Quartet San Francisco — Programs
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 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSEducational concerts are fun, interactive and informative with Quartet San Francisco, which to date has performed hundreds of family and children’s concerts as well as college-level demonstrations, workshops and seminars (often in conjunction with concert performances). Their presentations vary in length and content, and are tailored to the audience age group. Each program delivers a wide range of musical information in a participatory, spontaneous format, including classical string quartet fare, original arrangements of jazz, tango, Disney and cartoon music. Programs are designed to fit the needs of each audience, whether they be introducing stringed instruments to children or improvisation to college students. The members of Quartet San Francisco illustrate how instruments are made and produce sound and demonstrate techniques for creating a colorful and fanciful variety of sounds and effects. Quartet members reveal how a string quartet puts together a piece of music; demonstrate the diverse techniques for performing tango, Latin, jazz and classical music; and discuss the history of the music they perform. Audience participation at a QSF educational concert is always encouraged! Quartet San Francisco also offers workshops in performance techniques for contemporary music composers and performers. Students of composition learn how to create traditional and cutting-edge techniques for stringed instruments, while focusing on works for string quartet in particular. Members of the quartet work with music performance students on chamber music pieces from all genres, collectively culminating their efforts in a semester-end performance. A fun and fascinating 45-minute program, “Sound!” explains how musical pitches are produced and how they communicate not only sound but emotion. The children learn how an instrument can produce amusing, sad, tender and startling sounds by means of vibration, percussion, and sheer inventiveness. The quartet members demonstrate the range of effects possible with and without the bow, show how stringed instruments are made using unfinished pieces from a violin maker, teach the children Italian musical terms and finish up with selections that include audience e participation and a healthy dollop of silly noises. With “Sound!”, Quartet San Francisco communicates the exhilarating fun of making music, showing the connection between recorded music the children have heard and the live music they play, and opening the door to the child’ s own creative impulse. |
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