Fratres String Quartet

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="a79015a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>906-910 W. Ainslie Condominiums </B></FONT><B>  </B><B>   |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="906910 W. Ainslie Condominiums "><B>home</B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Frates for String Quartet</B></I></div> <div> <B>by Ar</B><B>v</B><B>o P</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><B>ärt</B></FONT></div> <div> <I>Tristan Lehnert, violin</I></div> <div> <I>Melissa Barrett, violin</I></div> <div> <I>Yvonne Johnson, viola</I></div> <div> <I>Angela Maleh, cello</I></div> <div> <B>If your computer's sound system is working you should be hearing a commercially recorded excerpt.</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="661" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 324 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="8f7bc8f0.jpg" border=0 width="188" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="453"><div> With more than 80 compositions to his credit, Arvo Pärt is considered one of the most important living composers of concert music. Born in placecountry-regionEstonia in 1935, his early works show influences of Russian composers such as Shostakovich and Bartok. But he became restless with established styles and for a decade experimented with avant garde compositional techniques. In 1968, censored by the Soviets who had occupied Estonia and deeply dissatisfied with his life and work, Pärt retreated into self-imposed silence. Converting to the Russian Orthodox faith, he devoted himself to the study of early Western music (eg plainsong) and Eastern mysticism. </div> <bR> <div> The composer reappeared in1977 with a set of six chamber pieces entitled “Fratres” or brethren, of which <I><B><U>Fratres for String Quartet</U></B></I><B> </B>is a particularly fine example. The style is spare, even minimalist, and each musical element is tightly controlled. Texture is transparent; rhythmic patterns are short and oft-repeated; pitches are few and widely-spaced; timbres (color) are distinctive and unique for each of the six Fratres compositions. “Tintannabulation” is Pärt's name for a particular technique he first used in these pieces and continues to use today. It means “ringing of the bells,” and we'll demonstrate briefly prior to our performance.</div> <bR> <div> <I>                                       </I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330000" FACE="Arial Narrow" ><B> <a href="JavaScript:window.close()">Close</a>  </B></FONT><I> <p> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" width=0 height=0 align="absmiddle"> <param name=movie value="mp3ss212s.swf"> <param name=quality value=best> <param name=wmode value=transparent> <param name=bgcolor value=#FFFFFF> <param name=loop value=false> <embed src="mp3ss212s.swf" quality=best wmode=transparent bgcolor=#FFFFFF loop=false width=0 height=0 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" align="absmiddle"> </embed> </object> </p>  </I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>