This program pairs two works that underscore Stephen Prina’s recombinant approach to art. String Quartet for Six Players takes the first movement of Mozart’s String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor as source material. Prina introduces two significant modifications into Mozart’s composition: doubling the violin parts and incorporating the roll of a six-sided die. Influenced by the Fluxus movement, Prina applies chance and indeterminacy to sonata-allegro, one of the most fundamental forms of Western classical music. The Way He Always Wanted It XI is a flute sextet using a melody programmed for player piano by the architect, painter, and composer Bruce Goff.
New York premiere of String Quartet for Six Players
String Quartet for Six Players (1976)
Either/Or
Chris McIntyre, conductor
Leah Asher, violin
Lauren Cauley, violin
Pala Garcia, violin
Josh Henderson, violin
Kal Sugatski, viola
John Popham, cello
The Way He Always Wanted It XI (2013)
Chris McIntyre, conductor
Eva Ding, flute
Brandon Patrick George, flute
Samantha Kochis, flute
Margaret Lancaster, flute
Jessica Schmitz, flute
Alice Teyssier, flute
Previous performances of String Quartet for Six Players: Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria (premiere); Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; Fundación arteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; JUBG, Cologne, Germany
Previous performances of The Way He Always Wanted It XI: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA (premiere); The Kitchen, New York, NY
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