Ives Quartet - Press Release

THE IVES STRING QUARTET
2002- 2003 Home Season Fall Series
features “Selected Shorts” for String Quartet

Franz Schubert - Quartetstaz
Giacomo Puccini - Crisatemi
Antonin Dvorak - Cypresses
Arthur Foote - Themes and Variations from Quartet #2
Charles Ives - Scherzo
Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz
William Kroll - Character Pieces

Nov. 9, Sat. (California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco) 2pm.
Nov. 10, Sun. (San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose) 2pm.

Palo Alto, CA - The Ives String Quartet has announced its Fall Series of the 2002-2003 Home Concert Season featuring a program the quartet has called, “Selected Shorts”. Performances are Saturday, November 9, 2pm at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Theatre, Lincoln Park, San Francisco and Sunday November 10, 2pm at the San Jose Museum of Art, Wendell Education center, 110 S. Market St., San Jose.

The concert includes Franz Schubert’s Quartetstaz, the only piece on the program that was originally intended to be part of a larger work; Giacomo Puccini’s Crisantemi, from 1890, has gently mourning music that he would later use in Manon Lescaut; Antonin Dvorak’s Cypresses, inspired by an early love for a singer, were written as songs and later arranged for string quartet; Arthur Foote’s Theme and Variations was so popular that is was published in 1903 separately from the composers Second Quartet where it originally appeared; Charles Ives’ Scherzo is a spoof that explores rhythmic

experiments as it incorporates bits of popular tunes; Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz, the longest movement ever written by Webern and dates to 1905 before his turn to atonality and finally William Kroll’s, Characters Pieces, rarely performed gems that are full of charm, imagination and a light spirit.

The Ives Quartet has attracted international acclaim from New York to San Francisco, Taiwan to London. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the ensemble has appeared most recently at the Festival of Chamber Music in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. It has also performed at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Princeton University, the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles, St. John’s Smith Square in London and at the Sedona Chamber Music Festival. The Quartet has fashioned a sound highly praised for its unity, versalitility and supple beauty. Violinists Robin Sharp and Susan Freier, Scott Woolweaver, viola and Stephen Harrison, cello are members of the ensemble.

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ATTENTION CALENDAR LISTINGS:
THE IVES QUARTET
Features “Selected Shorts” for String Quartet

DATE:
Saturday, November 9, 2002, 2:00pm
LOCATION:
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Theatre, San Francisco
TICKETS:
$20 general, $10 students
Tickets and info: (415) 392-4400

DATE:
Sunday, November 10, 2002, 2:00pm
LOCATION:
San Jose Museum of Art, Wendell Education Center, 110 S. Market St., San Jose
TICKETS:
$20 general, $10 students
Tickets and info: (415) 392-4400