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Acacia Presents Rhythm & Texture

Event

Acacia Presents Rhythm & Texture

  • Date: Sunday, 5 November 2017, 2.30pm
  • Venue: Macedon Music — Lowland Farm, 70 Brougham Road, Mount Macedon, VIC
  • Tickets: Adults: $50 | Students under 21: $30 Booking fees may apply — Tickets can be purchased online or by phone on (03) 5426 2414

Event Details

In the breathtaking contemporary architecture and rural setting that is the Macedon Ranges, Acacia Quartet continues its championship of Australian composers with the world premiere season of a new quartet movement, with a title drawn from Mahler, from Acacia's long-time collaborator, Lyle Chan.

It’s about rhythms & textures in this string quartet program by Acacia Quartet. The concert starts with Osvaldo Golijov’s ‘Tenebrae’, featuring pulsating, vibrating and aerial textures under haunting melodies. Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.7 is dedicated to his first wife, written in 1960, five years after her death. Although short, the quartet shows all the drama of Shostakovich’s work – nervous energy and rapid pulses next to hypnotic lyrical passages. Javier Alvarez’s ‘Metro Chabacano’, a dedication to one of Mexico City’s subway stations, is characterized by a continuous eighth-note movement with short melodic solos for all instruments. In 1903 Maurice Ravel hoped to win the prestigious Rome Prize and impress his teacher Gabriel Fauré with his String Quartet in F – neither prize win nor teacher praise was the result. It features many rhythms & textures, unusual at the time.

Featured non-Australian music: Golijov, Shostakovich, Alvarez, Ravel

Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by email to acaciaquartet@gmail.com

Featured Australian Works

Andante moderato : from String Quartet (2017) by Lyle Chan
— performed by Acacia Quartet

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