Name: Her Voice: Chamber Music by Women Composers
Start: 2024-03-24T15:00:00-07:00
Location: Benicia Community Congregational Church

Her Voice: Chamber Music by Women Composers

Benicia Chamber Players

Benicia Chamber Players perform string quartets by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Jessie Montgomery, Florence Price, and Ethel Smyth

Benicia Community Congregational Church

Her Voice: Chamber Music by Women Composers“Her Voice” celebrates the rich heritage of string quartet compositions by women composers from diverse historical and cultural backgrounds. Although the fiercely passionate and rhapsodic string quartet by Fanny Mendelssohn was never publicly performed during her lifetime, it stands as one of the earliest surviving romantic string quartets by a woman composer. Strum is a vibrant one-movement work drawing on American folk idioms and dance by living American composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery. The first and unfinished string quartet in G major by Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have her work performed by a major American orchestra, is alternately peaceful and hymnal, yet vibrant and impassioned. The first quartet by Dame Ethel Smyth, an English composer and dedicated suffragist, is full of fiery intensity and raw energy, yet also introspection and lyrical beauty. March 22, 2024 at 7:30 PMTrinity Lutheran Church1225 Hopyard RoadPleasanton, CA 94566<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/852636277057?aff=oddtdtcreator" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/852636277057?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CLICK HERE FOR FRIDAY TICKETS</a> March 24, 2024 at 3 PMBenicia Community Congregational Church1305 W 2nd Street Benicia, CA 94510 Program:Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel- String Quartet in E-flat MajorJessie Montgomery - StrumFlorence Price - String Quartet No. 1 in G MajorEthel Smyth - String Quartet in C Minor Players:Alicia Choi, violinJooyeon Kong, violinAlexandra Simpson, violaBrady Anderson, cello

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