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2021 Live Concerts

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 Rustic Live Outdoor Concert
French Music Soirée

featuring
 Argus Quartet
Clara Kim, violin,
Giancarlo Latta, violin
Maren Rothfritz, viola
Audrey Chen, cello
 
at
 McCall Vineyard
22600 NY-25, Cutchogue, NY 11935

 Sunday August 15, 2021 at 6:00pm
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Music Program
Visions and Miracles by Christopher Theofanidis (15 min)
"The Path" from Five by Christopher Theofanidis (5 min)
String Quartet by Germaine Tailleferre (10 min)
String Quartet in F major, Op. 96 "American"  by Antonin Dvorak (25 min)

Ticket price:
General admission picnic tables: $75/person (2-6/table)  or Individual Seats
Friends of Rites of Spring and Members of McCall Wines  
receive a $15/person discount.

Children Under 16 FREE

$5 Make a Donation to The Retreat: Where Violence Ends and Hope Begins. 
​
 This concert is made possible with the contribution of EETA Grant
In collaboration with McCall Vineyard

Attendance to this in-person performance will be limited and restrictions in place per NYS COVID-19 guidelines required at the time of the event.


Description
This colorful program takes listeners from America to France and back again with works by Christopher Theofanidis, Germaine Tailleferre, and Antonin Dvorak. Theofanidis, who teaches at Yale, and is one of the Argus Quartet’s closest long-term collaborators, wrote Visions and Miracles--an incredibly bright and happy piece—as he came out of a period of intense personal darkness not unlike what many of us may be emerging from after a year of isolation. The Path, also by Theofanidis, takes us to France: more serious in tone and mood, it transitions us from a bright atmosphere to something more pensive. In France, we meet Tailleferre, the only female member of the famous “Les Six,” a group of composers who were friends and collaborators in Montparnasse in the 1920s. Tailleferre, who was classmates with Milhaud and friends with Ravel, shows a great mastery of the form in her brief but evocative String Quartet. Finally, we return to America with one of the most beloved works of the string quartet repertoire, Dvorak’s “American” Quartet, written in a two-week burst of inspiration when the composer visited the small town of Spillville, Iowa, in summer 1893.
 
 Argus Quartet
 The Argus Quartet is dedicated to encouraging the joys of human connection, community, and discovery by bringing a wide-ranging repertoire to life through bold and meaningful programming and a vibrant commitment to collaboration and education. Praised for playing with “supreme melodic control and total authority” and “decided dramatic impact” (Calgary Herald), the Quartet has quickly emerged as one of today’s most dynamic and versatile ensembles, winning First Prize at both the 2017 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition and the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. 
 
Since then, increasingly busy concert seasons have taken Argus to some of the country’s most prestigious venues and festivals, including Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Chamber Music Society of Detroit, the Ravinia Festival, the Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. Highlights of the 2019-20 season include debut performances for Washington Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series, along with a return engagement in New York for the Schneider Concerts at the New School.
 
Argus has worked with many of today’s leading musical voices, including Martin Bresnick, Chris Cerrone, Ted Hearne, Garth Knox, Andrew Norman, Christopher Theofanidis, and Augusta Read Thomas. Recent commissions include new quartets by Katherine Balch, Donald Crockett, GRAMMY nominee Eric Guinivan, Hermitage Prize winner Thomas Kotcheff, and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Juri Seo. Argus’s recording of Seo’s works for string quartet was released in May 2019 on Innova Recordings. The Quartet has received grants from the Koussevitsky Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in support of their commissioning efforts.
 
From 2015-17, the Quartet served as the Fellowship Quartet in Residence at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of the Brentano Quartet, and from 2017-19 held the position of Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School, where they worked closely with the Juilliard String Quartet. They have also held residencies at New Music on the Point, working with the JACK Quartet, and at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts as the Ernst Stiefel Quartet in Residence.
Education and outreach are an important part of the Argus Quartet’s mission. The Quartet has worked with students through residencies and masterclasses at Yale and Princeton, James Madison University, Rockport Music, the Milken School, the Young Musicians Foundation, California State University Long Beach, and Los Angeles City College.
Based in New York City, the Quartet was founded in Los Angeles in 2013, where its members shared many meals at their favorite taco truck on Argus Drive.

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  • HOME
    • ABOUT
    • FOUNDER
    • VISION / MISSION
    • BOARD
    • CONTACT
  • 2023 FESTIVAL
    • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
    • Titans of the 20th Century Date: April 16th, 2023 >
      • TICKETS April 16th 2023
    • Luminous Beauty Date: May 14th, 2023 >
      • TICKETS May 14th 2023
    • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: May 27th, 2023 >
      • TICKETS May 27th 2023
    • The Rites of Spring Date: June 24th, 2023 >
      • TICKETS June 24th 2023
    • Music at the Village Green Date: July 13th, 2023
    • Across American Roots Date: July 22nd, 2023
    • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: August 27th, 2023
  • GET INVOLVED
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    • MUSIC EDUCATION >
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        • ENROLLMENT
    • Gallery >
      • PRESS
    • 7TH EDITION 2022 >
      • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
      • Meet & Greet and.... Music Date: 5/22/2022
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: 5/28/2022 >
        • TICKETS May 28th
      • The Sounds of Nature Date: 6/10/2022
      • Between the Wind and the Shrubs Date: 7/01/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 1st
      • Solo Recital All Frederic Chopin Date: 7/24/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 24th
      • Across American Roots Date: 7/31/2022 >
        • TICKETS July 31
      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: 8/14/2022 >
        • TICKETS August 14th
      • Songs of Love & Despair Date: 9/25/2022 >
        • TICKETS September 25th
      • Music for a Changing Climate: A Meditation Date: 10/16/2022 >
        • TICKETS October 16th
      • Sounds of Images Date: 11/04/2022 >
        • TICKETS November 4th
      • 2022 HOLIDAY CONCERT Date: 12/18/2022 >
        • TICKETS December 18th
    • 6th EDITION, 2021 >
      • 2021 FESTIVAL
      • 2021 MUSIC & TELL VIRTUAL EPISODES
      • O Mysterium Magnum
      • New Music Under the Big Sky
      • Ballads & Other Cautionary Tales
      • An evening of Shakespeare:
      • French Music Soirée
      • Sound of Science >
        • Sound of Science Date: 9/17/202
      • A Night at The JazzLoft
      • 2021 Benefit Holiday Concert
    • 5TH EDITION, 2020 >
      • 2020 LIVE CONCERTS
      • 2020 ONLINE MUSIC & TELL EPISODES
      • Music & Culinary Soiree
      • Holiday Benefit Concert
      • Silent Auction Fundraiser
    • 4th Edition, 2019
    • 3rd Edition, 2018
    • 2nd Edition, 2017
    • 1st Edition, 2016