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“What if we set all of the instruments on fire?” This wild idea came up during one of our brainstorming sessions and it made us giggle, repeatedly. Knowing that setting people’s instruments on fire would be a sure way to get disinvited from the festival, we instead spent time exploring what was interesting, exciting, and provocative about the idea and allowed it to lead us to other ideas.
When the quartet preparing this piece for Chamber 2.0 2019 met with the team, they shared that they love this music and get excited about it – and wished their friends were as excited to see them perform this as they would be to see a Destiny's Child concert. Everything started to click and a new vision - inspired by the original “setting instruments on fire” - started coming together.
A walk-on video (like you might see at a big arena concert) got the crowd hyped for their entrance. An enormous video projecting images of fire was behind them as they played, and to top it all off, we layered a trap beat under the music, creating a true earworm!
Grieg Fire in the Kogod.MTSString Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato
Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Developed by:
Camille Jones
Rachel Lufseged
Edna Pierce
Julie Sharp
Madeline Merwin
John Horzen
Chamber 2.0, 2019
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