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Artistic Viewpoints, an informal moderated discussion featuring violinist James Lyon, Penn State professor of music, is offered in Eisenhower Auditorium one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders. Artistic Viewpoints regularly fills to capacity. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis.
Kronos Quartet • Awakening
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Eisenhower Auditorium
Adult $36 University Park Student $15 18 and Younger $26
San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has spent more than three decades combining a spirit of exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. Kronos has performed thousands of concerts, released more than forty-five recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, and commissioned more than 600 works and arrangements from diverse artists. In the evening-length Awakening, violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler perform a meditation on redemption originally inspired by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Awakening, which takes its name from a work by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky of Uzbekistan, includes music from a dozen countries. The program also features works by Argentineans Osvaldo Golijov and Gustavo Santaolalla, Americans Michael Gordon and Terry Riley, and Finlander Aulis Sallinen. Other music comes from composers in Turkey, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, India, and Sweden. The Nittany Valley Children’s Choir performs with Kronos.
The presentation includes a post-performance discussion among the quartet and audience members.
Kronos Quartet is presented in partnership with Juniata College’s Halbritter Center for the Performing Arts, where the ensemble performs a concert of mixed repertoire at 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 9.
sponsors
Gay D. Dunne, M.D., and James H. Dunne, M.D.
Artist Activities
Violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet conduct a string quartet workshop, which is open to the public, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, November 8, in Room 128 Music Building II on the University Park campus.
David Harrington, Kronos violinist and artistic director, hosts a free-and-open-to-the-public listening party—focused on the music he’s hearing on his MP3 player—at 7 p.m. Sunday, November 8, at the C. Barton McCann School of Art, 4144 Miller Road, in Petersburg.
If you’re driving to the McCann School from State College, take Route 26 to Pine Grove Mills. At the blinking light in Pine Grove Mills, turn left. Follow Route 26 south past the Whipple Damn State Park entrance. When you see St. Stephen’s Church on the left, take the next left onto Miller Road. Follow Miller Road 9/10 of a mile and turn right onto a driveway called Artists Way. Follow the driveway and turn left onto School House Road. Drive past the large pavilion. The Fern Hill Arts Center is behind the pavilion. You may also get directions to the school from MapQuest.