Artistic Director and Conductor Dr. Julia Baumanis leads this concert with the ensemble's four principal string players featuring music that ranges from Revolutionary times to a premiere of a piece by David Rimelis inspired by Thomas Paine's The Crisis. Other works on the program include Charles Ives's String Quartet No. 1, that weaves hymns in and out of fugues and meditations using the boisterous compositional techniques characteristic of Ives, and John Cage's 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776, also based on traditional hymns and psalms that were sung in the colonial apartment during the time of the American Revolution. Throughout the performance, Revolutionary War historian Arthur Lefkowitz will take listeners through the Revolutionary years with a special focus on New Jersey.
There will be an encore broadcast of this program Saturday (11/7) at 3 pm.