MOUNT VERNON — The Georgia Guitar Quartet opens Cornell College’s 12th season of Music Mondays Oct. 12 with a diverse program ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the 21st century.
Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.
The program at Cornell includes more traditional works by Praetorius, Scarlatti, Chopin, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, and Grieg, as well as “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” by Radiohead, and the traditional Irish piece “The Road to Lisdoonvarna.”
Borrowing from both the past and present, the Georgia Guitar Quartet draws inspiration from a wide variety of influences, from classical masters to experimentalists to contemporary rock icons. The Quartet has been featured on American Public Media’s “Performance Today” and has released four critically acclaimed recordings, the most recent consisting exclusively of music composed by the Georgia Guitar Quartet.
The rest of the 2009-10 Music Mondays schedule is:
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
Tiempo Libre, a Cubin-Latin group
Monday, Feb. 8, 2010
Quink, five-member Dutch a cappella vocal ensemble
Monday, March 8, 2010
The all-female Moscow String Quartet