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Beecher and Dvorák
Juilliard String Quartet
Date
Mon 14 Jan 2019, 1.00pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Artists

  • Juilliard String Quartet

    Programme

    • Lembit Beecher
      b. 1980
        • One Hundred Years Grows Shorter Over Time
          (European première)

    Encore

    • Joseph Haydn
      1732-1809
        • String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 82
          :
        • II. Menuet. Presto & Trio 82

    Overview

    Founded in 1946 at New York’sJuilliard School, the eponymousquartet’s personnel hasnecessarily seen changes whileits artistic aims have remainedconstant. Here it matches Dvorák’sUS-inspired work with a newpiece by the admired Estonian-American, Lembit Beecher.

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