April 24, 2023

Catalyst Quartet & Karen Slack

The “invariably energetic and finely burnished” Catalyst Quartet (N Y Times) is this season’s Quartet in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Joining them in a new collaboration is “feisty, rich-voiced” soprano Karen Slack (N Y Times), featured at the Metropolitan Opera in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Their program includes Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet, African American spirituals, Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in E Minor (with Artistic Director, Aaron Wunsch) and a powerful new setting of Langston Hughes’s poem, Kids Who Die, for soprano, piano, and string quartet.

Program

Fanny Mendelssohn - String Quartet in E-flat Major

Four African American Spirituals, arr. Stephen Taylor

Florence Price - Piano Quintet in E Minor

Scott Gendel – Kids Who Die (Langston Hughes) Version for soprano, string quartet, and piano New York Premiere

Germaine Tailleferre - String Quartet

Watch & Listen

The Catalyst Quartet performs Florence B. Price’s setting of the spiritual “Go Down, Moses” at Music Mondays

Soprano Karen Slack sings Tu che le vanita from Verdi's Don Carlo

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