THE BIG APPLE

Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato / at 05:00 PM

Brooklyn Rider ph. Marco Giannavola

The program features five composers, very different from each other, all connected to New York. Dvořák had been called to lead the Conservatory; Gershwin and Glass are true icons of the city; Hemphill was a brilliant saxophonist active in the seventies and nineties; Jacobsen, a member of the quartet, showcases the beauty of the new generations.

Philip Glass 
String Quartet no. 8 

Julius Hemphill 
Bet Get Hit In Your Soul (from Mingus Gold) 

Colin Jacobsen 
BTT 
ITALIAN PREMIERE

George Gershwin 
Lullaby 

Antonín Dvořák 
Quartet in F major no. 12 op. 96 “American”