Come join us for an afternoon of chamber music and puppetry every Saturday of the summer! This event is free, no tickets required and is a prologue to our 3pm show!
Beginning at 2 PM, the KOMPASS String Quartet will be performing Charlie Morrow’s recomposition of Beethoven’s ‘Große Fuge’ – The Grand Fugue, one of the 6 late string quartets, which were composed when Beethoven suffered from complete hearing loss. Morrow emphasizes the temporal contradictions of the original piece by adding what he calls 7 lifts – parts of the Beethoven piece stretched in time.
The performance will happen in our Paper Mache Cathedral and will run for 40 minutes, followed by a short 20 minutes break before our 3 p.m. Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System show and our 4:30 p.m. Mother Dirt Church Services, held in the same venue. We request that visitors stay for the entirety of the KOMPASS quartet’s piece, in order to respect the intensity of the work and craft of the performers. We will not be admitting late comers.
The members of the string quartet are Jessica Gehring and Jade Schoolcraft on violin, Matthew Ryan on viola and Victoria Lin on cello. We are so excited to have them!
