PLEASE JOIN US FOR an evening with Palaver Strings
We are thrilled to partner with Palaver Strings for a special performance in the gallery as part of Palaver’s Beehive Chamber Series.
All donations and tickets will be split 50/50 between Palaver and SPEEDWELL.
Art by Devon Kelley-Yurdin
ABOUT PALAVER STRINGS
Palaver Strings is a musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization based in Portland, ME.
For ten years, their mission has been to strengthen and inspire community through music.
In their musician-led model, Palaver’s musicians share artistic and administrative leadership, guided by a passion for engaging new audiences, addressing social justice issues, and amplifying underrepresented voices.
SPEEDWELL is thrilled to partner with Palaver Strings
FROM PALAVER ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
“Our Beehive Chamber Series opens with The Happiest of Times. We begin with the Danish String Quarter’s haunting arrangement of Unst Boat Song, a Shetland folk prayer traditionally sung to sailors by their families left on shore. We continue with William Grant Stills’ Danzas de Panama, based on a collection of Panamanian folk dances collected by Elizabeth Waldo in the 1940s, in four vivid movements. Our program ends with Felix Mendelssohn’s very first string quartet, Opus 12, No. 1. Only twenty years old at the time, Mendelssohn wrote with the classicism of his day while pushing the expressive envelope, setting the stage for a fruitful career as one of the greatest chamber music composers the world has ever known.”
Unst Boat Song: trad., arr Danish String Quartet
Danzas de Panama: William Grant Still
String Quartet, Op. 12, No. 1: Felix Mendelssohn