From the DePauw University website:
Something to Write Home About invites you to create right alongside the multi-GRAMMY-nominated Spektral Quartet, penning postcards as they perform an elastic program spanning the 16th century up through today. Through recorded interviews, historic letters, and nimble storytelling, Spektral connects the composers, their music, and you the listener in an animated evening of shared creativity.
Custom-designed postcards featuring evocative visual art will be your canvas on which to write personal messages to family and friends, inspired by the music in the moment. Something to Write Home Abouttransforms a one-night event into a creative collaboration, the effects of which will ripple out for weeks to come. Just imagine the look on the face of a loved one, opening their mailbox and finding an unexpected, hand-written message from you.
Praised by The New Yorker magazine as providing the “...signal service of obliterating the dividing line between past and present, tradition and avant-garde…” Spektral Quartet offers this interactive experience as not only a melding of the head and heart, but an opportunity to celebrate the creative spirit in us all.
Audience members can collect custom-designed, printed postcards by participating in the DePauw ArtWalk, and other options will be available. Stay tuned for more information!
PROGRAM
Eliza Brown: String Quartet No. 1
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, L 85 Op. 10 – I. Animé et très décidé
Samuel Adams: String Quartet No. 2, Current – II. Fast, quiet, building
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 “Rosamunde” – II. Andante
Sufjan Stevens (arr. Gene Knific): Arnika
Tomeka Reid: Prospective Dwellers
Spektral Quartet’s programming is supported by our members, our donors, and by the following foundations and organizations:
