We are coming to you from the Ravinia Festival, North America's oldest music festival, which stands today as its most musically diverse, presenting a large variety of different events throughout the summer.

This program includes an ensemble of RSMI’s Piano & Strings fellows giving the premiere of Untranslatable, a string quartet commissioned from James Lee III in recognition of Miriam Fried’s 30th and final season as Piano & Strings Program Director. The five-movement work is inspired by music’s “universal language” ability to communicate feelings, emotions, ideas, and more across cultures in a way that words from other tongues can be challenging to express clearly and concisely in English.

 

Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924) | Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op.15

Allegro molto moderato
Scherzo, Allegro vivo
Adagio
Allegro molto

Haerim Oh, violin
Otoha Tabata, viola
Derek Louie, cello
Adria Ye, piano

 

James Lee III (b. 1975) | Untranslatable

Nhujuanya
Iktsuarpok
Chesed
Saudade
Elation

Sophia Anna Szokolay, violin
Masha Lakisova, violin
Andy Park, viola
Jiyeon Kim, cello

 

Intermission

 

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) | Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, op. 25

Allegro
Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo – Trio: Animato
Andante con moto
Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto

Clara Neubauer, violin
Sarah Sung, viola
Eugene Lin, cello
Amir Ron, piano