News Release
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April 20, 2006
Boise Chamber Music Society Presents Two Concerts,
Competition to Wrap up Season
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The Boise Chamber Music Society, the Boise State University Department of
Music and the Idaho Commission on the Arts will present a competition and
two concerts to wrap up the chamber society’s season.
The first-ever Boise Chamber Music Society Young Artist String Quartet
competition will be held at 7 p.m. May 5 in the Morrison Center Recital
Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Three pre-college and three
college-age quartets will vie for cash prizes in a competition judged by the
Ying String Quartet, the quartet in residence at the Eastman School of Music
of the University of Rochester.
The competitors include students from Centennial and Timberline high
schools, as well as the Albertson College String Quartet, the Animae Quartet
and the Boise State University Quartet. The collegiate first-place winner
will receive the $800 Dee Harris Award, and the pre-college first-place
winner will receive $600. Both winning quartets will perform before a May 6
concert in the Egyptian Theatre featuring two well-known professional
quartets.
In addition, the Turtle Island String Quartet will play “A Little Morning
Music” at 10:30 a.m. May 6 in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. This free
concert is a prelude to the evening’s concert, when Turtle Island will be
joined by the Ying String Quartet, at 8 p.m. May 6 at the Egyptian Theatre.
Tickets are $25 general and $20 students and seniors at the Egyptian’s box
office, (208) 387-1273.
Each quartet will perform separately during the first half of the concert.
In the second half, the quartets will join forces to perform a transcription
of Darius Milhaud’s 1923 “La Création du Monde,” the first significant
attempt to use jazz in a concert work. “Julie-O,” a tour de force for cello
by Mark Summer, follows.
The centerpiece of the program is David Balakrishnan’s “Mara’s Garden of
False Delights,” a three-movement work imbued with the composer’s trademark
stylistic integration of jazz, American vernacular, Western classical and
East Indian musical genres. The program will end with the groups squaring
off in a classic “battle of the bands” configuration to perform Evan Price’s
“Variations on an Unoriginal Theme,” which takes the audience on a tour
through a brief history of chamber music, beginning with a bit of simulated
Haydn and ending with James Brown. The recording of this collaboration won a
Grammy for best cross-over album of 2005.
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Contact: Jeanne Belfy, (208) 426-1216,
jbelfy@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
Boise State University is the largest institution of higher education in
Idaho with about 18,600 students and 2,200 faculty and staff. More than 190
undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and technical degrees are offered within
eight colleges. A metropolitan university located in the capital city, Boise
State is committed to life-enhancing research, teaching excellence and
public service.
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Last reviewed on Wednesday, January 03, 2007