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Living Lands & Waters
Jan 20 2024
19:30
Figge Art Museum
Davenport, USA
Cost: $10-32
Tickets
ABOUT THIS EVENT

Celebrate the natural wonders around us with an exquisite evening of chamber music at the Figge. The concert opens with the airy melodies of Haydn’s “Lark” Quartet, leading into the evocative soundscape of John Luther Adams’ Dream of the Canyon Wren, which pays homage to the beauty of nature. Debussy’s L’isle Joyeuse transports the audience to an enchanted island, followed by the innovative and unexpected textures of John Cage’s prepared piano piece And the Earth Shall Bear Again and Angel Lam’s Secrets and Ice Garden. The night culminates with Schubert’s beloved “Trout” Quintet, weaving a narrative that resonates with the serene and joyful spirit of the natural world.

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PROGRAM
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet Op. 64 No 5 “Lark”: 1. Allegro Moderato
JOHN LUTHER ADAMSDream of the Canyon Wren for string quartet
CLAUDE DEBUSSY L’isle Joyeuse (Island of Joy)
JOHN CAGE And the Earth Shall Bear Again for prepared piano
ANGEL LAM Secrets and Ice Garden
FRANZ SCHUBERT Trout Quintet


THE VENUE

Figge Art Museum
225 W 2nd St
Davenport, 52801
USA


Phone: (563) 326-7804
Website: https://www.figgeartmuseum.org/


His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann
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