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Friday, March 6, 202045th Parallel Universe founder Greg Ewer gathers his friends for a night of Scandinavian delights.
The nyckelharpa and the hardanger fiddle are two of Scandinavia's most iconic traditional instruments. This program will feature folk music for both of these bowed instruments as well as a pair of youthful masterpieces by two of Scandinavia's most beloved composers, Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 1 in G minor and Edvard Grieg's tuneful Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major. Both works are inspired in part by Scandinavian folk music and are gems of the chamber music literature.
We will also hear a newly commissioned, Scandinavian-inspired violin duet by 45th Parallel Composer-in-Residence Kenji Bunch, and a rousing excerpt from a recently published set of folk songs arranged in 2013 by the Danish String Quartet, Wood Works.
WORKS
Carl Nielsen: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13
Folk music on hardanger fiddle
Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 8
Kenji Bunch: Wildflower (world premiere)
Folk music on nyckelharpa
Peat dance (traditional, arr. Danish String Quartet, from Wood Works)
PERFORMERS
Greg Ewer, violin
Ron Blessinger, violin
Charles Noble, viola
Nancy Ives, cello
Amy Hakanson, nyckelharpa
Rachel Nesvig, hardanger fiddle
Doug Schneider, piano
