Hosted Concert: Greetings and Salutations
Sat, Mar 23
|private home
Becenti, Britten, and Shaw
Time & Location
Mar 23, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
private home, Newton Centre, Newton, MA, USA
About the event
Our hosts have generously opened their home to additional guests. To request an invitation to this event, please email christina@sheffieldchamberplayers.org and let us know how you heard about us!
A musical dialogue among three unmistakable voices, Greetings and Salutations opens with Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint, 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.
PROGRAM
Blueprint | Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)
World Premiere string quartet commissioned by Sheffield Chamber Players | Juantio Becenti (b. 1983)
String Quartet No. 3 | Benjamin Britten (1913—1976)