TWENTY -SEVENTH SEASON FIFTH CONCERT

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Andrew Dawes - violin Kenneth Perkins- violin Robert Levine - viola - cello

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1987 Hamman Hall 8:00P.M. Rice University PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1987

String Quartet Op. 18, No.1, F Major...... •.. (1770-1827) Allegro con brio Adagio affetuoso ed appassionato Scherzo: All~gro molto Allegro

String Quartet No.3, 1927 ...... Bela Bartok ~ ((1881-1945) (Prima parte) - Moderato (Secondo parte) - Allegro (Recapitulazione della prima parte) - Moderato (Coda)- Allegro molto

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Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 "American" ...... • Antonio Dvorak (1841-1904) A 1/egro ma non troppo Lento Molto vivace (Finale) Vivace ma non troppo

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2 HOUSTON FRIENDS OF MUSIC is a non-profit organization dedicated to the presentation of chamber ensembles witb national and international reputations and to tbe development of new audiences. BENEFACfORS Dr. Edith F. Bondi Dennis & Susan Carlyle Cultural Arts Cooncil of Houston Dr. & Mrs. Grady L. Hallman National Endowment for Dr. Meyer L. Proler S. C. Wexler the Arts PATRONS Vlasta & Ervin Adam Lutz & Mariel Birnbaumer Mr. & Mrs. Emory T. Carl Kent & Jan Coleman Denton A. Cooley Foundation Carter & Audrey Crawford Alex & Ann Goldstein Gary L. Hollingsworth Howard & Vicki Huddleston Barbara Kauffman Marcella & Tomas Klima Dr. J.P. Lauzon Thomas & Frances Leland W. H. Mannheimer Jack & Julia Mazow Dr. & Mrs. A. A. Mintz H. Irving Schweppe, Jr., M.D. Mr. & Mrs. A. 0. Susholtz Margaret Waisman Robert & Edith Zinn SPONSORS James & Carolyn Alexander Drs. Chester & Jamie Cochran Ann Fairbanks Doris M. Curtis Exxon Education Foundation Dr. Fred Haufrect Lila-Gene George Harvey & Sandra Gordon Chris & Dan Krohn Constance Holford H. Blandin Jones Barbara M. Osborne Louise Levien & Bob Eby Daniel & Karol Musher Richard & Eva Rosencranz Mario & Ruth Paglia Walter Pye, Jr. Robert & Natalse Thrall Malcolm & Horty Sher Steven J. Tillinger J. Macheledt & Arlo Weltge Ron & Margrit Young CONTRIBUTORS Ralph A. Anderson Francisco Aviles-Roig, M.D. J.H.N. Brown Barbara & Jim Butler Mr. & Mrs. Albert Caselli David & Margaret Colvig John W. Eagleton Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Eisner Lloyd E. Elliott, Jr. Stephen M. Fierros Arthur Ginzbarg Harlan Hall M.A. Modelski Stephanie Norman Joseph Paderewski Marilyn Pollack Mr. & Mrs. Nathan M. Pryzant Ann & Hermann Rath Elizabeth G. Reynolds Doug & Marsha Tsuchida Irving & Ida Wadler Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Weitzner Lawrence & Alice Cowles BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ervin Adam ArthurS. Ginzbarg Jack B. Mazow James Alexander Harvey L. Gordon Daniel Mosher Francisco Aviles Michael Hammond David G. Parsons Ira J. Black Constance Holford Mary Schoettle Kent Coleman Barbara Kauffman Steven J. Tillinger Carter Crawford Tomas Klima Marsha Tsuchida Edward 0. Doughtie Daniel Krohn Irving Wadler Elmer Eisner Thomas Littman Margaret Waisman Ann Fairbanks Walter Mannheimer Seymour Wexler FRIENDS OF MUSIC OFFICERS President ...... Jack B. Mazow Vice Presidents ...... Ann Fairbanks, Barbara Kauffman, Tomas Klima, Daniel Krohn Secretary ...... Margaret Waisman Treasurer ...... Ervin Adam 3 THE ORFORD STRING QUARTET

Often referred to as "'s finest," the Orford String Quartet finished its 1985-1986 season by winning the "Juno .f A~ard," ~anada's Grammy, for best album in solo or chamber ,category for its Mozart Double Album (CBC SM 5040). The Quartet was also awarded the Canadian Music Council's prestigious "Ensemble of the Year Award" in recognition of twenty years of concert giving, recording, and the commissioning and performance of Canadian composi­ tions. 1986-1987 is even busier with an exceptionally full con­ cert schedule in Canada and the U.S., as well as increasing recording committments. This fall will see the fruition of a two-year recording project, the complete cycle of Beethoven Quartets. The Quartet will aso record the Mozart and Weber Clarinet Quintets with James Campbell, in addition to continu­ ing the recording of the ten famous Mozart quartets. The Orford String Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence at the , where the artists are associate professors at the Faculty of Music.

