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One of the most inventive and interactive programs Spektral Quartet has created invites concertgoers to join the creative process by writing five postcards across the evening with stimulating visuals and provocative writing prompts from the quartet. For each piece, the listener is drawn closer to the composition, using the music as the leaping-off point for audience members to pen a short message to someone special in their own life. Writing on custom-made postcards featuring the alluring work of visual artists, concertgoers become creators right alongside the Quartet…and reconnect with loved ones in unexpected ways.

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Spektral Quartet

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet was composed for his wife, Clara, who was an excellent pianist and composer. Felix Mendelssohn played the piano part privately in one of the salons of the time, but it was Clara Schumann who publicly premiered the piano quintet in Leipzig in 1843; and that at a time when it was not appropriate for female musicians to perform in public. But Clara Schumann was an exception, and the artistic milieu a mixture of something conservative and progressive. A piano quintet in itself was progressive, because there were not many before Robert Schumann who had combined the piano with a string quartet. Actually, however, he probably got the idea from Mozart himself, when he had edited his own versions of his piano concertos into quintet format, so that they could be performed under more intimate circumstances.

Arthur Russell

Composer

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 28, 2025

Schumann's Piano Quintet · Odense Symphony Orchestra

Past events

May 26, 2022

Spektral Quartet · La Jolla Music Society

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