Momenta Festival I: Momenta à la mode

On October 4, we will host this concert in person, and tickets are free. 

Registration for this concert has been CLOSED but walk-ins are welcome as seats may still be available.  

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Momenta Quartet (Emilie-Anne Gendron, Alex Shiozaki, Stephanie Griffin, Michael Haas) is back on our stage for two nights of their Momenta Festival. 
This evening, curated by violist Stephanie Griffin, is titled "Momenta à la Mode" with guest violinists Arun Ramamurthy and Trina Basu. 

Griffin says about the program: 

"Practice your scales! Modes are the building blocks for so many types of music in numerous world traditions. This program celebrates composers for whom modes are a veritable obsession, moving beyond building blocks to be the actual subject matter of their compositions. Sebastian Zubieta solved Renaissance-Italian-music-theorist, singer, and priest Pietro Cerone's Enigma de la escala, realizing it for violin, two violas, and cello, with everything weaving around a simple scale in the second viola part. Mexican composer Julián Carrillo took a deep dive into whole-tone scales in his String Quartet No. 2 à Debussy, and American composer Robert Morris' lifelong obsession with South Indian Carnatic music is expressed in his monumental Carnatic String Quartet (2020), which artfully employs all 72 fundamental "melakarta" musical scales as set forth by Venkatamakhin in his treatise Chaturdandi Prakaasikaa as amended by Govindhacharya in the 17th-century. These scales include all western scales and modes and are well-known to every musician in South India." 

Program: 

Pietro Cerone (1556-1625): Enigma de la escala (transcribed by Sebastian Zubieta) 
Arun Ramamurthy / Trina Basu: Hemavathi (2023)
Julián Carrillo (1875-1965): String Quartet no. 12 (1964)
Robert Morris (b. 1943): Carnatic String Quartet (2020)