Jeremy Gill’s new music for the Grammy award-winning Parker Quartet is inspired by a “kaleidoscope of postmodern fairy tales”

World premiere of “Motherwhere” on April 1 and 2, Parker Quartet with New York Classical Players, Dongmin Kim, conducting

For his new work for the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet, Jeremy Gill drew inspiration from a book described as a “kaleidoscope of postmodern fairy tales”1. Motherwhere is a concerto grosso for the Parkers and New York Classical Players, who perform the world premiere on April 1 and 2, 2022.

This book, “Night School: A Reader for Grownups,” by the Hungarian author Zsófia Bán, is a volume of short stories which range from “a meditation on the Mathematics of Randomness, to a "blog opera" based on Fidelio, to a love story found in a bottle on a Borneo beach”2. Gill was so enraptured with it that, he says, “I wanted to evoke, musically, the experience of reading her book.” He converted this literary “bag-of-tales” into 21 connected musical “bagatelles,” in a compact 24-minute work that traces the emotional thread from Motherwhere's absence (the first story) through the unexpected “Miraculous Return of Laughter” of the final story.

“Motherwhere” continues Jeremy Gill’s ongoing collaboration with the award-winning Parker Quartet, and is his first work for New York Classical Players.

Performances are April 1 (W83 Auditorium in New York) and April 2 (West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ). Free tickets available on New York Classical Players' website.

Calendar Listing

NYCP presents the world premiere
of Jeremy Gill's

Motherwhere
Bagatelles for Strings, after Bán

APRIL 1 & 2, 2022

NEW YORK CLASSICAL PLAYERS
DONGMIN KIM, CONDUCTOR
PARKER QUARTET
MADELINE FAYETTE, CELLO

Program

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile for Cello and String Orchestra
JEREMY GILL: Motherwhere: Bagatelles for Strings, after Bán (premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings

Friday, April 1, 2022
at 7:30pm

W83 Auditorium
150 W 83rd St
New York, NY

Saturday, April 2, 2022
at 7:30pm

West Side Presbyterian Church
6 S Monroe St
Ridgewood, NJ

Free tickets available on New York Classical Players' website