String Quartet 'Esme Quartet' Concert at Basquiat Exhibition, Lotte Museum

8 PM on the 24th... Lotte Concert Hall Instagram Live Broadcast

Esme Quartet [Photo by Lotte Cultural Foundation]

[Asia Economy Reporter Byunghee Park] The string quartet Esm? Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. on the 24th at Lotte Museum, where the retrospective exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat is being held.

Esm? Quartet plans to perform the second movement of Alfred Schnittke's String Quartet No. 3, among other pieces, against the backdrop of Jean-Michel Basquiat's works.

Schnittke and Basquiat share a similarity in having multifaceted backgrounds.

Schnittke was a German-Russian composer born in 1934 in Engels, a Volga Republic located north between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. At the time of Schnittke's birth, the Volga region was a German autonomous area, and Schnittke learned German as his mother tongue. Due to this upbringing, Schnittke studied the new attempts of Western composers in the 1950s and became fascinated with the 'polystylism' technique, applying twelve-tone technique experiments to melody, harmony, and rhythm.

Basquiat also had a multifaceted background, born to a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican-American mother and raised in New York, similar to Schnittke.

The Esm? Quartet's performance will be broadcast live via Lotte Concert Hall's Instagram Live and can be rewatched on IGTV.

Meanwhile, Esm? Quartet has been newly selected as an 'In-House Artist' at Lotte Concert Hall along with the Korean Chamber Orchestra, and will hold three concerts at Lotte Concert Hall until May next year. The first concert is scheduled for the 28th. Esm? Quartet will perform three pieces: Haydn's String Quartet No. 29 "How Do You Do," Dvo??k's String Quartet No. 13, and Beethoven's String Quartet No. 8 "Razumovsky No. 2." The remaining two concerts will be held on May 11 and May 16 next year.

The Korean Chamber Orchestra will hold its first concert on the 26th, performing Bart?k's "Romanian Folk Dances" and "Divertimento for Strings," and Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons." The Korean Chamber Orchestra will hold the remaining two concerts on March 11 and July 2 next year.

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