PROGRAM NOTES

Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 (befo~ 1180) •••••• Ludwig van Beethoven It had been Beethoven's intention in coming to Vienna to study with Mozart but he had died the previous year, 1791; so Beethoven put himself with Haydn and Albrechtsberger, the latter teaching him counterpoint three times a week. Although a recognized performer, he was not immediately hailed as a composer. He had to put up with the fact that his older admirers belonged to that school which felt that Handel, Mozart and Haydn had said the very last word in music and that no one could ever again reach such exalted plains. The six quartets of Op. 18, dedicated to the Prince Lobkowitz, were composed between 1798 and 1800 but not in the order of their numberings. No. 1 in F Major was the second in order of composition but was placed first at the suggestion of the violinist Schuppanzigh for purely artistic reasons. Allegro con brio: It is quite clear why Schuppanzigh wanted this

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quartet to appear first: the enormous power of the first movement that is generated by the very opening motif, with its strong outlines, both melodically and rhythmically, so easily impressed on the memory and which takes precedence over all other material. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato: During his early years in Vienna, Beethoven found one of his very closest friends in Karl Friedrich Amenda, a theological student and an excellent amateur violinist. Beethoven played this movement to Amenda and asked him what thoughts had been awaken­ ed by it. Amenda replied that it pictured the parting of two lovers. "Good," said Beethoven, "I thought of the scene in the burial vault in Romeo and Juliet.,, Scherzo: Allegro molto: It was in Haydn's Op. 33 that we find the term scherzo used in place of the minuet, and certainly in these quartets and in Beethoven's early works, the scherzo is a speeded-up minuet, its rhythmic characteristics exaggerated and filled with unexpected things like odd changes of key and inexplicable silences. Allegro: The humor of the scherzo is carried over into this, a sonata­ rondo, a form developed by Haydn. Sonata-rondo combin'es the rondo, with its system of "closed" melodies, with the intellectual scope of the sonata principle, thus permitting more extended treatment of the ideas. From notes by Godfrey Ridout

String Quartet No.3 (1927) •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Bela Bartok Written in 1927, Bartok's third quartet shared, with Casella, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Prize. Of the six quartets, this is his most rigidly concentrated. It is actually a single movement with four sections, forming a perfectly integrated whole, gravitating around the tonal centre of C sharp. The writing of the Third Quartet is filled with exotic sounds ranging from ethereal to barbaric. Employing those new and audacious effects of r sonority (glissandi, collegno, sui ponticello and harmonics) Bartok creates an enormous psychological tension already stretched to breaking-point by the harshness of the tonal writing, which is largely based on major and minor seconds and on augmented fourths.

Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, "American" No. 12 (1893) •••• Antonio Dvorak Antonin Dvorak, together with Smetana, created the modern and con­ sciously national school of Czech music, and was one of the most gifted and original composers of the nineteenth century.

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At the hei_gbt of his musical renown, after a number of his most impor­ tant works had found their way to the U.S., he accepted an invitation to become Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. In the three years he spent in America, beginning in 1892, he met with a splendid reception and remarkable enthusiasm. He was greatly appreciated as a teacher, conductor of his own works, and of course, as a composer. After months of experiencing the chaos .of metropolitan life, he would spend his summer vacations experiencing the simple, intimate life of the far­ away Czech colony in Spillvill~, Iowa, surrounded by his compatriots. Here, in 1893, he fashioned the charming quartet Op. 96, now known as the "American" in just thre~ days. Much of the work is touched in places with painful yearning, perhaps for his homeland, yet with a smiling, idyllic senti­ ment prevailing throughout. A twilight calm colors the opening two bars, and the energetic main theme is announced by the viola and happily developed in the rippling first movement, with contrasting moments of quiet dreaminess. The deeply felt second movement, a Iento, consists of a lengthy song for violin and then cello, leading with a sense of yearning in the beautiful extended middle section. It is a genuine pearl among Dvorak's lyrical movements. The ingenipus third movement, aptly entitled Allegro vivace consi~ts entirely of delightful miniature variations on a single theme. The · finale 'is a very gay rondo. The cheerful style of the movement is exemplified in the leading theme (one_in which some detect American Indian character) which runs persistently through the music. In the middle of the movement, there appears a short imitation of a chorale in a hushed manner as might be improvised softly on the org~, probably a reminiscence of the church at Spillville, when Dvorak would play the organ for Mass.

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