Chapel Hill, NC (Select String Quartets with Brooklyn Rider)

October 4, 2024 – 8pm

Join us for a weekend-long celebration of the shared 20th anniversaries of both Brooklyn Rider and Carolina Performing Arts. A previous seven-time CPA performer, Brooklyn Rider will pay tribute to Philip Glass at our first-ever performance presented at The Chapel of the Cross on October 4. Then, on October 6, join Brooklyn Rider at Memorial Hall for a 3 p.m. matinee of The Sandbox of Invention.

A principal figure of the American minimalist movement, Glass’ works for string quartet have found inspiration from Shakespeare to Beckett, from the life of Yukio Mishima to the legend of Dracula, and from Schubert to Bach. Taken as a whole, the string quartets document a key aesthetic development in American music and display a unique and inimitable spirit that powerfully encapsulates our time. 

“Nearly two decades ago, the string quartets of Philip Glass were integral in our nascent days as Brooklyn Rider. The glowing resonances and rich emotional depth of this music coaxed us towards an ever more collective spirit in those formative years. While immersed in this world, our sensitivities for blend, transparency, and tone color – three of the most essential string quartet ingredients – were greatly heightened. The synergistic combination of interlocking patterns and elemental harmonies also invited broader connections as we shaped our identity as a string quartet: the gossamer-like inner voices of Schubert, the pulsating energy of our home base, New York City, or drone-based textures present in a wide web of world music traditions. All of this has led to a lasting relationship between Brooklyn Rider and this sonically diverse music, with the quartets serving time and time again as touchstones for our work on stage and in the recording studio.” – Brooklyn Rider