Join us March 4 at Bell Street Chapel as the CMW Fellows take on two string quartet standards by Maurice Ravel and Leos Janáček. One is lovely and one is lurid... but they’re both unforgettable.
Ravel was 28 years old when he finished his string quartet and submitted it for the Prix de Rome - it was rejected by those gatekeepers, but history knew better. It is now considered one of the greatest pieces ever written for this instrumentation, and a perfect illustration of its creator’s strengths - inventive, tantalizing, and classically beautiful.
Janáček’s second string quartet is the Dionysus to Ravel’s Apollo - an ecstatic, deeply troubling portrait of obsessive desire. The story encoded in its searing pages defies belief - you’ll have to show up to learn more.
Sunday, March 4 at 3pm | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell St, Providence, RI | $20 suggested donation
Join us for a post-concert community dinner!
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