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SUMMARY:CASSATT STRING QUARTET RETURNS TO  SEAL BAY FESTIVAL\, MAINE\, A
 UGUST 11 - 19\, 2021
DESCRIPTION:A beloved and regular participant of the Seal Bay Festival\,
  the acclaimed Cassatt String Quartet will participate in the 18th Seal 
 Bay Festival of American Chamber Music for three in-person recitals\, as
  well as for several private outreach concerts\, August 11 to 19\, 2021.
  Bringing chamber music to the local community\, the Cassatts’ recital
 s will take place as follows: at Smith Hokanson Memorial Hall\, Vinalhav
 en School (22 Arcola Ln Vinalhaven\, ME 04863) on August 16\, 7 pm\; Wat
 erfall Arts (256 High St\, Belfast\, ME 04915) August 18\, at 7 pm\; and
  Mechanic's Hall (519 Congress St\, Portland\, ME 04101) August 19\, at 
 7:30 pm. The repertoire\, supporting Seal Bay Festival’s mission of ma
 king American chamber music a living experience\, will include works by 
 leading American composers Victoria Bond\, Shirish Korde\, Andy Teirstei
 n\, and Sato Matsui. The full program follows:\n\nVictoria Bond (b.1945)
  Blue and Green Music (2020) for string quartet\n1) Blue and Green\n2) G
 reen\n3) Blue\n4) Dancing Colors\nCommission made possible by the Chambe
 r Music America Classical Commissioning Program\, with funding provided 
 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.\n\nSato Matsui (b. 1991) Two Thought
 s (2020) for solo viola\n\nShirish Korde (b.1945) Excerpts from 3 Rasas 
 for string quartet\nShringara (love) and Aananda (Joy) (2020)\nAmit Kavt
 hekar\, Tabla (Aananda)\n\nShirish Korde (b.1945) Anusvara (2015) for so
 lo cello and tanpura\nphotographs by Paula Artal-Isbrand\, video by Mune
 ko Otani\n\nAndy Teirstein (b. 1957) Restless Nation (2010\, rev. 2021) 
 for string quartet\n1) My Eyes Were Hungry\n2) Our teachers… Flora and
  Fauna\n3) Recess\n4) The Door of No Return\n5) Stories of Rocks and Riv
 ers\n6) Finding our Way Home\n\nFor further information\, please visit t
 he event website: http://www.sealbayfestival.org/concerts.html\, recital
 s at Smith Hokanson Memorial Hall and Waterfall Arts are admission free 
 with a $10 suggested donation\; for the recital at Mechanic's Hall\, due
  to COVID\, all ticket purchases are online-only\, you can purchase regu
 lar tickets of $15 and student and senior tickets of $10 here: https://w
 ww.eventbrite.com/e/seal-bay-festival-cassatt-string-quartet-tickets-165
 445370557.\n\nAcclaimed as one of America’s outstanding ensembles\, th
 e New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout th
 e world\, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall at
  Carnegie Hall\, New York\; Tanglewood Music Theater\; the Kennedy Cente
 r\,Washington\, DC\; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées\, Paris\; Centro Nat
 ional de las Artes\, Mexico City\; Maeda Hall\, Tokyo\; and Beijing Cent
 ral Conservatory. At the Library of Congress\, the Cassatt performed on 
 the library’s matched quartet of Stradivarius instruments.\nEsteemed m
 usic critic Alex Ross named The Cassatt three times to his “10 Best Cl
 assical Recordings” in The New Yorker\, and the ensemble has been feat
 ured on NPR’s “Performance Today\,” Boston’s WGBH\, New York’s
  WQXR and WNYC\, on Canada’s CBC Radio\, and on Radio France.\n\nThe C
 assatt’s numerous awards are from the National Endowment for the Arts\
 , the USArtists International\, Chamber Music America\, CMA/ASCAP\, the 
 Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust\, Meet the Composer\, and the Amphion
 \, Copland\, Fromm and Alice M. Ditson Music Foundations. Since 1995\, t
 he ensemble has been on the performing artist roster for the New York St
 ate Council on the Arts.\n\nWith a deep commitment to nurturing young mu
 sicians\, the Cassatt has offered classes for composers and performers a
 t the American Academy\, Rome\; the Toho School\, Tokyo\; Bowdoin Intern
 ational Music Festival\; Columbia\; Cornell\; Princeton\; Syracuse Unive
 rsities\, and the University of Pennsylvania. The quartet is in residenc
 e annually at Maine's Seal Bay Festival of American Contemporary Chamber
  Music and Cassatt in the Basin! in Texas.\n\nEqually adept at classical
  masterpieces and contemporary music\, the Cassatt has collaborated with
  members of the Tokyo\, Cleveland\, and Vermeer Quartets\, pianists Ursu
 la Oppens and Marc-Andre Hamelin\, clarinetist David Shifrin\, flutist R
 ansom Wilson\, jazz pianist Fred Hersch\, didgeriedoo player Simon 7\, t
 he Trisha Brown Dance Company\, and composers Louis Andriessen\, Kaija S
 aariaho\, Joan Tower and John Corigliano. The Cassatt’s discography in
 cludes new quartets by Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Stucky\; Guggenheim 
 fellow Daniel S. Godfrey\; and Grawemeyer and Rome Prize winner Sebastia
 n Currier.\n\nNamed for the celebrated impressionist painter Mary Cassat
 t\, the quartet consists of Muneko Otani\, violin\; Jennifer Leshnower\,
  violin\; Ah Ling Neu\, viola\; and Elizabeth Anderson\, cello.
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