Partial String Quartet Scorecard For Home Games In The Nation's Capital April 4 to May 6, 2010

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STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces for String Quartet.
BARTÓK: Quartet no. 2
BARBER: String Quartet no. 1, op. 11
HOUGH: Requiem Aeternam (after Victoria) for String Sextet
WOLFE: Mink Stole
HARRISON: Quartet Set
ZORN: Cat o’ Nine Tails
VREBALOV: Pannonia Boundless
BURHANS: Library of Congress S.Q. commission
PINTSCHER: Study IV for Treatise on the Veil
MYERS: Dopamine
XENAKIS: Tetras
+ String Quartets by GLASS, LEON, SZYMANSKI, and UNG

Won't anyone be performing Charles Ives's Halloween for String Quartet and Piano (and Bass Drum, if available). He spent years working on it -- more years than he spent working on his Universe Symphony (Symphony #6).

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William Wiley
No Fault Insurance, 2006
Jacquard tapestry, rag and pigment button
55 x 78 in. Edition of 6

"William Wiley has produced a number of tapestries with the Magnolia Tapestry Project, depicting a host of mythic and politically charged figures with characteristically adventurous formal gusto. His latest, No Fault Insurance, considers the case of Amadou Diallo, a West African immigrant shot and killed by the NYPD in February of 2000 when he attempted to withdraw his wallet, which police officers claimed to have mistaken for a weapon. The officers were later acquitted of all charges. In Wiley's colorful tapestry, a bird-like character borrowed from Bosch skates on thin ice below the warped “bridge of justice,” under which a religious figure, a goblin, and an armed rat huddle in deliberation; a fallen black bird and an open wallet lie nearby. On the skating figure, whose mantle conspicuously bears an NYPD badge, Wiley has wryly pinned a button depicting the alchemical symbol for lead.

Text (c) Nick Stone

The copyright of all art images belongs to William Wiley, artist, and Magnolia Editions Inc.

(c) Magnolia Editions Inc. 2009. Copyright controlled.