Mount Royal University Theatres Tickets

Carmen Braden
"Bridge Between the Earth and Sky" for String Quartet
Cecilia Livingston
"After the Wind"
Vincent Ho
"Twin Tornadoes"

Mozart
Divertimento for Strings in D Major K. 136
Allegro
Andante 
Presto

Dinuk Wijeratne 
Pop Song on Antique Poem (2015) 
A letter from the After-life 


I sent my Soul through the Invisible, 
Some letter of that After-life to spell:  
And by and by my Soul return’d to me,  And answer’d “I Myself am Heav’n and Hell” 

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)
trans. Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)

From the composer… I sought to create my own kind of ‘collision of old and new’, where the beauty and meaning of vintage poems might inspire the kind of loops, grooves, and catchy tunes heard in Pop. The melodies are, in fact, settings of the poem texts with the words stripped away. Contained in ‘A Letter from the After-life’ are two quotes from Schubert’s Death & the Maiden quartet. Ironically, they struck me as being Pop-like and so I allowed them to emerge as though improvised; then to be improvised upon. - Dinuk Wijeratne 

Intermission

Beethoven 
String Quartet no. 14 in c# minor Op. 131
Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
Allegro molto vivace
Allegro moderato – Adagio
Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile – Più mosso – Andante moderato e lusinghiero – Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio, ma non troppo e semplice – Allegretto
Presto
Adagio quasi un poco andante
Allegro