Miró Quartet with Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

Sunday, November 18, 2012; 4:00 pm

Hailed by the New York Times as possessing "explosive vigor and technical finesse", the dynamic Miró Quartet will join American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke in a performance including works by Barber, Crumb and Copland. Cooke starred as Kitty Oppenheimer in the Metropolitan Opera's premier of John Adam's Doctor Atomic, which won the 2012 Grammy for Best Opera Recording.

Concert Program:

• Wolf, Italian Serenade
• Wolf/Largess, Mörike Lieder (5 selections)
• Puccini, Crisantemi
• Respighi, Il Tramonto, "The Sunset," P. 101 for voice and string quartet
• Barber, Dover Beach, Op. 3
• Barber, Quartet in B minor, Op. 11
• Crumb, Three Early Songs (1947)
• Copland/Largess, Old American Songs (3 selections)

PROGRAM NOTES (PDF)

Artists' Web Sites:

http://www.miroquartet.com/

http://sashacooke.com/