UAA Recital Hall: Made in America

Friday, August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM

America shows off its musical talents! Listen for “the old ragtime stuff” and a whole bunch of American tunes in Charles Ives’s barnyard second violin sonata. Leonard Bernstein soars with a song from his musical Peter Pan, and David Diamond lifts American spirits during the darkest days of the Second World War. Award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery’s work for string quartet, Strum, is our new music feature of the season. The program concludes with Barber’s poignant string quartet (including his famous Adagio) reimagined in a setting for string orchestra.

PROGRAM

Leonard BERNSTEIN: “Dream With Me”
Charles IVES:  Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
David DIAMOND: Rounds for String Orchestra 
Sergei PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 
Jessie MONTGOMERY: Strum 
Samuel BARBER: String Quartet

ARTISTS

Chad Burrow (clarinet)
Amy I-Lin Cheng and David Fung (piano)
Minju Kim, Luri Lee, Christine Harada Li, Boson Mo, Zachary Spontak and Elizabeth Dickenson (violin)
Edwin Kaplan and Hezekiah Leung (viola)
Nathan Chan, Nathaniel Pierce and Pierre Derycz (cello)
Paul Sharpe (bass)
Nathaniel Pierce (tenor)

All ACMF concerts are General Admission.