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Verona Quartet @ Chelsea Music Festival

  • Aperture Foundation 547 West 27th Street, 4th Flr New York, NY, 10001 (map)

An evening that explores the meaning of home through music, visual art and dialogue. Works by Anton Webern, György Ligeti, and Antonin Dvorak with featured artists, the Verona Quartet, and Festival musicians.  

On view: Aperture exhibit, Streetwise Revisited, photographs by Mary Ellen Mark, and Festival exhibit, Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom by 2016 Visual Artist-in-Residence Lukas Birk.

Festival Talk: There's No Place Like Home 6:30 - 7:15 PM
Performance: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Reception: 9:00 - 9:30 PM

Festival Talk: There's No Place Like Home
Join us for the Chelsea Music Festival’s first 2016 Festival Talks, a panel discussion on the meaning and perception of home hosted by Artistic Directors Melinda Lee and Ken-David Masur. Panelists include Columbia University Physics Professor Imre Bartos, double bassist and Artist-in-Residence Dominik Wagner, clarinetist Vera KarnerComposer-in-Residence Michael Gandolfi, and Visual Artist-in-Residence Lukas Birk.  

**All attendees will receive 20% discount on any June 13 purchases at the Aperture bookstore

PROGRAM

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) Tierkreis (1974-5)

György Ligeti (1923–2006) String Quartet No. 1 (Métamorphoses nocturnes) (1953) 

Anton Webern (1883-1945) Six Bagatelles for string quartet, Op. 9 (1913) 

Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904) String Quintet No. 2, Op. 77 (1875) 
                                                                                      

Performers Include:

Violin | Fanny Clamagirand, Jonathan Ong, Dorothy Ro, Lisa Lee
Viola | Abigail Rojansky, Jesus Rodolfo Rodriguez
Cello | Angela Lee, Warren Hagerty
Bass | Dominik Wagner
Percussion | Frédérick Lombart