Posts Tagged ‘Isaac Allen’
Hausmann Quartet Explores the Galaxy with David Ludwig, Beethoven and Haydn
If you are puzzled to learn that the Hausmann Quartet’s November 11 Sunday program at the Maritime Museum of San Diego was planned around the outer space probes of Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, you probably lack the imagination of the four clever Hausmann musicians. But you will discover the relationship of the three composers mentioned in the headline when you read the review.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet’s Adventurous Haydn Voyage with Reich’s ‘Different Trains’ and a Stephen Prutsman Premiere
Sunday, September 16, the Hausmann Quartet boldly set sail on the on the next leg of its Haydn Voyages at the San Diego Maritime Museum’s ferry Berkeley. The quartet’s rich program included an exciting new commissioned piece for the ensemble by the American composer Stephen Prutsman.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Presents Luminous Account of Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words’ at St. Paul’s Cathedral
The Hausmann Quartet performed Haydn’s most unusual string quartet, “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” Op. 51, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral on March 23, an ideal ambience in which to contemplate the composer’s exalted Lenten meditation.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Spans the Centuries Gracefully at the Maritime Museum of San Diego
Sunday (February 25), the Hausmann Quartet embarked on another year of its “Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime,” playing string quartets by Haydn, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Tina Tallon on the museum’s ferryboat Berkeley
Read MoreSan Diego Opera’s Production of Kaminsky’s Moving, Brilliant ‘As One’
San Diego Opera presents Laura Kaminsky’s 2014 opera “As One”–a transfixing production featuring two magnificent singers and the ebullient Hausmann Quartet–at the Joan B. Kroc Theatre . . .
Read MoreThe Hausmann Quartet Unleashes Humor and Profundity in Haydn
Adjacent to the ticket table at the Hausmann Quartet’s Sunday (September 17) Haydn Voyages concert stood a chalkboard marking the string quartet’s progress: 17.6% of the composer’s 68 string quartets performed thus far. That our local string quartet—Hausmann is in residence at San Diego State University—is serious about traversing Haydn’s complete string quartet repertory and…
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