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Concert Intime
This summer, Musicians of Ma’alwyck brings history to life with an unforgettable musical journey, reviving the legacy of the trailblazing Zoellner String Quartet. Audiences will step back in time to experience the music, stories, and adventures of this remarkable early 20th-century ensemble.
The quartet, composed of the Zoellner family members, toured actively throughout North America, presenting concerts in venues from New York’s Aeolian Hall and great performing stages of Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, to train depots and outdoor concerts. With Antoinette Zoellner as first violin—a rarity at the time—the quartet became a symbol of the women’s suffrage movement.
Concert Intime will tour to the Original Congregational Church in Wrentham, MA, in the Boston area, where the Zoellners met disability rights advocate, Helen Keller. Keller could feel their music through vibration, and so enjoyed it that she invited them to spend two summers with her at her summer residence in Wrentham in 1915 and 16.
This concert will recreate the musical programming of the Zoellners, which contained a substantial repertory of American composers of the time, as well as American premieres of new works by European composers. Stepping in for the Zoellners will be Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, violinist, and Founder & Artistic Director of Musicians of Ma’alwyck, MofM core member André Laurent O’Neil, cello; and guest artists Fritz Krakowski, violin; and Katrina Smith, viola.
July 25, 8:00pm | Original Congregational Church | 1 East St, Wrentham, MA 02093
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3153448-0
