Event
PennMusic and the School of Arts and Sciences are pleased to present:
Penn Chamber III
David Yang, music director
About the Program
Migration
Penn chamber will host a special concert of chamber music of composers who were either forced to leave their homelands or who left voluntarily. Composers include Erick Wolfgang Korngold (born Austria, moved to USA), Paul Hindemith (born Germany, moved to Switzerland, then USA) , Igor Stravinsky (born Russia, moved to France, then USA), Béla Bartók (born Hungary, moved to USA). The concert culminates with Steve Reich’s seminal work “Different Trains” for string quartet and tape.
Igor Stravinsky - Five Easy Pieces for piano four hands
Béla Bartók: string quartet No. 2 (first movement)
Paul Hindemith - Sonata for piano four hands (complete)
Erick Wolfgang Korngold - Piano Quintet in E Major, Opus 15 (complete)
Steve Reich - “Different Trains” for string quartet and tape