Chamber Music Festival Of The Black Hills - Spirituals and Beethoven

Mexican Monterey composed for the 100th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson came through South Dakota in 1879?

Next is Elegy, a work by Haitian/American composer Lee Holdridge. You may recognize his music if you have ever watched skating in the Olympics, movies such as Mr. Mom, Splash, and TV shows Eight is Enough, Moonlighting, and of course the made for TV series, East of Eden.

Price: Selection of folk songs and spirituals by Florence Price a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works.

Beethoven: a masterpiece in the quartet repertoire. Beethoven's response to a violinist complaining of the difficulty, "who cares of the difficulty when the spirit moves me."

Program:

"Spirituals and Beethoven"

Mexican Monterey - Savourna Stevenson

Elegy for harp and strings - Lee Holdridge

Negro Folk Songs in Counterpoint - Florence B. Price

Go Down Moses
Joshua Fit de Battle
Little David
Somebody's Knockin
​Shortin Bread
​Swing Low

Intermission

​String Quartet #3 Op. 59 - Ludwig van Beethoven

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