HERBERGER
STRING QUARTET
Aihua Zhang and Vladimir Gebe, violin
Yen-Fang Chen, viola
Y eil Park, cello

STUDENT ENSEMBLE RECITAL SERIES
RECITAL HALL
TUESDAY, APRIL 26™, 2016 • 7:30 PM

"511. Herberger Institute
FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS

ARIZONA

STATE

UNIVERSITY

School of Music

Program

String Quartet no. 19 in C major "Dissonance," K. 465
I.
Adagio - Allegro
IL
Andante cantabile
III.
Menuetto: Allegro
IV.
Allegro molto

W.A. Mozart
(1756-1791)

**Intennission**

String Quartet no. 4, Sz. 91
I.
Allegro
II.
Prestissimo, con sordino
Non troppo lento
III.
IV.
Allegretto pizzicato
V.
Allegro molto

Bela Bart6k
(1881-1945)

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The Herberger String Quartet is the graduate string quartet of ASU's
School of Music. They have been coached under Professor Nancy Buck
and Professor Jonathan Swartz. Additionally, they have worked closely
with the Brentano String Quartet as a part of the Visiting Quartet Program
Residency and were invited to the Red Rocks Music Festival Winter
Chamber Music Institute, where they studied under Shmuel Ashkenasi,
Paul Coletti, David Erlich, and Thomas Landschoot.
Aihua Zhang is a student of Danwen Jiang, Vladimir Gebe is a student of
Katherine McLin, Yen-Fang Chen is a student of Nancy Buck, and Yeil
Park is a student of Thomas Landschoot.

Program notes written by Yeil Park

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart greatly respected and
enjoyed the friendship of Joseph Haydn, the "father
of the string quartet." In fact, Haydn would throw
chamber music parties during his visits to Vienna and
often asked Mozart to play viola with him. Haydn
was a mentor to Mozart and publicly spoke of high
praise of his musical genius; Mozart reciprocated
with his admiration of Haydn's string quartets, dedicating six quartets to
him.
Quartet no. 19 K. 465 was the last of the six "Haydn" quartets. Written in
1785, it earned its nickname "Dissonance" due to its turbulent beginning.
While most pieces composed in this time period used an introduction to
set the stage for the main tonality, Mozart creates quite the unsettled
atmosphere in the Adagio with sudden key changes and chromaticism.
The stormy tension stirred in the opening dissipates to an elegant
exposition full of charm and elegance.

Bela Bart6k is a Hungarian composer and one of
the pioneers of ethnomusicology. Perhaps driven
by nationalism sweeping through Europe and
many of the great Romantic composers drawing
inspiration from folklore, Bartok and composer
friend Zoltan Kodaly went out to the countryside
to collect and record old Magyar melodies. Their
discoveries led both to write music derived from
these tunes within a 20th century harmonic language.
Written in 1928, Bartok' s Fourth String Quartet is regarded by many as
one of his greatest compositions. This quartet is one of the earliest
examples of Bartok' s fascination of the arch fonn, a palindromic structure
tied together by the central third movement, which Bartok described as
the "kernel" of the entire work. Surrounding the capstone are the two
Scherzo movements, the first played with blazing speed and muted while
the second one played entirely pizzicato. The two outer movements
provide the anchor to the piece with a powerful opening and closing that
provide the outer shells of the structure.