Ancora String Quartet with Melinda Paulsen

The Ancora Quartet just returned from our first overseas tour.  We are partnering with a wonderful mezzo-soprano, Melinda Paulsen, who serves on the voice faculty at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt.  Together, we have prepared a program of works by German and American composers, for string quartet, and for mezzo and quartet.

We spent 10 days in Germany, performing at concert halls , churches, a town hall, and a music school, in Nieder-Olm, Frankfurt, Vellmar, Schlitz  and St. Goar on the Rhine .  

Melinda arrives in Madison in early September, and we will perform this same program in concert venues around the state of Wisconsin. A certain amount of funding from German organizations is for thcoming, and we have secured a grant also from the Kassel County-Dane County sister county taskforce. Professor Paulsen  and the members of this quartet are thrilled that this project has   tak en shape, and we are thrilled  to shar e with our audiences a program exploring the intersections between two cultures that are quite distinct today, but which share deep, common roots.

September 4 - 9: venues in Wisconsin

• Tuesday, 9/4 at 7:00 pm at Capitol Lakes Grand Hall

• Wednesday, 9/5 at 12:00 pm on The Midday on WPR; at 6:00 pm at Germantown Community Library, Germantown

• Thursday, 9/6 at 7:30 pm at Light Recital Hall, UW-Whitewater

• Friday, 9/7, at 7:30 pm at the Janesville Women’s Club 

• Saturday, 9/8, at 7:30 pm at Eaton Chapel, Beloit College

• Sunday, 9/9 at 7:30 pm at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Madison

Program:

Dover Beach ... Samuel Barber

Drei Lieder (Three Songs)  ... Viktor Ullmann

Melancholie, Op. 13  ... Paul Hindemith

Intermission

Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11 ... Samuel Barber

Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91 (arr. Stefan Heucke) ... Richard Wagner

All performances are free and open to the public except for:

Thu. 9/6 at Whitewater: adults ($8), seniors over 65 ($6), children under 18 ($5.50), and UW-Whitewater students with a valid ID ($5.50)

Sun. 9/9 at St. Andrew's in Madison:  $15/general, $12/seniors & students, $6 children under 12