Friday, Aug 1, 2025 at 7:30pm
UAA Recital Hall: Made in America
America shows off its musical talents! Listen for “the old ragtime stuff” and a whole bunch of American tunes in Charles Ives’s barnyard second violin sonata. Leonard Bernstein soars with a song from his musical Peter Pan, and David Diamond lifts American spirits during the darkest days of the Second World War. Award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery’s work for string quartet, Strum, is our new music feature of the season. The program concludes with Barber’s poignant string quartet (including his famous Adagio) reimagined in a setting for string orchestra.
PROGRAM
Leonard BERNSTEIN: “Dream With Me”
Charles IVES: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
David DIAMOND: Rounds for String Orchestra
Sergei PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34
Jessie MONTGOMERY: Strum
Samuel BARBER: String Quartet
ARTISTS
Chad Burrow (clarinet)
Amy I-Lin Cheng and David Fung (piano)
John Bian, Elizabeth Dickenson, Minju Kim, Luri Lee, Christine Harada Li and Rita Wang (violin)
Edwin Kaplan and Hezekiah Leung (viola)
Nathan Chan, Pierre Derycz and Nathaniel Pierce (cello)
Paul Sharpe (bass)
Nathaniel Pierce (tenor)
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