Arianna String Quartet: Sounds of Cinema

Name: Arianna String Quartet: Sounds of Cinema
Start: 2025-05-09T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 1 Touhill Circle, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63121

Schedule

Fri, 09 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1 Touhill Circle, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63121 | Maryland Heights, MO

Janacek: Quartet No.2, “Intimate Letters”
Shaw: “Valencia” (2012)
Korngold: Piano Quintet in E Major, Op.15, with Judith Gordon, piano
Doors to the theater open at 6:30 pm for a pre-show talk that begins at 6:45 pm. The show starts at 7:30 pm.
Music and movies go together so seamlessly, that we sometimes can’t tell which medium is leading the drama and expression; is it the sound or the imagery? In an evening dedicated to three composers whose work has influenced and appeared in movies, the ASQ invites you on a journey of spectacular music conjuring story, characters, and mood. Heard as part of the sizzling soundtrack to 1988’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, Janacek’s Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” depicts a story of one man’s love, passion, and obsessive devotion to the woman of his dreams. Next, American composer Caroline Shaw’s distinctive sound has taken the musical world by storm, both on stage and in film offering a unique blend of complexity and hope through the colorful imagery that her music evokes. Erich Korngold’s luscious musical scores for movies from the 1930’s and 1940’s were some of the first to bring true compositional genius into partnership with cinema. To close their 2024-25 St. Louis season, the ASQ welcomes celebrated pianist Judith Gordon back to the series for a performance of Korngold’s seldom heard Piano Quintet, Op.15, a sensational work that promises to take you on a journey guided by your own imagination!