Music@Mill MIRO QUARTET 'CELLO QUINTETS' with JOSEPH KUIPERS

610 Elm Street,McKinney TX 75069

24 April, 2021

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MUSIC@MILL FESTIVAL April 23-24, 2021 "Music that gives you a heartbeat.." Safely socially distanced in a cool factory space. "FESTIVAL FINALE" MIRO QUARTET ‘CELLO QUINTETS’ with cellist Joseph Kuipers. April 24, 2021, 6:00 pm Warehouse space, The Cotton Mill At 6:00 pm the world renowned MIRO QUARTET brings the heavenly intimacy of Schubert and Boccherini cello quintets to life with artistic director cellist Joseph Kuipers in the festival finale. L. Boccherini: La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid No. 6, Op. 30 Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C major D. 956, Op. posth. 163 The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, having performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages. For twenty-five years the Miró has performed a wide range of repertoire that pays homage to the legacy of the string quartet while looking forward to the future of chamber music by commissioning new works and collaborating with some of today’s most important artists. Based in Austin, TX, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds. Committed to music education, members of the Quartet have given master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the world; and since 2003, has served as quartet-in-residence at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Austin. https://miroquartet.com/ https://josephkuipers.com/ Music@Mill April 23-24, 2021 Four Concerts | Four Genres great music | food trucks | cocktails 🥂🥃 wine 🍷 | socially distanced Artistic Director Joseph Kuipers brings the expressive, authentic energy of chamber music, cello choir singer songwriter, Tango, and Americana musicians in socially distanced surround seating to the old factory space of the McKinney Cotton Mill April 23, 2021 7:00pm | TANGO NUEVO 💃 APRIL 23, 2021 8:45pm |Americana/ Western Swing/ Singer-songwriter/ 🎙️ April 24, 2021 3:00pm |TEXAS CELLOS #CELLOCHOIR 🎵 April 24, 2021 4:30pm | Whiskey Shakers Mixology class 🥃 April 24, 2021 6:00pm | MIRO STRING QUARTET 🎵 Music@Mill April 23-24, 2021 Socially distanced music festival in a warehouse space. FESTIVAL CONCEPT "HINGES' In this life beauty is passing. The flower in spring, the moment in a musical phrase, the person who truly sees you. They are beautiful because they will soon be gone yet awake a memory of what I truly desired all along. The fragile nature of these beautiful moments I must say, is connected to us knowing consciously or subconsciously that they are fleeting, allowing us to briefly connect and quench the unknown longings within us, if only for a moment. These beautiful moments come often at times of change, times of a new direction, of ends and beginnings: in short, turning points. Throughout my life I have always felt drawn toward finding and understanding these junctures, whether they be in history, a musical tradition, or my own life. By realizing and comprehending where the hinge of a matter is we come to a much more complete understanding of what lies ahead of us. Looking back awakens a nostalgia for what was, and yet we have the hopeful expectation of what may come. In programing Music@Mill I went with the idea of the hinge, because this last year has been one of the most turbulent shifts in human history. Through transitions between sound worlds from the heavenly intimacy of Schubert’s Cello Quintet, to Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango to the swanky harmonies of Beatles ‘No. 1 Classics’ and the eternal spaciousness of Arvo Pärt by the Texas Cellos @texascellos to the Americana expression of singer-songwriters, we pass through different stories in sound, and experience the ‘hinges’ between chapters in close proximity. Like a rock album, the festival programming is hung together under an arch. If we as a society, and as performing artists survive, and I hope we will survive! —We will enter a new era. A new era in culture and art, where Music@Mill played a small role in sustaining live culture. Remember— the Baroque era followed the bubonic plague! Joseph Kuipers. Artistic Director