If you’ve heard Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, you know it’s full of gorgeous moments and sweeping feeling, but have you ever wondered what, specifically, makes it great and keeps avid listeners coming back again and again?

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What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow, featuring A Far Cry

New England Conservatory

Three new works inspired by poet T.S. Eliot’s lyrical meditations on time and humanity’s relationship to it are presented alongside four movements from Beethoven’s exquisite and profound string quartets (the very same which were said to have inspired Eliot to write his Four Quartets). Through the Art of the Piano Foundation, acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt commissioned seven composers—including Montgomery, Singleton, and Prestini—to create works for piano and string orchestra or piano, string orchestra and vocal ensemble, based on Eliot's Four Quartets. Pratt, A Far Cry, and Roomful of Teeth recorded these works and released Stillpoint, from New Amsterdam Records.

A Far Cry

Feb 3, 2024

What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow, featuring A Far Cry

Nov 17, 2023

A Far Cry Presents: Four Quartets

A Far Cry