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    RANDOM ACTS -- HAIL, HAIL, ARMENIA: THE VEM QUARTET

    Santa Fe New Mexican.com
    Nov 21 2014

    James M. Keller SantaFeNewMexican.com

    The VEM Quartet, which is the graduate string quartet in residence
    at UCLAĆ¢~@~J's Herb Alpert School of Music, is spearheading a
    new incentive there to raise the profile of Armenian musical
    traditions. When the group appears in Santa Fe, it accordingly
    includes among its offerings a set of Armenian Miniatures by the
    Armenian ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas (1869-1935). The
    foursome also plays Mendelssohn's Quartet in E minor (Op. 44, No. 2)
    and a movement from Lou Harrison's Quartet Set. Following intermission,
    former Santa Fean Stephanie Nagler (now as violinist, although she is
    the quartet's violist) is joined by a percussion ensemble from Santa
    Fe University of Art and Design for Harrison's Concerto for Violin
    and Percussion Orchestra, with Steve Paxton conducting. Although
    Harrison's modernist concerto, begun in 1940 and completed in 1959,
    most audibly reflects his interest in Southeast Asian music, it,
    too, has an Armenian connection; it was written for Anahid Ajemian,
    an American violinist of Armenian heritage, who played its premiere
    in 1961. The concert takes place at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22, at
    San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail. Tickets ($15, no charge
    for students) are available at the door.

    http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/music/classical_music/random-acts-hail-hail-armenia-the-vem-quartet/article_31c5c745-8e9c-570a-b9c2-1b7ec81bfb5b.html

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