Ruth Crawford Seeger composed Suite for Wind Quintet in 1952, 16 years since writing any significant compositions and a year before she died from cancer. Principal Cello Julie Albers takes the spotlight in Franz Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D, the second of two cello concertos composed twenty years apart. Written in dedication to and in competition with his close friend Mieczysław Weinberg, Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10 will be performed in an arrangement for Chamber Symphony.
Details:
Ruth Crawford Seeger Suite for Wind Quintet
Alicia McQuerrey, flute Barbara Bishop, oboe Sang Yoon Kim, clarinet Andrew Brady, bassoon James Ferree, horn
Franz Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2
Julie Albers, cello
Intermission
Dmitri Shostakovich Chamber Symphony (after String Quartet No. 10, Opus 118) (arr. by Barshai)