The Westport Arts Center continues its tradition of presenting young, vibrant performing groups as part of their chamber music series. On Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 8:00 p.m., the Brooklyn Rider Quartet will perform Joseph Haydn's Quartet in C, Op. 54, No. 2, Philip Glass' String Quartet No. 4, Vartabed Komitas' Armenian Folk Songs, Cafe Tacuba, arranged by Osvaldo Golijov, and Colin Jacobsen's Brooklesca in the gallery area of the Arts Center. The music coupled with the artistic surroundings should provide an interesting amalgam of the visual and the aural. The current exhibit on display is "Home: The Architecture of Perception, Imagination & Memory."
The Brooklyn Rider Quartet, comprised of violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Cords, and cello Eric Jacobsen aims to engage the audience and to educate and explore the music's intrinsic characteristics and qualities. These musicians took part in Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble and embrace non-traditional western music and various types of world music.
The curators of the chamber music series are Westport natives Russell Platt and Alexander Platt. Russell Platt, a composer and a senior music editor for The New Yorker, will give a pre-concert talk at 7:30 p.m. Artistic advisor Alexander Platt serves as conductor and music director for the Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, New York.
