Laudholm Live: Cassatt String Quartet

We are excited to welcome the Cassatt String Quartet to the Wells Reserve for an afternoon of classical and jazz music in the barn. Doors open at 2:30pm, concert begins at 3pm. Beer, wine, and soft drinks will be available for purchase before the performance.

About the Cassatt Quartet

Hailed for its “mighty rapport and relentless commitment” and for its active role in diversifying string quartet repertoire, the Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for four decades, with appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Tanglewood Music Center, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Centro National de las Artes (Mexico), Maeda Hall (Japan), and Beijing’s Central Conservatory.

The Cassatt String Quartet celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024-2025 with premieres by Joan Tower, Victoria Bond, Mari Kimura and Shirish Korde, all written for the group. The season includes a tour of Italy with guitarist Eliot Fisk, concerts across the United States, residencies at major universities and conservatories, the CSQ's bi-annual Cassatt in the Basin residency in West Texas, and the Seal Bay Festival in Maine.

The quartet’s discography of over 40 titles includes music by Steven Stucky, Daniel S. Godfrey, Gerald Cohen, Sebastian Currier, and Samuel Adler with albums on Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels. Cassatt’s concerts have been broadcast nationally on the public radio program Performance Today, CBC Radio, and Radio France, and regionally on WGBH in Boston and WQXR and WNYC in New York. Its recordings have been featured numerous times in The New Yorker’s “10 Best Classical Recordings.”

The Cassatt String Quartet is violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower, violist Emily Brandenburg, and cellist Gwen Krosnick. The quartet is named for the celebrated American artist Mary Cassatt.

Program

From String Quartet #1 in G major (1929), Andante Moderato, Florence Price (1887-1953)

Amazing Grace (arr. 2020), Daniel Strong Godfrey (b.1949)

Cassatt String Quartet

God Bless the Child for voice and cello (2024), Shirish Korde (b.1945)

(after Billie Holiday and Eric Dolphy)
Dominique Eade, Jazz vocalist
Gwen Krosnick, cello

Moods of Ellington (2024) arr. Shirish Korde (b.1945)

(a suite of four arrangements based on Duke Ellington’s compositions)
1. Caravan
2. Where is the Music
3. Mood Indigo
4. Pyramid
Dominique Eade, jazz vocalist
Cassatt String Quartet
Peter Weitzner, bass