The Galliard String Quartet, Hawaii's premier string ensemble, will
perform a concert in Hilo on
Monday December 7, as part of the Hawaii Concert Society's 1998/99 season.
The quartet,
whose members are drawn from the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, will play
music by Beethoven,
Spanish composer Joaquin Turina and by local composer Donald Womack.
Since its inception in 1979, the Galliard String Quartet has included
some of the finest
musicians from the Honolulu Symphony. Two of its members, first
violinist Claire Sakai
Hazzard and cellist Karen Bechtel, are founders of the quartet and long
time Symphony members,
and Hazzard is the concertmaster of the orchestra. Second violinist Hung
Wu has been with the
Honolulu Symphony since 1993 and is its principal second violinist.
Violist Anna Womack,
the wife of the composer and a member of the music faculty at the University
of Hawaii at
Manoa, is substituting for long time quartet member Zhao Yu.
Of special interest will be the performance of Donald Womack's "To Lie
Silent and Weep,"
inspired by the birth of the Womack's first child. The work reflects the
composer's feelings
about this transition in his life as well as the nature of human existence
and the interrelation
of the physical and the spiritual. At the concert Mr. Womack will speak to
the audience about
this work before it is performed. The concert will conclude with the famous
Razumovsky Quartet
No. 1 by Beethoven, written when he was at the height of his powers.
This will be the third presentation of the Hawai'i Concert Society's thirty-seventh
season.
The concert will take place on Monday, December 7th at 7.30 pm in the
Theatre of the University of
Hawai'i at Hilo. Tickets are available at the East Hawai'i Cultural Center,
MJS Music, the
downtown Most Irresistible Shop, Book Gallery in the Prince Kuhio Mall,
and the U.H.H. Theatre
Box Office. Ticket prices are $13 general admission, $12 for seniors,
and $6 for students.
Tickets will be available at the Box Office on the night of the performance.
For further information
call 959-1652 or 959-4064.