Thursday, November 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm CST
From our Sounds of the Cold War in 2024 to 1945 in 2025, Guarneri Hall has invited audiences to join us in exploring connections between key historical events to the transformative power of music. On November 11-12, we’ll continue that tradition with Revolutions, examining the intersections of political, social, technological, and musical change at two more pivotal moments in world history
Revolutions 2 explores these questions through the music and politics of 1918, in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. As monarchies dissolved and empires transformed, boundaries that had previously constrained composers gave way and new compositional freedoms burst forth, as evidenced in works by Ravel, Stravinsky and Janáček.
Social scientist Andreas Glaeser will add perspective to what promises to be a three-way conversation between scholars, musicians and the Guarneri Hall audience.
View Revolutions 1: 1796, the other event in this series.
Program
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Duo
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): L’Histoire du Soldat
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928): Quartet No. 1, “The Kreutzer Sonata”
Artists: Chelsea Wang, piano; Nathan Meltzer and Eric Gratz, violin; Brian Hong, viola; Alexander Hersh, cello; Katherine Jimoh, clarinet; Andreas Glaeser, guest speaker
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