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Telegraph Quartet to perform in Scottsdale cludes Florence Price’s Five Folkhe Telegraph Quartet will per- songs in Counform at 4 p.m. Sunday, March terpoint, Grazy6, at Desert Hills Presbyterian na Bacewicz’s Church, after its 2:30 p.m. workshop String Quartet entitled “Conversations with Master No. 4, and Ravel’s Musicians.” String Quartet in The quartet is violinists Eric Chin and F Major. With Five Joseph Maile; violist Pei-Ling Lin and in cellist Jeremiah Shaw. The show is pre- Folksongs Counterpoint, sented by Arts at the Rocks. Space is limited for the workshop, so Florence Price The Telegraph Quartet, from left, violinist Joseph Maile, cellist Jeremiah Shaw, reservations are required by calling takes the sim- violist Pei-Ling Lin and violinist Eric Chin will perform at Desert Hills Presbyterian Church on Sunday, March 6. (Photo courtesy of The Telegraph Quartet) plicity of Amer480-488-3384. For this afternoon concert, Telegraph ican folk songs Quartet will present a program that in- and spirituals and works those melodies against each other to create a tapestry of counterpoint and interaction. Written around 1951, but only rediscovered in 2009, the work is a powerful contrapuntal rendering of five popular African American spirituals and folk songs. Grażyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No. 4 was also composed in 1951, several years after the end of World War II. During this time, Bacewicz lived B A P T I S T C H U R C H through the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. The work opens with a kind of sorrow-tinged hope that builds to a joyous, Tchaikovsky-esque third movement. Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major was written just as he was finally finding his voice as a composer, having been swept up into the color world of Debussy’s SUNDAYS AT 10:30AM “Impressionism,” and more literally inspired, in part, by Debussy’s own ✔ Practical Bible message quartet. He uses the quartet medium to ✔ Inspiring music find a space and vibrancy, using clear, ✔ Family atmosphere etched themes set against a backdrop of colorfully evocative environments. HILLCREST BAPTIST CHURCH In 2018 the quartet released its debut (Meets inside Ridgeline Academy) album, “Into the Light,” featuring works by Anton Webern, Benjamin Britten, and Leon Kirchner on the Centaur label. www.hillcrestbaptistaz.org Beyond the concert stage, the Telegraph Quartet seeks to spread its music
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through education and audience engagement. The quartet has given master classes at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Collegiate and Pre-College Divisions, through the Morrison Artist Series at San Francisco State University, and abroad at the Taipei National University of the Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. It has also served as artists-in-residence at the Interlochen Adult Chamber Music Camp, SoCal Chamber Music Workshop, and Crowden Music Center Chamber Music Workshop. In November 2020, the Telegraph Quartet launched ChamberFEAST!, a chamber music workshop in Taiwan. The Telegraph Quartet adapted to the challenging times presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and performed virtual concerts presented by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Crowden Chamber Music Workshop, Noe Music, Noontime Concerts, Music in Corrales, and Intermusic SF. For Earth Day 2020 (the 50th anniversary of Earth Day), the National Academy of Science in collaboration with the ClimateMusic Project hosted a virtual performance by the Telegraph Quartet of Richard Festinger’s Icarus in Flight. In 2020, Telegraph launched an ongoing online video project called TeleLab, in which the ensemble collectively breaks down the components of a movement from various works for quartet. Telegraph Quartet
WHEN: 4 p.m. Sunday, March 6 WHERE: Desert Hills Presbyterian Church, 34605 N.Tom Darlington Drive, Scottsdale COST: Free INFO: deserthills.org or telegraphquartet.com
