On Friday April 22, 2022 at 7pm, the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello) will be presented in two concerts by 405 Shrader (405 Shrader St.). Seating for these performances is extremely limited. Attendees are strongly encouraged to make a reservation by emailing
[email protected].
Telegraph Quartet will present a program that includes Grazyna Bacewicz's Quartet No. 4 and Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132.
Grazyna Bacewicz's String Quartet No. 4 was also composed in 1951, several years after the end of World War II. During this time, Bacewicz lived through the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. The work opens with a kind of sorrow-tinged hope that builds to a joyous, Tchaikovsky-esque third movement. Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor is one of three, Op. 127, 132, and 130, that were commissioned by Russian nobleman, Prince Nikolai Borisovich Galitzin. This piece gives a particularly strong reflection of Beethoven's health, which was in a place of severe decline at the time he was working on this composition. The impact on Beethoven's creativity was so great that the piece's third movement, which moves at a notably slow tempo, came to include the title, Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart -- which translates to Song of Thanksgiving to the Deity from a convalescent in the Lydian mode -- signifying the composer's gratitude after the worst of his sickness had subsided.
$30.
Presented by 405 Shrader