Brentano String Quartet: Fragments: Connecting Past and Present

A A A Comments By Olivia Flores Alvarez Thursday, Dec 1 2011

To celebrate their twentieth anniversary, the Brentano String Quartet embarked on Fragments: Connecting Past and Present, an ambitious project to build a bridge between the great composers of yesterday with some of the best of the 20th century. The project was co-commissioned by Da Camera of Houston and features new works that contemporary composers wrote in reaction to unfinished music by Schubert, Bach and Mozart, among others.

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Wortham Theater Center

501 Texas Ave.
Houston, TX 77002

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Bruce Adolphe, for example, worked with Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C minor and Andante (unfinished); building on those musical themes, Adolphe wrote Fra(nz)gmentate. In a video about the composition posted online, Adolphe says he’s unsurprised that Schubert would leave pieces that seemed viable incomplete. “To write a nice melody for Schubert was so easy,” says Adolphe, “that the fact that he would abandon a melody is trivial. It’s like not finishing your breakfast. Why didn’t you finish your sausages?…I guess he was full.” 7:30 p.m. 1515 Sul Ross. For information, call 713-524-5050 or visit www.dacamera.org. $35.
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