire du Soldat with the Harmonie Wind Ensemble of New York on Koch records. He is a former member of the Chicaco Symphony, and serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and State University of New York, Purchase, as well as a distinguished artis residency at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, in addition to Juilliard. He last appeared at Music Mountain in 2008 in Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet.

PROGRAM

STRING QUARTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, Felix Mendelssohn

OPUS 12, (1829) (1809-1847)

Adagio non troppo; Allegro non tardante

Canzonetta: Allegretto

Andante espressivo

Molto allegro e vivace

(This is the 3rd performance of this work at Music Mountain)

STRING QUARTET # 2 “INTIMATE LETTERS” Leos Janacek

(1928) (1854-1928)

Andante

Adagio

Moderato

Allegro

(This is the first performance of this work at Music Mountain)

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QUINTET FOR DOUBLE BASS & STRINGS Antonin Dvorak

IN G, OPUS 77 (1875, REVISED.1888) (1841-1804)

Allegro con fuoco

Scherzo; Allegro vivace

Poco andante

Finale; Allegro assai

(This is the 4th performance of this work at Music Mountain)

1841-1904

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STRING QUARTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 12

By Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

In 1829, when Mendelssohn was 20 and traveling through

Scotland, he wrote his sister, Fanny, telling her that his E

Flat Major String Quartet was almost finished. This was

the trip which also inspired the “Hebrides “ Overture and the

“Scottish” Symphony. While labeled Opus 12, it was actually

written two years after Opus 13 and is Mendelssohn’s second

of his six quartets. Like all of Mendelssohn’s work this is a

beautiful piece. It presents a unique feature in that each of

the 4 movements are in a different key. The second movement,

the Canzonetta, will be familiar to all as it is , like the Scherzo

from the Octet, one of those musical creations that has a life

of its own.

This Quartet was first performed here on Sunday, July 12,

1992 by the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

STRING QUARTET # 2 “INTIMATE LETTERS”

By Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

In 1917, Janacek was 63 and vacationing in a Moravian spa

town when he met and fell deeply, wildly in love with the 26

year old wife of a local antique dealer., This young woman,

PROGRAM NOTES

Kamila Stosslova, became his muse for the remaining 12

years of his life, inspiring much of his later works. Their

relationship, which, unfortunately for Janacek, was largely

spiritual, produced more than 700 letters. Most of his survive,

but many of hers to him were burnt by Janacek. A sample will

perhaps indicate the depth of Janacek’s infatuation:

“You stand behind every note, you, living, forceful, loving. The

fragrance of your body, the glow of your kisses—no, really of

mine. Those notes of mine kiss all of you. They call for you

passionately...”

(There is an English translation by John Tyrell from the Czech

edition of his letters. Intimate Letters: Leos Janacek to Kamilla

Stosslova published by Faber, 1994).

The Quartet, “Intimate Letters” was composed in response

to a request from the Bohemian Quartet in 1923 to write two

quartets for them. Given its subtitle by Janacek , himself, as

his inspiration came from the letters between him and Kamila,

it was first performed in 1928, a month after Janacek had

died.

QUINTET FOR DOUBLE BASS & STRINGS IN G,

OPUS 77

By Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Dvorak wrote a considerable amount of chamber music, for

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various instrumental combinations: 14 string quartets, 2 piano

quintets, 3 string quintets, 4 piano trios, 2 piano quartets, a

string sextet, a string trio among others. A large number of

these remain in the modern repertory, celebrated for their

richness of sound, their melody and great musical quality.

The Quintet for Double Bass and String Quartet in G major,

Opus 77, was actually written much earlier in Dvorak’s career

than the opus number would indicate. It dates to 1875, when

Dvorak was 32, and was originally numbered as Opus 18.

However, Dvorak put it away for some 13 years. When Dvorak

was working on some of his earlier works which had not been

published he sent the Quintet off to his publisher, Simrock,

who published it as Opus 77.

When first written, Dvorak entered the work in a competition,

where it won for its “distinction of theme, the technical skill in

polyphonic composition, the mastery of form and the knowledge

of the instruments.” As is the case with many really splendid

pieces, it is performed all too rarely.

The Quintet was first performed here by Alvin Brehm, Bass and

the Manhattan String Quartet on Saturday, June 23, 1984.

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