The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s string quartet is performing a 5-night, 5-city tour promoting music as strength, music as hope, music as change.
Throughout history, composers have turned to music in the face of hardship—to find light in darkness, to hold fast to truth, to rise up, and to offer comfort, courage, and strength. In this Jukebox, we look to those composers who have created music for hope, resistance, and change—music composed in prison camps, music that calls out injustice, music that shouts dissent, music that is charged with the need to speak out and be heard. In these challenging times, this special concert brings us together to offer a sense of optimism borne of music and community.
Brooke Quiggins-Saulnier and Joana Genova, violin; Stefanie Taylor, viola; and John Dunlop, cello. Hosted and curated by Matt LaRocca.
PROGRAM
Russell Peck – Don’t Tread on Me
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4 – Movement I
Ethel Smyth – String Quartet in E minor
Gideon Klein – Trio
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Frank Horvat – The Thailand HRDs
Milad Yousufi – Refugee
Zoltan Almashi – Mariupol
Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land
This concert is generously sponsored by Kristi and Sandy Bragg, and by Carol and Fra DeVine. The VSO thanks The Paramount Theatre for its support of the Jukebox concert series, and the Young Cultural Endowment for Rutland for VSO’s activities in the community.