Australian String Quartet Performs "Journeys"
Beethoven once said that "Art demands of us that we not stand still" and with the Australian String Quartet’s (ASQ) third national tour of 2008 the Quartet responds by travelling from classical Germany to post-war Australia with works that evoke the exhilaration of movement and anticipated discovery.
Performing in Sydney on Monday 28 July, at the City Recital Hall Angel Place, audiences are invited to Journey with the ASQ through Haydn's exuberant Fifths Quartet, renowned Australian composer Miriam Hyde’s string quartet, and Beethoven's extraordinary opus 131.
As part of the ASQ’s ongoing commitment to supporting Australian music and audiences, one Australian composition is included in each of its programs- this tour showcases Miriam Hyde’s String Quartet in e minor. As a young composer Miriam declined a traditional path and instead travelled far from home and family to pursue her musical destiny. Here the ASQ visit her quartet from 1947 for the first time.
“The composers were at transitional times of their lives when they composed these pieces and we think a lot of that is reflected in the way you feel when you hear them. It is music with a truly absorbing empathic narrative, for musicians and audiences alike,” said ASQ cellist Rachel Johnston.
Monday 28 July 2008, 7pm
$61/$47 concession/$20 student (service fees may apply)
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