Revolution and Independence
George Meyer and the Griffon String Quartet
Midsummer’s Music adds its voice to the start of our country’s Semiquincentennial (250th) Celebration. Violinist and composer George Meyer has created a special commemorative work for Midsummer audiences that will capture a sense of the time and its import. The work features George, as violin soloist, with The Griffon String Quartet. It will also include Heather Zinninger on flute and a narrator. The program begins with Mozart’s Flute Quartet, written nearly contemporaneously with the signing of the Declaration and will conclude with a string quartet by George Chadwick, one of the first distinctive American classical composers who helped create “the American” sound even before Dvorak.
Quartet in D Major, K. 285 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Allegro
Adagio
Rondeau
Special Commission Celebrating 1776 – George Meyer (b. 1992)
Solo Violin, Flute, and String Quartet
Intermission
Quartet No. 4 in E Minor (1895) – George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931)
String Quartet
Andante moderato; Allegro
Andantino semplice
Giocoso, un poco moderato
Finale: Allegro molto risoluto