{"id":60679,"date":"2019-05-23T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=60679"},"modified":"2019-05-26T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T14:16:30","slug":"toronto-summer-music-dover-quartet","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/toronto-summer-music-dover-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Summer Music | Dover Quartet\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dover Quartet<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Britten: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bart<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00f3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">k: String Quartet No. 3<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, \u201cAmerican\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe young American string quartet of the moment\u201d (New Yorker) plays a meaty and substantial program of music by composers from England, Hungary<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and Bohemia (Czech Republic) \u2013 all of which have strong links to the USA. England\u2019s Benjamin Britten composed his highly inventive first quartet in 1941, while living in California. Hungarian master\u202fB\u00e9la\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bart\u00f3k<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202fcreated his third string q<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">uartet 1927<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">; it is in four parts on the\u00a0score, but\u00a0played as one continuous movement in concert<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. He dedicated it to the Musical Society Fund of Philadelphia. It won a joint first prize in a global chamber music competition that the society organized. Czech composer\u202fAnton\u00edn\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202fspent the years 1892 to 1895 in America, as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York. He spent his first summer vacation in\u202f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Spillville<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Iowa, a town of 300 Czech immigrants. Surrounded by his home culture, he felt a profound urge to express in music his jovial feelings and his\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">deep homesickness. He composed the beloved \u201cAmerican\u201d Quartet in just 15 days. The influence of earthy Czech folk music echoes throughout every bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tickets, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcmusic.com\/tickets\/seats\/109003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dover Quartet\u00a0 Britten: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25\u00a0 Bart\u00f3k: String Quartet No. 3 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, \u201cAmerican\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe young American string quartet of the moment\u201d (New Yorker) plays a meaty and substantial program of music by composers from England, Hungary,\u00a0and Bohemia (Czech Republic) \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5052,5513],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60745,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60679\/revisions\/60745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60679"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=60679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}