MAY 24, 2025, Saturday at NOON/ Free Edendale Library Up Close Concerts presents the FIATO Quartet


Edendale Up Close presents the Fiato Quartet, Saturday May 24, 2025 at 12:00 noon-1:00 pm PT 

in the Edendale Library community room.


For our next Edendale Up Close concert, Saturday May 24th at 12:00 noon, we are excited to welcome the Fiato Quartet – 

violinists Carrie Kennedy and Joel Pargman, violist Aaron Oltman, and cellist Ryan Sweeney. 


They will perform 

Haydn’s Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, “The Joke”, 

and Dvorak’s “American “ Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96.


Fiato Quartet, winner of the 2022 Beverly Hills National Auditions, was formed in 2008. In addition to their acclaimed work as Fiato, they are also members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pasadena Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, New West Symphony, and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. As studio musicians in Los Angeles, they also record music for movies and television. In addition to the standard quartet repertoire, Fiato has a passion for new music. They have premiered ten new string quartets by local composers, including works by Julia Adolphe and Adam Schoenberg. Each member of Fiato brings a unique set of experiences and training to the ensemble, having studied with the Tokyo, Takacs, Guarneri, American, Miami and Emerson Quartets. 

Website: https://www.fiatoquartet.com


The Edendale Branch Library (LAPL) address is 

2011 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026,

but enter from the Alvarado St. side through the library parking lot. 

Email eden@lapl.org for more information.


Program Notes:

We will start the program with a quartet by Franz Joseph Haydn, who was known as the father of the string quartet. Haydn wrote 68 string quartets. This quartet is Haydn’s 2nd quartet from his op. 33 set of 6 quartets, published in 1782. Haydn described these quartets as being written in a new and special way. One new and special feature of these quartets is the fact that in all 6, Haydn wrote a Scherzo instead of the typical Minuet movement. Scherzo literally means “joke,” and this 2nd quartet has been nicknamed “The Joke.” You will soon see why. The first movement begins with lots of playful banter between the instruments. The Scherzo has a trio which sounds as though the 2nd violinist is playing a broken Hurdy-gurdy, and the first violinist has had too much to drink. This is followed by a beautiful, somewhat serious slow movement, but Haydn, the jokester, comes back in the 4th movement where he brings home the punch line.

 

Antonin Dvorak was born in 1841 to a village butcher, so he left school at the age of eleven

to learn the family trade. Lucky for him and for us, it became apparent that he was more

talented as a violinist than a butcher, and he did not cut off any fingers, so his parents sent him to music school in Prague. After graduation, he joined the Prague National Theater Orchestra, and later in his career, Dvorak became the director of the National Conservatory in New York City. In 1893 he decided to take a vacation from his post at the Conservatory, and went to stay in a Czech community in Spillville, Iowa. It was during this vacation that he wrote this quartet. He

composed the quartet in just 13 days. He was very pleased with the result and Dvorak is

quoted as saying “When I wrote this quartet, I wanted to write something for once that

was very melodious and straightforward and dear Papa Haydn kept appearing before my

eyes, and that is why it all turned out so simply.” This quartet is in 4 movements. The first movement is reminiscent of Czech music, and the beautiful 2nd movement is based on an African American spiritual. The 3rd movement contains Dvorak’s interpretation of the bird call of a scarlet tanager which would drive him crazy on his nature walks in Spillville. The last movement has an underlying rhythmical figure, representing the train he took to Iowa.

 

Upcoming concert in this series:

Saturday, JUNE 14, 2025 at Noon – 1:00pm

Judicanti Responsura     https://roperarts.com/judi.html

William Roper-tuba- composer

Joseph Mitchell- percussion- composer



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