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America at 250: Centuries of Sound
Opening Night Orchestra celebrating pivotal moments in Western music
Strings Music Festival’s Season 39 classical series opens with a vibrant program tracing two and a half centuries of Western music evolution. Michael Sachs conducts a distinguished orchestra featuring concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef. The performance includes Carl Stamitz’s Orchestral Quartet of 1776, Beethoven’s final String Quartet from 1826, Dvořák’s radiant Serenade for Strings from 1875, and Barber’s lyrical Serenade, rearranged in 1944.
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Carl Stamitz Orchestral Quartet in C Major, Op. 14 No. 1
(1745–1801)
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in F Major, No. 16, Op. 135
(1770–1827)
INTERMISSION
Samuel Barber Serenade for Strings, Op. 1, III. Dance
(1910–1981)
Charlie Chaplin Smile from Modern Times
(1889–1977)
Antonín Dvořák Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22
(1841–1904)
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