Signature Series: Echoes of Places Past

• Presented By ECU A. J. Fletcher Music Center
• Dates October 18, 2024
• Time 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

$40 Individual Tickets Limited number of $10 Community Rush Tickets available on 10/14Our 25th Anniversary Season continues with a concert featuring two works that evoke a clear sense of place. Although it was written amidst what he described as the “lovely hot hot days” of summer, Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A Minor is anything but summery. Inspired by an ominous grove of bare trees in the English countryside, this work is by turns eerie, achingly nostalgic, and, eventually, jubilant. Equally rustic in inspiration is Antonín Dvo?ák’s String Quintet in E-flat Major, a work that resulted from a summer stay in Spillville, Iowa. This vibrant quintet, dubbed the “American,” combines Dvo?ák’s signature Czech style with plenty of new world influence.