Butler Cultural Requirement

Mark your calendar with the concluding lecture in this year’s Butler Seminar on Religion and Global Affairs!

Religion Seminar Series: Incarceration, Nationalism, and Religious Identity in China
This event is free and open to the public, no ticket required.
Tuesday, March 3 • 7:00 PM
Shelton Auditorium
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Performance tonight!

The Indianapolis Quartet begins 2020 with a FREE performance at Butler University's Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 4. The program features works by Beethoven, Debussy, and Butler University faculty member Frank Felice.

The quartet continues its survey of Beethoven's quartets in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth. On this program, the quartet will open the concert with the fifth quartet from Beethoven's first set of quartets (opus 18) written during 1799-1800. This ambitious composition project was important to the entrepreneurial Beethoven as chamber music was marketable to the Viennese aristocracy. This quartet is an homage to Mozart and modeled after his "Drum" quartet (K. 464). It is graceful and elegant, and contains one of Beethoven's best variation movements from his early period.

Felice's "Preserve Me, O God" for string quartet and voice will follow. �Written for mezzo-soprano Mitzi Westra, voice faculty at the University of Indianapolis, this piece is described as a dialogue between soloist and quartet, somewhat like a congregation engaging in active, vocal participation with a preacher’s reading.

Debussy's only contribution to the string quartet genre will wrap the program. It marked his first important chamber music work and emphasizes color and texture as much as melody.

Join us!