Orion String Quartet with David Krakauer, clarinetist September 23, 2008

Schwab Auditorium

Clarinetist David Krakauer, a classical player and specialist in klezmer music, joins the Orion String Quartet, an American ensemble known for its cutting-edge programming, to perform Magyar Madness, a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer David Del Tredici co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts. “Any doubts that romanticism still stirs in the modern composer’s breast were put to rest … when the Orion Quartet and clarinetist David Krakauer turned in a performance of David Del Tredici’s Magyar Madness that nearly outdid Schubert in lush, sweeping expressiveness,” writes a Washington Post critic. “It’s a tour de force that explores every color of the clarinet and then some.” The program also features the five musicians performing K’vakarat by Osvaldo Golijov, a contemporary composer raised in an eastern European Jewish neighborhood of La Plata, Argentina, The quartet—siblings Daniel and Todd Phillips, who share first violist duties; Steven Tenenbom, violinist; and cellist Timothy Eddy—also performs works by Hugo Wolf and Beethoven.

Hugo Wolf (Austrian): Italian Serenade
David Del Tredici (American): Magyar Madness
Osvaldo Golijov (Argentinean): K’vakarat
Ludwig van Beethoven (German): Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2

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