Junction Trio
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Performers
Junction Trio
- Stefan Jackiw, Violin
- Jay Campbell, Cello
- Conrad Tao, Piano
Program
JOHN ZORN Philosophical Investigations
IVES Piano Trio
BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, "Archduke"
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 100 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.Salon Encores
Join us for a free drink at a post-concert reception in Weill Recital Hall’s Jacobs Room.
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At a Glance
JOHN ZORN Philosophical Investigations
Saxophonist, record producer, and composer John Zorn is committed to collaborative music making, which is fundamental to his artistic philosophy. Famously prolific and frequently category-defying, he wrote Philosophical Investigations for the Junction Trio, and the ensemble has performed it across the country.
IVES Piano Trio
Like virtually all of Charles Ives’s works, the Piano Trio was years ahead of its time. Written before and during World War I, it anticipated the radically experimental music of the 1920s and 1930s in its dissonant harmonies, disjointed structure, and incorporation of popular tunes like “The Sweet By and By,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” and “Rock of Ages.” Ives called the second-movement scherzo a joke, but it had a serious purpose.
BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke”
Dedicated to Beethoven’s patron and pupil Archduke Rudolph, the “Archduke” Trio is the last and most overtly symphonic of the composer’s seven canonic piano trios (excluding variations, arrangements, and juvenilia). Along with such expansive and formally innovative works as the “Emperor” Piano Concerto, “Hammerklavier” Piano Sonata, and Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major—all dedicated to Rudolph—it exemplifies the “heroic” style of Beethoven’s so-called middle period.