[an error occurred while processing this directive]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
 |
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
|
|
|
|
7.26.2001 00:05
Vega will tackle Bartok at URI;
Mandofire
will light the rivers
The Kingston Chamber Music Festival marks something of a milestone tonight, with a performance of its first-ever Bartok String Quartet, the composer's taxing fourth. Doing the honors will be members of the young Chinese-born Vega Quartet, the festival's first resident ensemble.
Meanwhile, mandolin groups taking part in this week's Providence International Mandolin Festival will be performing Saturday at a mini-
WaterFire,
or
MandoFire,
as it's being billed.
The torches in front of the Rhode Island School of Design and Memorial Park will be lit about 8:30 and burn until midnight. At 8:45 there will be a half-hour break in the
WaterFire
music, and three mandolin orchestras will perform. There will be another half-hour break at 10 p.m. for three more bands to perform.
The bands will be set up on the RISD steps near the gazebo, at the foot of the World War I memorial and on the lawn in Memorial Park near Hemenway's.
Even the recorded
WaterFire
music will be new for the evening, featuring mandolins.
And there's lots more mandolin music planned.
Tomorrow night, groups participating in the mandolin fest will be fanning out across the state, appearing at libraries, social clubs and village greens.
Germany's 12-member Ensemble Roggenstein, one of Europe's premier mandolin orchestras, plays the Jamestown Library at 7:30 p.m., while Spain's Cuarteto Assai will be at Cumberland's Blackstone River Theater, 549 Broad St., at 8 p.m. The mandolin is a stringed instrument that usually has a pear-shaped body and several pairs of strings; this quartet uses its Spanish equivalent, the
bandurria
, along with the
laude
, or Spanish lute.
Providence's Italo-American Club, 256 Broadway, hosts Orquestra Citta di Brescia from Italy at 8 p.m. as part of a dinner fundraiser.
For 400 years, student groups have been playing the mandolin across Spain and Portugal. One of the largest, VincenTuna, plays music evoking Iberian nights and wandering minstrels on the Wakefield Common at 8 p.m. A guitarist, cellist and mandolinist known collectively as Trio Quintessencia treats listeners to the lively sound of Brazilian
chorinho
at 8 p.m. at Calvary Episcopal Church in Stonington, Conn.
Ticket prices vary for the community events. Call 273-6930 for particulars.
Finally, all six groups, including the Providence Mandolin Orchestra, which is hosting the festival, gather on the stage of McVinney Auditorium, on Franklin Street off Cathedral Square in downtown Providence, Sunday afternoon at 3. Each group steps into the spotlight for a brief individual showing, then all 80 musicians perform en masse. Tickets are $10.
Chamber festival at URI
The Kingston Chamber Music Festival, which takes place at the University of Rhode Island and runs though Aug. 3, continues Saturday with the Vega Quartet playing Haydn and Finnish pianist Paavali Jumppanen tackling some of the difficult Rachmaninoff Etudes.
After intermission, festival artists dust off some of their favorite show pieces for a special "encore night."
Concerts take place in the Fine Arts Center at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15, $5 for students. Call 789-0665.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
|
Printer-Friendly Version
