The Cramer Quartet will be featured in an extraordinary virtual event, Art in Tune, presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. CQ performs rarely-heard works by Joseph Boulogne, Hyacinthe Jadin, and Caroline Shaw on a set of 18th-Century musical instruments from the MFA’s collection, including a violin by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy; a viola by Gérard J. Deleplanque; and a cello by Andréa Castagneri. These performances are meaningfully placed in three current MFA exhibitions: “Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression”, “Cézanne: In and Out of Time,” and “Women Take the Floor.” The event also includes “Performer’s Perspectives” segments in which members of the quartet speak about the music, the artwork, and the instruments, bringing the dialogue and inclusivity of this program to life in their own words.
This event is free and open to the public, and will stream on mfa.org, Facebook and YouTube on January 26, 2021, at 7:00pm EST.
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From mfa.org:
Enjoy the immersive musical and artistic experience of Art in Tune no matter where you are! For the first-ever virtual installment of this MFA tradition, local musicians perform works selected—and in some cases composed—in response to current MFA exhibitions. Performances are broadcast from the exhibitions that inspired them and many highlight instruments from the Museum’s collection.
The virtual event, streaming here and on Facebook and YouTube, features:
The Cramer Quartet, an innovative period ensemble, performing Classical works on some of the MFA’s 18th-century French string instruments in “Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression” and “Cézanne: In and Out of Time,” as well as a modern work, composed by Caroline Shaw, in “Women Take the Floor.”
Nedelka F. Prescod, vocalist, songwriter, composer, and arranger on faculty at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, premiering an original work inspired by “Women Take the Floor.” With accompaniment from Consuelo Candelaria-Barry, playing the MFA’s electric “Storytone” piano.
Queen D. Scott, hip-hop artist and Assistant Chair of the Ensemble department at Berklee College of Music, performing an original work in response to “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation.”
Prescod and Scott performing a cypher of traditional and modern Black music, created in collaboration with Tariq Charles and the teen scholars from the MFA’s Curatorial Study Hall program and inspired by “Black Histories, Black Futures.”