IN SEARCH OF CASSADÓ’S LEGACY WITH: APPALACHIAN CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYERS

Name: IN SEARCH OF CASSADÓ’S LEGACY WITH: APPALACHIAN CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYERS
Start: 2025-10-05T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-05T20:30:00-04:00
Location: The Station At Shepherdstown

Schedule

Sun Oct 05 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Station At Shepherdstown | Shepherdstown, WV

Tickets:
https://app.tickettailor.com/events/acmf/1847361
A unique opportunity to hear ACMF musicians outside of festival season as they stop off in Shepherdstown for one night in their USA tour!
Featured nationally on NPR in 2023, the Lost in Plain Sight project celebrates the music and legacy of Catalan composer and cellist, Gaspar Cassadó. Cassadó, who was highly influenced by the sounds of the early 20th century (think Ravel and Granados) has much to offer the world of chamber music. This concert will also offer a rare performance of the unpublished String Quartet No. 3.
Performers:
Domenic Salerni, violin
Chris Jusell, violin
Danielle Wiebe-Burke, viola
Katie Tertell, cello
Rosi Song, speaker

Program:
Introduction and talk with Professor Rosi Song
Cassadó: Quartet No. 1
Boccherini: String Quartet in G minor op. 32 No. 5
-intermission-
Cassadó: Quartet No. 3

"Lost in Plain Sight” is an international humanities project exploring the life, legacy and work of 20th century Spanish cellist and composer, Gaspar Cassadó, contextualizing his music in a dynamic concert and lecture experience, featuring chamber players from the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival.
Regarded as one of the top cellists of the 20th century, Gaspar Cassadó's name and history remain mostly forgotten in Spain and abroad. An early advocate for the modern cello, he played an active role in trying to expand the repertoire for cellists, composing and collaborating with composers of his time like Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-75) who dedicated a concerto to him. Today, his name remains connected to that of his world-famous teacher, Pablo Casals (1876-1973), and fraught by the complicated legacy of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). As part of a research project to recover his legacy while examining what could be identified or understood as a “Spanish sound” in 20th century classical music, this concert presents a combination of lecture and performance, where the audience is invited to learn about the life and work of Cassadó in conversation with the work of other composers. The project is led by Dr. H Rosi Song and Katie Tertell and is supported in part by a Research Impact Award through Durham University (UK).