Hosted Concert: Greetings and Salutations

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A musical dialogue among three unmistakable voices, opens with Caroline Shaw’s , whose title is drawn from a Japanese wood-block art typically using precious “Prussian Blue” ink. Shaw describes this piece, and chamber music itself, as a “conversation without words”. Here, she converses with Diné-Navajo composer Juantio Becenti and 20th century great Benjamin Britten. For our third commission, Juantio Becenti is writing a quartet for Sheffield in which different musical styles will talk with one another; and Britten’s final major work, his 3rd Quartet, is his simultaneous greeting and farewell to the beauties and mysteries of life.Greetings and SalutationsBlueprint

PROGRAM

| Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)Blueprint

World Premiere string quartet commissioned by Sheffield Chamber Players | Juantio Becenti (b. 1983)

String Quartet No.…