4 + Viola
Event Date: 08/07/2018, 03:00 pm
Acacia Quartet with guest artist Emile Cantor, viola
featuring a program of viola quintets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nick Wales and Antonin Dvorak.
The North Sydney concert by the thrice ARIA Award-nominated ensemble opens with Mozart's exquisite String Quintet in G minor K516, followed by Boomi's Ray by Australian composer Nick Wales. Closing this mouth-watering concert is Dvorak’s joyful String Quartet in E flat major Op 97.
Mozart’s G minor quintet was written during the final days of his father’s terminal illness and was completed just 12 days before Leopold’s death. Nick Wales is best known for his collaborations, notably with Sarah Blasko and the Sydney Dance Company.
Boomi’s Ray is a memorial, written to be played at the funeral of a friend.
Dvorák composed his E flat String Quintet during his summer vacation in Spillville, Iowa (which had a large Czech population) in 1893. Written around the same time as his famous ‘American’ quartet, it is believed to be a response to his witnessing the joyful 400th anniversary celebrations of Columbus’ arrival in the New World.
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The Independent Theatre 269 Miller St,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060
The Independent Theatre 269 Miller St,
North Sydney New South Wales,2060