Daedalus Quartet Concert!
Take a break for hell week and join your associate faculty director and your faculty fellows for a restoring and soothing classical music concert at the nearby Van Pelt Library! If you have never set foot on its beautiful sixth-floor Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, this is your chance! This specific concert, titled "Hearing Women’s Voices", is a Sachs Program for Arts Innovation grant-funded project from the Daedalus Quartet that amplifies lesser-known gems of the string quartet literature. Listeners will become better acquainted with works from Americans Marion Bauer and Amy Beach, as well as from Germaine Tailleferre, a French composer with war time ties to Philadelphia. The Daedalus Quartet (Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul, violins; Jessica Thompson, viola; Tom Kraines, cello) has served as the University of Pennsylvania's resident string quartet since 2006. Internationally acclaimed as one of the foremost chamber ensembles performing today, since winning the top prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2001, the Daedalus Quartet has impressed critics and listeners alike with the security, technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances. While at Penn, the Daedalus has also achieved renown for its investigations of the links between music and other fields of human endeavor, including neuroscience, literature, theater, and social dynamics. In addition to working closely with student performers and composers, the quartet also brings live music to the classroom at Penn, performing the great works of the repertoire and discussing their relevance to the modern mind. We will be leaving KCECH by 6 pm to attend the brief pre-concert talk and then the concert itself. Please email Lidia (lleon@upenn.edu) if you want to come along, as we'll need to reserve our seats. We hope you do!
