MusicIC returns for a sixth season to present three programs exploring the theme of Inspiration and Hommage. Alongside the great string quartets of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn, this summer's programming features a recent work by the Pulitzer prize-winning composer, Caroline Shaw, as well as an innovative evening of storytelling and live music at the Englert Theatre that will bring MusicIC's 2016 summer programming to an exciting and inventive finale. This program features two string quartets in the key of F Major by Ludwig van Beethoven, his first quartet and his last quartet. Socially defiant and temperamentally fiery, Beethoven's Op. 18 string quartets mark the early years of his career ascent and show us a Beethoven full of youthful swagger and passion. It is with the publication of these extraordinary early string quartets that we see the passing of the compositional torch from Haydn to Beethoven as the younger man's compositions begin where the older master's works end. MusicIC was inaugurated in 2010 by Artistic Director Tricia Park and Managing Director Judith Hurtig, and was supported by The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research and the Division of Performing Arts, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 2013, it moved to Summer of the Arts, which produced the festival through its 2015 season. This year, MusicIC moves to a new home with the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization. For more information about MusicIC, please visit musicIC.org. For more information about the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, please visit iowacityofliterature.org.A complete list of available streaming videos can be found at citychannel4.com/video
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