Telegraph Quartet, String Quartet in Residence
with SMTD faculty Malcolm Tulip, narrator and Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano
and guest young artists Anna Sykes, viola and Katarina Elise, cello

Join us for the Telegraph Quartet's first of two concerts celebrating the music of the Second Viennese School and those they influenced with their daring experimentation during the first half of the 20th century.

We'll explore two monumental works by the founder of that school, Arnold Schönberg, that span the full breadth of his musical journey – first with an early work form 1899, his late-romantic and deeply expressive Verklärte Nacht or "Transfigured Night," a tone poem for string sextet inspired by the poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel. On the other side of his career, the Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte of 1942 is a dramatic chamber music recitation, setting Lord Byron's eponymous poem lambasting Napoleon's tyranny and defeat, but intended by Schönberg to be a defiant statement against at the despotism and horror of Hitler's tyranny. Starting the program will be the dazzling and colorful String Quartet No. 3 by Jamaican-British composer Eleanor Alberga, who in this specific work, experimented with the 12-tone method invented by Arnold Schönberg, melding that musical vocabulary into her own deeply individual aesthetic and adding yet another unique voice at the end of the century to a style that would become utterly pervasive during the 20th century.

PROGRAM
Eleanor Alberga - String Quartet No. 3
Arnold Schönberg - Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for String Quartet, Piano and Reciter
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Arnold Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht for String Sextet

The award-winning Telegraph String Quartet – featuring Eric Chin and Joseph Maile (violins), Pei-Ling Lin (viola), and Jeremiah Shaw (cello) – is engaged in a three-year artist residency at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

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