Podcasts about miro quartet

Conspirare – Miró Quartet/Craig Hella Johnson – House of Belonging (Delos) New Classical Tracks - Craig Hella Johnson by “It's exciting, isn't it? It's hard to believe,” says Craig Hella Johnson, the artistic director of Conspirare. “I don't know how to understand the passage of time like this because it feels like we just got started.”The vocal ensemble Conspirare was started 30 years ago in Austin, Texas, by Johnson, who was inspired by the power of music to change lives. Their anniversary celebration is underway with the release of their latest recording, House of Belonging, which features a long-awaited collaboration with the Miró Quartet.“I spoke about collaborations early on and how we can partner with musical friends, both just for the sheer joy of it and also to really learn. It's how we keep a knife-sharp edge in terms of our own creativity. “The Miró Quartet, they're just stupendous players themselves, and they come together and create this astounding magic.”Can you explain the title, House of Belonging, and the music that lives within it?“I thought, ‘What music do we need to hear at this time? What am I sensing in our audiences, the people? What are they going through in their lives? What's meant to be expressed from Conspirare at this time?' So, I chose these pieces, and it was quite an eclectic bunch initially. And I thought, ‘Oh, well, I don't see the thread yet.' And then suddenly it just appeared to me. It felt like what I observe culturally, just so many elements that aren't feeling a deep sense of belonging.“David White has a wonderful poem called The House of Belonging. I decided to borrow that as a working title. And then in the process, which was kind of quick, I got in touch with Alex Berko and asked if he would consider creating an anchor piece, a multimovement work.“He created a beautiful work called Sacred Place, and that's at the heart of this CD. He used a Jewish service as a model for the piece, as well as texts from a lot of different places. Wendell Berry is in the first movement. Then there's John Muir in a letter that he wrote to Teddy Roosevelt about preserving Yosemite.”You've said commissioning new works is important as part of the mission of Conspirare, and the recording opens with one of your pieces, Reaching.“For our Christmas concerts, we always sing in Austin and often in Houston. But in December 2022, we made a decision to reach out to the people in Uvalde, Texas, where that horrible school shooting took place in May 2022, to ask if they thought it would be helpful if we brought the concert on the road to Uvalde.“The whole team wanted to do this so deeply. The piece you're referencing is called Reaching, and it is the first track on this CD, just because it speaks to the yearning, the first lines of, ‘We are far away from home. We were turning away, oh, my unknown home. I love you. I'll never return.' It just spoke to that sense of separation in a simple way.“ Listen on YouTubeTo hear the rest of my conversation, click on the extended interview above, or download the extended podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.ResourcesConspirare – Miró Quartet/Craig Hella Johnson – House of Belonging (Amazon)Conspirare – Miró Quartet/Craig Hella Johnson – House of Belonging (Delos)Conspirare (official site)Miró Quartet (official site)Craig Hella Johnson (official site)

The co-founders of 9th Street Chamber Music Liz O'Hara Stahr and  Matt Richardson joined us on the show today to talk about the many exciting events coming in February, including a Feb. 18th 9th Street Quartet concert, a Feb. 19th master class for their students with the Miro Quartet and the Youth Quartet free public concert on Feb. 23rd. Also find out how they had to adapt their teaching methods for virtual learning, how to audition to be a youth musician and how they figure out the pairing of the quartet members.

The third episode of the Counterpoint Club is all about intonation. Sarah guides a history lesson through different tuning systems used in all kinds of music. In the technique lesson, Brandon discusses tuning exercises that the Skyros Quartet uses in rehearsal, and how you might use them in your rehearsals. Our special guest is John Largess, violist of the Miro Quartet and Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music.Support the show (http://www.chambermusicguild.org/thecounterpointclub/donate/)

The Miró Quartet, who visited Portland in February hosted by Chamber Music NW, are celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth with the release of the complete string quartets. They began around 2005 with the Opus 18 (Beethoven’s first published set), recording them at the same age the composer was when he wrote them, in other words their late twenties. While they realized it might not be practical to wait until they were in their 50s and 60s to finish the Opus 135, violinist Daniel Ching and violist John Largess do share the story of how they went about recording the complete set, as well as shedding light on America’s early encounters with the string quartet repertoire through several trailblazing groups of the early 20th century.

Joshua Gindele and John Largess, cellist and violist respectively of the Miro Quartet, chat with WQED-FM’s Jim Cunningham about what it’s like to spend 15 years recording the complete Beethoven string quartets. The full 8-CD boxset, recorded on the Pentatone label, is titled “Beethoven – Complete String Quartets.” A culmination of 15 years of work, the set has been released just in time for Beethoven’s 250th birthday and the 25th anniversary of the Miro Quartet itself. Joshua Gindele has a special relationship to Pittsburgh, having grown up here and played with the Youth Symphony Orchestra.

The Miro Quartet opens the Chamber Music Society of Detroit’s 2019/20 at the Seligman Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 14 at 8pm. They joined us in our studios today to play Beethoven and Kevin Puts and spoke with Midday Music Host Peter Whorf.

The Miro Quartet opens the Chamber Music Society of Detroit’s 2019/20 at the Seligman Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 14 at 8pm. They joined us in our studios today to play Beethoven and Kevin Puts and spoke with Midday Music Host Peter Whorf.

Incredible doesn't even begin to describe this concert!

Renowned conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane joins forces with Austin's Miró Quartet to perform Dvořák’s "Piano Quintet in A Major" after the Quartet tackles Dvořák’s "Cypresses and Schumann’s Quartet in A Minor" on their own.

Life isn't always puppies and kittens (she stated sagely). Sometimes, it can be downright tough - maybe your family is falling apart and you're a famous composer and you're going deaf. We've all been there, amiright? In this episode, John Largess and Joshua Gindele, members of the Miro Quartet, talk about Beethoven's Opus 131 string quartet and that it's one example of how composers use the string quartet to tell their own stories. They also talk about what was going on in Beethoven's life that he may have been working out in this piece. Music in this episode: Special Thanks to Todd Reynolds for his music, Taskforce: Farmlab from Outerbourough.  

Classical Classroom is finally coming back. Dacia Clay will be asking even more, even dumber questions about classical music to really smart people like Joshua Bell, Sharon Isbin, Hillary Hahn, Miro Quartet, Jono Hill, Anne Akiko Meyers, and many, many more. 

The city flower of Yueyuang City in China's Hunan Province is the gardenia. In creating his Gardenia for String Quartet & Pipa, composer Xiaogang Ye adapted folk songs and operas from the region to convey a sense of loss, and his longing for the beautiful scenery of Southern China. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 33139]

The city flower of Yueyuang City in China's Hunan Province is the gardenia. In creating his Gardenia for String Quartet & Pipa, composer Xiaogang Ye adapted folk songs and operas from the region to convey a sense of loss, and his longing for the beautiful scenery of Southern China. Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 33139]