Four musicians performing in a string quartet setting on a wooden stage facing each other, two playing violins, one playing the cello, and one reading sheet music while playing the viola.

Storytelling & Memory

Tanglewood Music Center’s Fromm Quartet

Friday, August 2, 2024 at 7PM

EMPAC Concert Hall

Dates + Tickets

Join Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for Storytelling & Memory, a concert featuring Tanglewood Music Center’s Fromm Quartet. The event, free and open to the public, includes works by composers Tania León and Steven Mackey, as well as a conversation on the latest advances in Alzheimer’s research, and on translating memory into music, with Rensselaer faculty Dr. Chunyu Wang and Dr. Robert Whalen.

Tania León and Steven Mackey serve on Tanglewood's composition faculty and are co-directors of the Festival of Contemporary Music. Chunyu Wang is professor in the School of Science at Rensselaer, and is nationally recognized for his research in Alzheimer’s. Robert Whalen is lecturer of music and conducting at Rensselaer, where he directs the Rensselaer Orchestra, Concert Choir, and Wind Symphony.

Amadeus Julian Regucera, music curator at EMPAC, introduces the program’s discussion.

Fromm Quartet
James Gikas, violin
Tiffany Wee, violin
James Cunningham IV, viola
Benjamin Lanners, cello

Program

CUARTETO NO. 2 (2011) — Tania León (b. 1943)
I. Soy (I am)
II. De vez en cuando (Once in a while)
III. Son retazos (They are fragments)
THE GIFT OF TIME
A conversation between Dr. Chunyu Wang and Dr. Robert Whalen on the latest advances in Alzheimer’s research and translating memory into music. Introduction by Dr. Amadeus Julian Regucera.
ONE RED ROSE (2013) — Steven Mackey (b. 1956)
I. Five Short Studies
II. Fugue and Fantasy
III. Anthem and Aria