Brooklyn Rider: Citizenship Notes

HAYDN: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20 No. 5 ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN: Our Children Speak English and Spanish DON BYRON: String Quartet No. 3 TED HEARNE: We Are Working Tirelessly For A Ceasefire BOB DYLAN, arr. Colin Jacobsen: The Times They Are A-Changin’ Johnny Gandelsman, violin Colin Jacobsen, violin Nicholas Cords, viola Michael Nicolas, cello “They are four classical musicians performing with the energy of young rock stars jamming on their guitars, a Beethoven-goes-indie foray into making classical music accessible but also celebrating why it was good in the first place.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Hailed as “the future of chamber music” (Strings), the Grammy-nominated string quartet Brooklyn Rider presents eclectic repertoire and gripping performances that continue to draw rave reviews from classical, world, and rock critics alike. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” The 2019-20 season saw a veritable explosion of new projects and releases. Shared at the height of the coronavirus global pandemic, Healing Modes (In A Circle Records) presents Beethoven’s towering Opus 132 - the composer’s seminal meditation on healing and the restorative power of new creation - interwoven with five new commissions poignantly exploring healing through topics as wide-ranging as the US-Mexico border conflict, the Syrian refugee crisis, mental health, and physical well-being. Composers include Reena Esmail, Gabriela Lena Frank, Matana Roberts, along with recent Pulitzer Prize winners Caroline Shaw and Du Yun. Earlier in the season saw the release of collaborative albums with the master Irish fiddler Martin Hayes (In A Circle Records) - an album which the Irish Times described as “a masterclass in risk-taking” - and Sun On Sand (Nonesuch Records), featuring the music of Patrick Zimmerli with saxophone giant Joshua Redman and fellow collaborators Scott Colley bass and Satoshi Takeishi, percussion