Sandbar Chamber Series I: Beethoven's Harp

Sunday, October 29th, 3 PM

**Thacher Hall

266 Main Street 6A, Yarmouth Port, MA 02675

Our Sandbar Chamber Series kicks off at Thacher Hall with music of Beethoven, Hildegard von Bingen, and Shelley Washington.

Middleground is a celebration of Washington’s childhood in Missouri and Kansas. It’s a road movie in musical form, taking us in a car alongside her family and friends. Washington’s program note expresses the many-layered recollections that she poured into Middleground:

MIDDLEGROUND: the space grounded, the between, the center. The Heartland. The prairie, the grasslands, Konza, Flint Hills, Manhattan, Emporia, Salina. Where we gathered.
Home of the heart, heart of the home.
The years spent in cars, daydreaming, scooping handfuls of wheat, racing out into amber fields, cycling together, water wheel ice cream, fireworks and apples. The stories shared, books read sprawled in the yard, family prayers over anything, late evening walks, quiet nights. Open arms, open hearts, humble and extraordinary.
Beethoven's String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, represents a pivotal and captivating moment in the composer's prolific career. Composed in 1809 during his middle period, it bears the nickname "Harp Quartet" due to the revolutionary use of pizzicato, or plucking, techniques in the strings, reminiscent of the delicate sound of a harp.

The first movement, marked "Poco adagio - Allegro," introduces the listener to the quartet's lyrical and spirited character. The second movement, the heart of the composition, is marked "Adagio ma non troppo" and is a profound expression of Beethoven's emotional depth.

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Category : Live Music | Classical

Price
General Admission: USD 35.0