Groupmuse Night Out

Aspect Presents: Brentano Quartet | Haydn's String Quartet

Bohemian National Hall

Thu, April 27, 2023 7:30 PM, EDT
(Ticket sales closed Apr 27, 7:00 AM EDT)

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Capacity: 1 of 30 tickets still available
: COVID vaccine not required
: COVID testing not required
: This is an indoor event
: Masks are not required
: If you feel sick, stay home
: Don't bring your own drinks
: Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided
Wheelchair access: Wheelchair Accessible

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Our friends at Aspect Chamber Music Society welcome Groupmuse community members for yet another fantastic evening of programming. This program, entitled Seven Last Words will feature the Brentano Quartet, performing Franz Joseph Haydn's famous Seven Last Words, Op. 51. As is customary for Aspect performances, the music will be accompanied by an illustrated talk, this time featuring poetry by Ruth Padel. Tickets for this program typically sell for upwards of $60, but we've got them for only $20 (and $15 for Supermusers).

Here's what Aspect has to say about the program:

*On Good Friday 1787, in the great Baroque cathedral of Cádiz, music by Joseph Haydn was performed during ten-minute intervals between the bishop’s meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. These Last Words refer to seven short utterances made by the dying Christ, taken from the Gospel stories of the Crucifixion, and Haydn wrote his music as a personal response to each of them.

In this concert, we present interspersed between Haydn’s movements not sermons, but poems, written and read by Ruth Padel in tribute to the interrelations, and tensions, created by the composer between word and music.

Each poem ends with the Word to which the ensuing music then responds. This first New York performance of Padel’s haunting poems offers a uniquely tangible and contemporary vision of a historic scene, as a world-renowned string quartet and a multi-award-winning poet take us on an emotional journey which begins by attending to the needs of others – Forgiveness, Comfort and Relationship – and progresses through Abandonment and Distress to culminate in Fulfilment and Reunion.*

The concert will be followed by a reception, which will include complimentary wine.

More information about this performance can be found on the ACMS website.