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October 1, 2014

EMERSON STRING QUARTET

Gates Concert Hall Newman Center for the Performing Arts

Eugene Drucker, violin Philip Setzer, violin Lawrence Dutton, viola Paul Watkins, cello

University of Denver

Henry Purcell Chacony in G minor (1659-1695) (arranged for string quartet by Benjamin Britten)

Eugene Drucker, first violin

Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op. 33, no. 5

(1732-1809) Vivace assai Largo e cantabile Scherzo Finale

Eugene Drucker, first violin

Lowell Liebermann String Quartet No. 5, Op. 126

(b. 1961) Eugene Drucker, first violin

Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet No. 5 was commissioned

by Music Accord for the Emerson String Quartet.

INTERMISSION

Dmitri Shostakovich

(1906-1975)

String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 Allegretto Moderato con moto Allegro non troppo Adagio - Moderato

Philip Setzer, first violin

from dry and tart over clean and zesty all the way to lustrous and singing. Listening to them pass tiny rhythmic motifs around the group, I was struck by how evenly calibrated these timbres were.” The New York Times.

In October, Paul Watkins performs with the Emerson Quartet for the first time in Carnegie Hall. The program includes the Schumann Piano Quintet with acclaimed pianist and colleague Yefim Bronfman.

Emerson String Quartet

The Quartet continues its series at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. for its 35th season, and, in May, performs in the two final season concerts at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall that includes the New York premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet No. 5, performed here tonight.

Tonight marks the Emerson String Quartet’s 14th appearance on our season.

The quartet has an unparalleled list of achievements: more than thirty acclaimed recordings, nine GRAMMYS® (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year.”

As an exclusive artist for SONY Classical, the Emerson recently released Journeys, its second CD on that label, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence and Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht. Future recordings are planned with Mr. Watkins.

The arrival of cellist Paul Watkins in 2013 has had a profound effect on the Emerson Quartet. Mr. Watkins, a former member of the Nash Ensemble and former Music Director of the English Chamber Orchestra, joined the ensemble in its 37th season, and his dedication and enthusiasm have infused the quartet with a warm, rich tone and a palpable joy in the collaborative process. The reconfigured group has been greeted with impressive accolades. “One of the characteristics of the Emerson Quartet is that its players (the violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer and the violist Lawrence Dutton, in addition, now, to Mr. Watkins) all have the ability and the instruments to produce a sweet and glossy sound — but do so sparingly. Instead, they establish a chromatic scale of timbres that range

Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson was one of the first quartets formed with two violinists alternating in the first chair position.

Violinist Eugene Drucker is also a writer and composer, who published his first novel, The Savior, in 2008 and who made his compositional debut in 2008 with a setting of four Shakespeare sonnets. He plays a Stradivarius violin (1686).

Violinist Phil Setzer’s parents were both violinists in the Cleveland Orchestra. He 2

Music Accord Partners include:

tours in a trio with former Emerson cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han. He plays a Zygmuntowicz violin (2011).

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Violist Larry Dutton is an avid skier who spends a week in Aspen each winter (and never, ever falls). He plays a Zygmuntowicz viola (2003).

Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State University Hancher Auditorium at University of Iowa

Cellist Paul Watkins, originally from Wales, moved to New York last year after 20 years in London. He appeared last season with the Colorado Symphony, playing the Elgar Concerto. His wife, Jennifer, is the daughter of FCM regular, violinist Jaime Laredo, and the late pianist Ruth Laredo. Paul plays a cello

by Montagnana and Gofriller (1730).

Celebrity Series of Boston Krannert Center Marquee Series at University of Illinois Library of Congress Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts San Francisco Performances Tanglewood Festival/Boston Symphony Orchestra

Music Accord

University Musical Society at the University of Michigan

Music Accord is a national consortium of classical music presenting organizations dedicated to the creation of new chamber music and to the presentation of these works in venues throughout the United States and internationally.

PROGRAM NOTES

Since its formation in 1997, Music Accord has commissioned more than twenty new works through its collaboration with composers including William Bolcom, Elliott Carter, Mario Davidovsky, David Del Tredici, Gabriela Lena Frank, Lukas Foss, Osvaldo Golijov, Steven Mackey, Augusta Read Thomas, Kevin Puts, Roberto Sierra, Bright Sheng, and performing artists and ensembles including Jeremy Denk, Stephanie Blythe, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Brentano Quartet, Chanticleer, Thomas Hampson, eighth blackbird, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Frederica von Stade, and the Tokyo String Quartet.

Purcell: Chacony in G minor Beloved British composer Henry Purcell (1659–1695) was born into a musical family. His father was a singer and choirmaster at Westminster Abbey and Henry sang as a boy soprano in the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace. After his voice broke, he began studying composition with organist John Blow while also taking a job caring for the king’s instruments.

