7:30 p.m. Saint Mark’s Music Series: Vehicles for Variation
Cathedral NaveVehicles for Variation: Beloved Chaconnes for String and Organ Friday, February 21, 7:30 P.M., Cathedral Nave Everyone loves a Chaconne! A Chaconne is a type of musical composition used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression. Its appeal lies in the tension between hypnotic repetition and ever-evolving variation. This program will include a Chaconne for organ by Buxtehude, for string quartet by Britten, for violin and organ by Vitali, and J. S. Bach’s famous Chaconne in … Read More