The Cutting Garden

Saturday, March 22, 2025, 7:30PM

Live Oak Friends Meeting House
1318 West 26th Street, 77008

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$20 general admission

About

The second of two chamber music performances in intimate venues around the city, The Cutting Garden blends quartet and quintet repertoire from across time that engages with the natural world.

— curated by Tonya Burton, violist, and Austin Lewellen, bassist

Program

Michi Wiancko: Blue Bourée (2014)

W. A. Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K.387, “Spring” (1782)

  1. Allegro vivace assai

  2. Menuetto allegro

  3. Andante cantabile

  4. Molto allegro

Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M.35 (1903)

  1. Allegro moderato

Caroline Shaw: Plan and Elevation (2015)

  1. The Ellipse

  2. The Cutting Garden

  3. The Herbaceous Border

  4. The Orangery

  5. The Beech Tree

Halim El-Dabh: Aria (1949)