The Fertile Crescent

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The Fertile Crescent: A concert of folk inspired chamber music from Persia and beyond

Béla Bartók String Quartet no. 3
Sahba Aminikia String Quartet no. 2, “One Day in Tehran”
Reza Vali Folk Songs set no. 11b for string quartet
Joseph Haydn Quartet no. 46 op. 20 no.4
Astor Piazzolla Four for Tango

The music of two Persian composers will be included on the program. Reza Vali, who has been on the faculty of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University since 1988, will be represented by a set of folk song arrangements, to which he has assigned the catalog number 11b. Closer to home, Tehran-born Sahba Aminikia received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music through composition studies with Dan Becker, David Garner, and David Conte. The Circadian will perform his second string quartet, subtitled “One Day in Tehran.” The “beyond” portion of the program will reach back to the eighteenth-century Vienna of Joseph Haydn with his Hoboken III/34 quartet in D major. This quartet is particularly distinguished by its third (Menuet) movement in the gypsy style. This “eastern influence” will also include Béla Bartók’s third string quartet; and the program will conclude with Astor Piazzolla’s “Four for Tango,” which he composed for the Kronos Quartet.

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