{"id":2585,"date":"2012-04-03T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:58:08","slug":"another-smf-chamber-music-performance-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/03\/another-smf-chamber-music-performance-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Another SMF chamber music performance on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well here&#8217;s today&#8217;s installment of classical music from the Savannah Music Festival, which is being featured all week on NPR Music: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/event\/music\/149921959\/savannah-music-festivals-russian-reminiscence\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah Music Festival&#8217;s Russian Reminiscence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The program airing today (you can listen at the above link) was recorded at the Telfair Academy on March 28th. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 62-minute performance of Anton Arensky: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35 and Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 (for string sextet).<\/p>\n<p>The performers include:<br \/>\n<strong>Daniel Hope, violin<br \/>\nPhilip Dukes, viola<\/strong><br \/>\nand the following from the Arensky ensemble:<br \/>\n<strong>Benny Kim, violin<br \/>\nJosephine Knight, cello<br \/>\nKeith Robinson, cello<br \/>\nCarla Maria Rodrigues, viola<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From NPR&#8217;s description: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this program, Hope and his handpicked group of players begin with a musical memorial to Tchaikovsky and close with music by the master himself. When Tchaikovsky died in 1893 at age 53, he left more than a few young Russian composers devastated. Sergei Rachmaninov responded with a brooding, elegiac piano trio dedicated to Tchaikovsky&#8217;s memory. Anton Arensky went one step further in his Second String Quartet, borrowing one of Tchaikovsky&#8217;s best-loved melodies (from the song &#8220;Legend&#8221;) to serve as the emotional heart of the piece. There&#8217;s a palpable air of solemnity in Arensky&#8217;s music, written for the non-traditional ensemble of violin, viola and two cellos. Arensky later revamped his three-movement piece by extracting the central movement, a set of variations on Tchaikovsky&#8217;s song, and beefing it up into a stand-alone piece for string orchestra.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go to the link to listen and to read more. As I keep noting, this is amazing PR for the entire city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In this program, Hope and his handpicked group of players begin with a musical memorial to Tchaikovsky and close with music by the master himself. When Tchaikovsky died in 1893 at age 53, he left more than a few young Russian composers devastated. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/03\/another-smf-chamber-music-performance-on-npr\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,102,101,14,100,37],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screenshot_43.png?fit=406%2C357","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-FH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}