2008-2009 Classical Program Offerings

DAVID KRAKAUER WITH THE ORION STRING QUARTET

Bernstein Artists is proud to announce that clarinetist David Krakauer will be a guest artist on tour with the Orion String Quartet* for the 2007-'08 season. The program features a new work by composer David Del Tredici commissioned specifically for Mr. Krakauer and the Orion String Quartet by Music Accord. Touring periouds available for this program (listed below) are: Oct 9-21 2007 and February 22-March 2, 2008. Bernstein Artists is thrilled to bring this new collaboration to presenters throughout the U.S.
Program:
HAYDN String Quartet (TBD)
DAVID DEL TREDICI Quintet
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OSVALDO GOLIJOV K'vakarat (1994)**
BEETHOVEN Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59, No. 3
*** Program Subject to Change ***
** Rosh Hashanah prayer originally written for Cantor and Quartet
* Orion String Quartet is represented by Kirshbaum Demler & Associates

DAVID KRAKAUER WITH STRING ORCHESTRA
Osvaldo Golijov's The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

Clarinetist David Krakauer, who recorded the seminal version of composer Osvaldo Golijov's 1994 work for string quartet and clarinet, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac The Blind, with the Kronos Quartet, is proud to offer the string orchestra version of the work for the 2007-2008 season. "[The Dreams and Prayers...] was inspired by the medieval rabbi known as Isaac the Blind, a mystic who believed that all things happen as the result of combinations of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Golijov uses the building blocks of music to tease the same cosmic mysteries in a work that echoes the joy and sorrow, the passion and reason of the entire Jewish experience. Sometimes the music rocks with the sound of klezmer, sometimes it merely, hypnotically seems to breathe. The Kronos Quartet's riveting recording with clarinetist David Krakauer makes it an unforgettable experience." -Gramophone