A Far Cry Concert: Dawn Breaks

Juantio Becenti’s string quartet, The Forest at Dawn, is at the heart of this programmatic journey from struggle and discord to hope and promise. The program begins with Shostakovich’s austere String Quartet No. 11, which, like the Becenti quartet, opens with a lone, melancholy voice, adding players one by one. Both quartets face struggle and hardship by embracing musical dissonance, ultimately soaring to higher registers where hope resides. From here, we take a collective breath of fresh air with the peaceful, lilting Allegretto from Mozart’s K. 590, which continues the uplift Becenti began. The program culminates as the mood continues to rise and “Dawn Breaks” with our arrangement of George Harrison’s Here Comes the Sun.

Musical Program:

Dmitri Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122

Juantio Becenti | Forest at Dawn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590
II. Andante

George Harrison | Here Comes the Sun (arranged by A Far Cry)