Purcell soon succeeded his teacher as organist at the Abbey (and would be buried there, next to the organ, after his untimely death). In 1685, the ascension 3

of James II, a Catholic, curtailed the activities of the Anglican Chapel Royal, so Purcell turned from sacred to secular composition and composed music for use at court. But when William and Mary took the throne a few years later, musical life at court diminished. Ever adaptable, Purcell turned his focus to writing for the theater, penning his most famous stage piece, Dido and Aeneas, in 1688.

in the summer and fall of 1781, they were specifically designed to appeal. For the first time Haydn had been granted permission by his employer, Prince Esterhazy, to sell his own compositions on the open musical market and so reach for a wider audience outside of his rural post.

Haydn negotiated his own contracts with music publishers in Vienna, then the musical center of Europe. He advertised the new set of quartets to potential buyers as having been written “in an entirely new and special way.” But that wasn’t just good marketing copy. The Opus 33 quartets truly do differ from their predecessors, the densely contrapuntal quartets of Opus 20, in being lighter in texture and tone. That’s not to say that they are any less learned. In many subtle ways the quartets of Opus 33 are “music about music,” almost in a modernist sense of art about art (think of all-white paintings that challenge the very notion of painting itself ). Haydn gently tweaks some of the conventions of Classical forms and styles then still emerging. This unparalleled balance that he achieved between musical accessibility and compositional sophistication captivated the young Mozart, newly arrived in Vienna at the time the quartets appeared. Indeed, Haydn’s Opus 33 inspired Mozart to write his own set of six quartets—and dedicate them to Haydn.

The most famous number from that hour-long opera is “Dido’s Lament,” which actually follows the same general form as the Chacony in G minor: a set of variations unfold above unchanging, repeating harmonies. The Chacony was likely written sometime between 1677 and 1685 for use at court during the reign of Charles II. It would have been performed by the court violin orchestra, which Purcell directed, and probably accompanied a stately, formal dance.

Though Purcell was probably all of about 20 years old when he wrote the Chacony, it reveals complete mastery of the form and a sensitivity to dramatic pacing that would later find full flower in his stage works.

Tonight marks the first performance of this work on our series.

Haydn: String Quartet in G major, Op. 33, no. 5 The six quartets of Opus 33 are landmarks in Haydn’s output as well as in the history of the string quartet itself.

All bear the stamp of the composer’s mature style, including the humor of unexpected interruptions and silences, an easy banter among the instruments, and genial, rhythmic energy. Composed

The most obvious musical pun in Opus 33, no. 5 comes right at the beginning.

The quartet opens with a closing gesture, a kind of formal, gracious curtsey set to a rhythm that suggests the question, “How do you do?” That question has become a nickname for the quartet. The 4

following Largo, with its exquisite and impassioned opening melody, reveals just how accomplished an operatic composer Haydn was. Though probably best known for his sonatas, symphonies, and quartets, he also wrote over a dozen operas, most for private performances at the Esterhazy estate, and of course also penned the beloved oratorios The Creation and The Seasons for the public stage in London.

The Scherzo has the rustic charm of a heavy-heeled, hopping dance and ends, again in good humor, seemingly on the wrong foot, but recovers with a quick closing bow. The Finale is simple, gentle, and lovely—the very epitome of Haydn’s “new and special way.”

terrifying events of the kind with which we are all bombarded daily, in what seems more and more like a world gone mad.

The work’s mysterious opening, marked “Limpido” (“still”) introduces a number of motives that are heard and developed throughout the quartet. Structurally, the quartet is in one arc-like symmetrical movement consisting of two mostly slow sections flanking a fast section whose structure is, in and of itself, symmetrical.

If we think of that central fast section as being akin to a scherzo and trio, then the reprise of the scherzo section is actually an intervallic inversion of its first statement, while the trio section divides at its midpoint, the second half being a mirror image of the first half.

Tonight marks the first performance of this work on our series.

Tonight marks the first performance of this work on our series.

Liebermann: String Quartet No. 5, Op. 126

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73

Lowell Liebermann provided the following note about his new work:

String quartets are often heard as somehow more individual, more intimate—and so more personally revealing—than any other genre. Perhaps this is because they are so obviously conversational, and there is by necessity a certain familial rapport among the musicians themselves. Each instrument seems like a voice, and we want to know what is being said. In the case of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906– 1975), a composer who spent his entire career in the Soviet Union and who often wrote music in service of the state, exactly what he might be saying has long been debated. He was not, as is still sometimes suggested, a closet dissident, encoding political rebellion in his musical scores.

He wrote fifteen string quartets, but only composed his first in 1938, at age 31, with

The 5th String Quartet, Op.126 was commissioned by Music Accord for the Emerson String Quartet, to whom the work is dedicated. It is such an honor (and not an unintimidating one!) to write for an ensemble that has been, through their many recordings, such an iconic presence in my own musical development.

This quartet, like much of my instrumental music, has no extra-musical program. It is as absolute and abstract as music can be – yet, at the same time, I have no doubt that my mindset while composing the piece, and its resultant overriding elegiac tone, was at least partly influenced by any number of depressing/ 5

five symphonies already behind him. He had cut his teeth on other genres, so to speak, and turned to the quartet only in his compositional maturity. “After all, the quartet is one of the most difficult musical genres,” he confessed.

darker, more anxious music can’t obscure the sunny tune, and the movement ends quite happily. Other movements are more brooding and punctuated by real moments of wrenching crisis. When peace spreads across the final movement there is a sense of true rest—perhaps eternal.

