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Composer Peter Schickele joins the Armadillo String Quartet
Barry Socher and Steve Scharf, violins
Raymond Tischer, viola, and Armen Ksajikian, cello
presenting the
15th Annual Music by Peter Schickele Concert
Celebrating 25 years together — the Haydn Marathon, the Grand Canyon concert river trips, the Hong Kong tour, P.D.Q. Bach at Carnegie Hall, and more —
the Quartet welcomes Schickele again to Southern California for two
performances this year. Peter and the Armadillos will be joined by
guest artists clarinetist Michelle Zukovsky and pianist Guy Hallman in a
program which will include:
String Quartet No. 1 “American Dreams”
Serenade for Three for violin, clarinet and piano, and
Elegies for clarinet and piano
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Two Performances
 | Monday, April 4, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
Dabney Lounge • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Free Admission—sponsored by the Caltech Student Chamber Music ProgramFor
directions, check the Caltech map:
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http://www.caltech.edu/map/ |
| then click on “map of the Caltech campus” in first sentence |
| then choose Dabney Hall in list at bottom of page and zoom
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| Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
Contrapuntal Performance Hall • private home in Brentwood
Admission $20, Seniors [60+] and Students $15 |
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For ticket information, reservations and location call 310-446-6358
or e-mail armadillo4@aol.com for reservations with name, phone number and number of tickets in each
category. Tickets will be available at the box office the night of the performance.
The Armadillo’s new Web site is at
http://www.armadillostringquartet.com.
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About the Armadillo String Quartet
The Armadillo String Quartet is one of Los Angeles’s premier chamber music groups, performing concerts in various venues locally and in other parts of the world.
Their 1997 World Tour took them to Pasadena, Bel Air, Hong Kong and Eagle Rock, and December, 1999 found them in New York for the premiere of P.D.Q.
Bach’s “Moose” Quartet at Carnegie Hall. The versatile ensemble is known for its varied repertoire:
from baroque to classical to romantic to contemporary music; from serious music to humorous music;
from concert music to popular music; from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Founded in 1980, the Armadillos have appeared in many established chamber music series in the Los Angeles area and have been featured at several festivals in Southern California.
They have also produced their own concerts which have included a 34½-hour marathon concert of the complete quartets of Josef Haydn and, since 1991, annual concerts of the chamber music of Peter Schickele.
After the 10th annual ‘SchickelFest’ in March, 2000, Mark Swed wrote in the
Los Angeles Times, “The performances were ever appealing. The Armadillos and their friends gave the heartening impression that they had become musicians just so that they would enjoy evenings like this.”
The musicians of the quartet have performed with most of the major music organizations in the Los Angeles area as well as a number of minor ones.
They have concertized extensively as solo and chamber music and orchestral performers and have participated in music festivals and armadillo races throughout North America, Europe and parts of Asia.
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Works on the Program
| Serenade for Three (1992) for clarinet, violin, and piano |
| Elegies (1974) for clarinet and piano |
| String Trio (1960) |
| Little Suite for Summer (1977) for piano four hands |
| Viola Dreams (1997) for string quartet |
| String Quartet No. 1 “American Dreams” (1983)
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Previous Concert Reviews
| “I know that two hours of [Schickele’s music] came together last week to form a modestly challenging, eminently satisfying, feel-good sort of concert.
We could use more of the same.” “...a good time was had, I think, by
all.”
—Alan Rich, April, 1998, L.A. Weekly
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| “First and foremost, they like to have a good time;...”
“...there were no ironies or jokes in the concluding [Schickele] Elegy,...”
“...barnyard tunes and classical snippets were woven together in a hilarious, deftly constructed bit of
tomfoolery.” “Finally, the Armadillos turned serious again with a
vengeance,...”
—Richard S. Ginell, December, 2000, Los Angeles Times |
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