Women of Note

This concert, performed May 7, 2009 at the Boston Athenaeum, was the first phase of what will become a Melodic Vision multimedia production, exploring the music, lives, and history of select women composers.

String quartets by American composer Amy Beach and South African composer Priaulx Rainier

~~~

Musicians

Megumi Stohs and Rose Drucker, Violin

Rebecca Strauss, Viola

Rafael Popper-Keizer, Cello

~~~~

Program

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944)

String Quartet In One Movement, Op. 89 (1929)

Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986)

Quartet for Strings (1939)

Allegro molto serioso

Vivace leggiero grazioso

Andante tranquillo

Presto spiritoso

Click below to listen to sound clips from Amy Beach

String Quartet in One Movement

Click below to listen to sound clips from Priaulx Rainier Quartet for Strings

For more samples from our programs please to our

Movies and Sound Clips pages.