{"id":28033,"date":"2013-11-02T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T16:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=28033"},"modified":"2013-11-02T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T16:46:42","slug":"rishonim-quartet-at-the-open-university-noon-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=28033","title":{"rendered":"Rishonim Quartet at the Open University \u2013 Noon Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RishonimStringQuartet\" target=\"_blank\">Rishonim String Quartet<\/a> \u2013 comprised of violinists Yaron Prensky and Dotan Netel, violist Irit Livne and cellist Raz Cohen \u2013 will be the stars of Sunday&#8217;s Noon Concert at the Open University. Take a midday break and enjoy two beautiful chamber works: Beethoven&#8217;s <em>String Quartet in A minor<\/em> and Hugo Wolf&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Italian Serenade<\/em>&#8220;, along with an introduction of each work by musicologist Anat Sharon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28034\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1393947_212572855579030_1011907752_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28034 \" alt=\"Rishonim String Quartet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1393947_212572855579030_1011907752_n.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1393947_212572855579030_1011907752_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1393947_212572855579030_1011907752_n-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rishonim String Quartet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>String Quartet in A Minor<\/em> (No. 15, opus 132) was written in 1825, near the end of Beethoven&#8217;s life, after he had suffered a bout of ill health. He had moved to Baden, a suburb of Vienna, for his convalescence. By this point he was entirely deaf and suffering from intense bouts of pain; still, he managed to write a number string quartets that year.<\/p>\n<p>The A minor is the second string quartet Beethoven wrote for Count Nicolai Galitzin, an amateur cellist and one of the composer&#8217;s biggest fans. The diversity between each of the quartet&#8217;s five movements and the emotion each one conveys continue to fascinate musicians and listeners to this day \u2013 particularly the slow third movement, called <em>Heiliger Dankgesang<\/em>, or &#8220;Holy Song of Thanks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Wolf&#8217;s <em>Italian Serenade in G major<\/em>, written in 1887 over the course of three days. He was working on a musical setting of poems by the German Romantic poet Joseph Eichendorff, and was inspired by an Italian serenade described in a novella by Eichendorff. It&#8217;s a short work in one movement, possibly based on an old Italian tune.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will be held tomorrow, Sunday November 3, at 13:00 at the Chais Auditorium on the Open University campus (1 University Road, Ra\u2019anana).<\/p>\n<p>Tickets cost only 25 NIS and can be ordered by phone at *3337 or 03-5114412, or via website (in Hebrew): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openu.ac.il\/noonconcert2\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.openu.ac.il\/noonconcert2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rishonim String Quartet \u2013 comprised of violinists Yaron Prensky and Dotan Netel, violist Irit Livne and cellist Raz Cohen \u2013 will be the stars of Sunday&#8217;s Noon Concert at the Open University. Take a midday break and enjoy two beautiful chamber works: Beethoven&#8217;s String Quartet in A minor and Hugo Wolf&#8217;s &#8220;Italian Serenade&#8220;, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}