At any rate, the Third Quartet (1946) seems to rise above its personal or political circumstances altogether to address more universal topics, namely the passage from innocence to experience and perhaps even beyond. It is symphonic in its emotional and musical scope. Contrasts abound: loud and soft, fast and slow, bowed and plucked. Everything is here, the whole world of music and of human experience. In fact, the Third Quartet is truly symphonic in the sense that it shares many qualities of Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. Both scores feature two scherzos, for example, and both recall music from one movement in another. In the Third Quartet, music from the fourth movement recurs in the fifth before the enigmatic conclusion.

Tempting as it may be to read these movements as some sort of allegory for its age, scholar Simon Morrison reminds us that music can really just be about music. His argument is that Shostakovich here suggests how the same material can be heard differently, how a change in perspective can bring about a new understanding. Hence the repetitions (two warlike scherzos, for example). The multiplicity of voices, the possibilities of interpretation, the varieties of understanding, and endless ways of knowing—that’s the often difficult truth of human experience as celebrated in the Third Quartet.

Last performed on our series: December 4, 2002 (St. Lawrence String Quartet).

The first movement has been heard as an echo of childhood, with its buoyant opening melody. Passing clouds of slightly

Program Notes © Elizabeth Bergman

Clarinet Master Class with David Shifrin - October 15th, 2014 From 10 a.m. - noon on Wednesday, October 15th, join us for a free master class with clarinetist David Shifrin. Shifrin will conduct a master class for Lamont School of Music clarinet students at Hamilton Recital Hall in the Newman Center. One of only two wind players to have been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize since the award’s inception in 1974,

Mr. Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber music collaborator. He has also served as the artistic director for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with whom he will be performing that evening on FCM’s Chamber Series. Visit our website at www.friendsofchambermusic. com for more information.

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Curious to Hear Denk on Ives?

January 19th, 2015, 6 p.m.

Ives Take Me Home. This event is offered in collaboration with Curious Theatre Company and attendees will have the opportunity to purchase discounted tickets to Charles Ives Take Me Home. Jeremy Denk will appear in concert on FCM’s Piano Series on Wednesday, January 21st. For more information, visit our website at www.friendsofchambermusic.com in the coming weeks.

Join us at Curious Theatre Company, 6 p.m. on Monday, January 19th, for an unforgettable evening with pianist Jeremy Denk as he talks about the world and works of American composer Charles Ives. One of the foremost interpreters of Ives’ piano music, Denk will speak about the composer and his influences with Christy Montour-Larson, director of Curious Theatre Company’s production of Charles

Don't miss our upcoming Piano Series Recitals $35 each/$10 students 25 and under Tickets available through our website, www.friendsofchambermusic.com, or contact the Newman Center Box Office, 303-871-7720, www.newmantix.com

Jeremy Denk

January 21, 2015 7:30 p.m.

Jonathan Biss May 6, 2015 7:30 p.m.

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Building New Audiences through Educational Outreach Friends of Chamber Music's education programs are an essential part of our mission.  FCM recently received this letter from Luke Wachter, the music teacher at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy, a K-12 public magnet school serving students in southwest Denver.

I try to ensure that my students are engaged not in just what I think is valuable, but also in what is actually happening in the musical community of the city. This means exposing them to working artists in the world of chamber music, and more importantly giving them the chance to work directly in making music with those professionals.

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SPECIAL EVENT - PRE-SALE INFORMATION Yo-Yo Ma, cello Wednesday, April 29, 2015 7:30 PM To hear Yo-Yo Ma in solo recital in an intimate setting is a once-in-a lifetime experience. FCM is excited to be able to offer this experience to Denver audiences this season.

FCM Chamber Series and Piano Series subscribers have an opportunity to purchase tickets to Yo-Yo Ma's cello recital at Gates Concert Hall, in advance of the general public, beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1st. Tickets to the general public go on sale on October 15th.

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Note: If you hold a combined Chamber/ Piano Series subscription, it counts as only one subscription.

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Reception Join us for a special post-concert reception with Mr. Ma to be held in the Great Hall at the Iliff School of Theology, directly across the street from the Newman Center.

A limited number of tickets are available for $150 to those holding tickets to the Yo-Yo Ma recital. All funds raised from this reception will support FCM’s educational outreach programs.

Special thanks to Robert and Judi Newman for sponsoring this reception.

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UPCOMING CONCERTS CHAMBER SERIES

PIANO SERIES

Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 7:30 PM

Jonathan Biss WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 7:30 PM

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 7:30 PM

Jeremy Denk WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 7:30 PM

Dover Quartet WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 7:30 PM

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Calder Quartet WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7:30 PM Les Violons du Roy with Marc-André Hamelin THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 7:30 PM Trio con Brio Copenhagen WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 7:30 PM

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Our anonymous donor for providing beautiful flowers for tonight’s performance

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