Sarasota Orchestra gets ‘Serioso’ in new chamber concert
Susan L. Rife, Correspondent
George Walker, the first Black man to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, was just 24 years old when he composed his first string quartet, titled “Lament,” in memorial to his grandmother, who had escaped slavery, lost a husband when he was sold, and lived to a great age. When Walker heard the quartet performed by string orchestra, he reworked the “Lament” and retitled it “Lyric for Strings.”
“It has its moments of anguish and pain and loss, but it’s also beautiful and sweet,” said Nathan Frantz, violist for the Sarasota Orchestra, which will perform the Walker piece beginning Thursday as part of its “Serioso” program. It’s short, six or seven minutes long, one of those pieces that you come away from feeling good, even if on the surface it can sound sort of pained and anguished. I don’t think it’s as emotional, not as pained as the Barber Adagio. It’s sad, for sur
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