MASTERWORKS 2009-10
Concert Series
Capitol Theater
8:00 p.m.
Masterworks III
Friday, January 22, 2010
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra
Rodrigo: Concierto Andaluz
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes, opus 23
A concert of concertos marks our 3rd Masterworks concert. The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet presents a work specially written for such a combination, four guitars, in Rodrigo’s Concierto Andaluz. The Polish composer, Grazyna Bacewicz was herself a virtuoso violinist as well as composer, writing many works for string orchestra in the 1940s and 50s. This concerto will set our string section on fire with its energy and vitality. Argentinian composer, Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes, is a theme and variations in twelve short movements, in which each instrument has the spotlight as a soloist in this masterful creation from 1953.
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