Weekend Concert Series
Sphinx Virtuosi
Sunday, April 3, 2022 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Sunday, April 3, 2022 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Xavier Foley, Ev’ry Voice (2020)
Florence Price, String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (1935)
II. Andante Cantabile
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Four Novelletten (1903)
I. Allegro moderato
III. Andante con moto
Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981), Banner for quartet and string orchestra (2014)
Andrea Casarrubios (b. 1988), SEVEN for solo cello (2020)
Ricardo Herz (b. 1978), Inocente (2018) and Mourinho (2004)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Concerto per corde, op. 33 (1965)
IV. Finale furioso
The Sphinx Virtuosi, an electrifying ensemble of 18 leading Black and Latinx soloists, returns to the Gardner performing works that explore the unity and division of our world. Opening with Xavier Foley’s Ev’ry Voice, written in 2020 to pay tribute to the Black National Anthem amidst tragedy, uncertainty, and hope, the program features works by Jessie Montgomery, Alberto Ginastera, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, as well as a string orchestra arrangement of Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2, which received its Boston Premiere at the Gardner in 2019.
While the City of Boston’s vaccination and mask mandates are lifted for general museum visits, the Gardner maintains its proof of vaccination and mask requirements for free and ticketed events in Calderwood Hall. Please visit the Know Before You Go web page for additional information, including accepted forms of documentation. Please contact the Box Office at 617 278 5156 for further assistance.
Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Choose from two seating sections.
Adults $45, seniors $40, members $35, students & children ages 7-17 $20 (children under 7 not admitted).
Adults $40, seniors $35, members $30,students & children ages 7-17 $20 (children under 7 not admitted).
For sold-out performances, standby tickets may be available in the lobby no earlier than one hour before the performance begins. We cannot guarantee the availability of standby tickets for sold-out performances.
This program is performed in memory of James Lawrence.
Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; Marie Louise and David Scudder Concert; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.