Music The Lydian String Quartet Present New Works

This concert is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.

The Lydian String Quartet--Daniel Stepner and Judith Eissenberg, violins; Mark Berger, viola; and Joshua Gordon, cello--present:

Aqua (2010-11) by Harold Meltzer (b. 1966)

Liquid – Kaleidoscopic – Warm and Full – Kaleidoscopic – Liquid --
Precious – Dizzying – Joyous – Almost Hysterical –
Muscular – More Courtly – Tender – Dawning

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at
Brigham Young University, for the Avalon, Lydian and Pacifica Quartets

String Quartet No. 3 by Lee Hyla (1952-2014)
(in one movement)

Treatises for an Unrecovered Past by Kurt Rohde (1967)

I – NODE: Tuning Knot

II – Recently Found Fragments: Chant Loop

III – Striding Rituals: Nocturnal Gatherings for Mass Wooing

III.5 or 5.IV – Optional habits

IV – CODEX: I know I know this (…almost remembering…)

V – Turn the Corner: Post-Rapture Celebration

VI - NODE: Ex nihilo…In nihil [-for Mary Ruth-]

Winner of the Lydian String Quartet 2012 Composition Commission Award