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Telegraph Quartet to perform in Scottsdale

BY FOOTHILLS FOCUS STAFF

The Telegraph Quartet will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at Desert Hills Presbyterian Church, after its 2:30 p.m. workshop entitled “Conversations with Master Musicians.”

The quartet is violinists Eric Chin and Joseph Maile; violist Pei-Ling Lin and cellist Jeremiah Shaw. The show is presented by Arts at the Rocks.

Space is limited for the workshop, so reservations are required by calling 480-488-3384.

For this afternoon concert, Telegraph Quartet will present a program that in-

cludes Florence Price’s Five Folksongs in Counterpoint, Grazyna Bacewicz’s String Quartet No. 4, and Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major. With Five Folksongs in Counterpoint, Florence Price The Telegraph Quartet, from left, violinist Joseph Maile, cellist Jeremiah Shaw, takes the simplicity of Amerviolist Pei-Ling Lin and violinist Eric Chin will perform at Desert Hills Presbyterian Church on Sunday, March 6. (Photo courtesy of The Telegraph Quartet) ican folk songs 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 QuarHILLCREST tet No. 4 was also composed in 1951, several years after the end of World

BAPTIST CHURCH War II. During this time, Bacewicz lived Grow With Us! 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 SUNDAYS AT 10:30AM up into the color world of Debussy’s “Impressionism,” and more literally ✔ Practical Bible message inspired, in part, by Debussy’s own ✔ Inspiring music quartet. He uses the quartet medium to find a space and vibrancy, using clear, ✔ Family atmosphere etched themes set against a backdrop HILLCREST BAPTIST CHURCH of colorfully evocative environments. In 2018 the quartet released its debut (Meets inside Ridgeline Academy) album, “Into the Light,” featuring works 602.350.0968 www.hillcrestbaptistaz.org by Anton Webern, Benjamin Britten, and Leon Kirchner on the Centaur label. Beyond the concert stage, the Telegraph Quartet seeks to spread its music 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