The Juilliard String Quartet Will Present the Boston Premiere of Gunther
Schuller's String Quartet No. 4 at Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory
as Part of the Fleet Boston Celebrity Series on Saturday, November 9,
2002 at 8:00 PM
Program also to include
Mozart String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 10, No. 3, K. 458, the "Hunt"
and Beethoven String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135, No. 16
On Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. the Juilliard
String Quartet will present a program showcasing its time-honored command
of the great masterworks in Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major, Op.
135 No. 16 and Mozart's String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 10 No. 2,
K. 458, the "Hunt". The Quartet's continuing commitment to the
presentation of new works is another highlight of this program with the
Boston premiere of the String Quartet No. 4 by American composer Gunther
Schuller.
Gunther Schuller's presence in American music is legendary and his work prolific. Mr. Schuller played horn with both the Cincinnati Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He was active in the New York City bebop scene performing and recording with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. He has held prestigious posts at some of America's premiere music schools, including Professor of Composition at the Yale School of Music and President of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Among a dazzling list of awards, Mr. Schuller is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal for Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and ten honorary degrees. As Alan Rich noted in New York Magazine, "Scholar, composer, conductor, teacher, author, music publisher, indefatigable advocate - Gunther Schuller isn't merely a musician, he's a monopoly."
A resident teaching and performing ensemble at The Juilliard School for over fifty years, the Juilliard String Quartet has established, and maintains a reputation as one of the world's greatest chamber ensembles. Consisting of first violinist, Joel Smirnoff, second violinist Ronald Copes, violist Samuel Rhodes and cellist Joel Krosnick, the Quartet has performed throughout the world in recitals, at music festivals and with major symphony orchestras as concerto quartet-soloist. Allan Kozinn of the New York Times said of their Alice Tully Hall performance this past Spring, "the quartet was in superb form . . . a composer could hardly have wanted a more polished or electrifying performance . . . the Juilliard players made the music sound as intricately assembled as a watch mechanism, yet never mechanical or predictable."
The 2002-2003 season will take the Quartet to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Japan and the Far East and throughout the United States. The season also includes a twelve-concert series at the Library of Congress where this season will mark the 40th anniversary of the Quartet's celebrated residency. The Juilliard Quartet has developed a passionate following at the Library of Congress for its time-honored performances of both classics and new American compositions, some of which are commissioned particularly for the Library. Another feature of the residency is that the Juilliard String Quartet plays on a matched set of Stradivarius instruments donated to the Library of Congress. This anniversary season will be marked not only by concerts but by lectures, round table discussions, and master classes with gifted students from area educational institutions.
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