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7:30 PM TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018
MARTIN THEATRE
CHANTICLEER
TIM KEELER, CORTEZ MITCHELL, GERROD PAGENKOPF,
ALAN REINHARDT, LOGAN SHIELDS, ADAM WARD,
countertenors
BRIAN HINMAN, MATTHEW MAZZOLA, ANDREW VAN ALLSBURG,
tenors
ERIC ALATORRE, ZACHARY BURGESS, MATTHEW KNICKMAN,
baritones and basses
WILLIAM FRED SCOTT,
music director
.
PALESTRINA
Gaude gloriosa
LASSUS
Surrexit pastor bonus
*
GIBBONS
O Clap Your Hands
*
.
BYRD
Ave verum corpus
*
STUC.<
Whispers
.
ALLEN SHEARER
Nude Descending a Staircase
*
MORLEY
(arr. Price)
Now Is the Month of Maying
MASON BATES
“Stelle, vostra mercè l’eccelse sfere” from
Sirens
ARCADELT
Il bianco e dolce cigno
*
WILLIAM HAWLEY
Io son la Primavera
from Six Madrigals
*
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STRAUSS
Drei Männerchöre
*
Vor den Türen
Traumlicht
Fröhlich im Maien
.
SALAZAR
Salve Regina
*
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STEVEN SAMETZ
I Have Had Singing
*
GERSHWIN
(arr. Shaw)
“Summertime” from
Porgy and Bess
Cortez Mitchell
MICHAEL MCGLYNN, arr.
“Dúlamán”
*
Matthew Knickman; Zachary Burgess
JAC.SON HILL
In Winter’s Keeping
*
STACY GARROP, arr.
“Járbă, máré járbă”
*
Andrew Van Allsburg
.
ELLINGTON
(arr. Frommermann)
“Creole Love Call”
SECUNDA
(arr. Hinman)
“Bei mir bist du schön”
*
PAR.ERSHA: arrs.
“I Want to Die Easy”
*
Matthew Mazzola
ALE;ANDER
:HITA.ER“Straight Street”
*
(arr. Jennings)
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First performance at Ravinia
TA.CS STRING QUARTET
Formed in
by four students at the Franz
Liszt Academy in Budapest, the Takács String
Quartet quickly established itself as a leading
ensemble by earning both rst prize and the
Critics’ Prize at the
International String
Quartet Competition in Evian, France, and top
prizes at the Portsmouth, Bordeaux, and Buda-
pest International String Quartet Competitions
in
, as well as the Bratislava Competition
in
. e quartet has recorded albums on
the Decca label since
, including the
Gramophone
Award–winning collection of
Bartók’s complete quartets.
ey also record-
ed Beethoven’s quartets on the label—earning
awards from the Grammys,
Gramophone
,
BBC
Music Magazine
, and the Japanese Record-
ing Academy—as well as works by Borodin,
Brahms, Chausson, Dvořák, Haydn, Mozart,
Schubert, and Smetana with such guest artists
as violinist Joshua Bell, violist Gyorgy Pauk, and
pianists Andreas Hae iger, Andrés Schi , and
Jean-Yves
ibaudet. Since
the ensemble
has also made many well-received recordings on
the Hyperion label, including piano quintets by
Brahms with Stephen Hough and by Shostakov-
ich, Schumann, and Franck with Marc-André
Hamelin; string quintets by Brahms and Dvořák
with violist Lawrence Power; Schubert’s string
quintet with Ralph Kirshbaum; and quartets
by Brahms, Britten, Haydn, Janáček, Smetana,
and Debussy. Forthcoming are an all-Dohnányi
disc with Hamelin as well as a tour and record-
ing of piano quintets by Elgar and Amy Beach
with Garrick Ohlsson.
e Takács Quartet has
been in residence at the University of Colora-
do–Boulder for over years, and the ensemble
also has educational residencies at the Aspen
Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Lon-
don’s Guildhall School of Music. As Associate
Artists of London’s Wigmore Hall, the quartet
holds an annual concert series at the venue. In
Gramophone
named the ensemble the rst
string quartet to be inducted into its Hall of
Fame. Tonight the Takács String Quartet returns
for its seventh season at Ravinia, where it rst
appeared in
, and welcomes as its new sec-
ond violinist Harumi Rhodes, who was a substi-
tute with the quartet at Ravinia in
.
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