The award winning Euclid and Degas string quartets will present a concert on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn on the campus of Hamilton College. The program will include string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Alberto Ginastera and will feature the central New York premiere of Ludi, a work for two string quartets by Hamilton Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo.
Ludi, which means "games" in Latin, was commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival and explores the many aspects (social, psychological, sexual, etc.) of gamesmanship in human relationships by pitting the quartets against each other on opposite sides of the stage. Gerald Cochran of the Charlotte Observer and Classical Voice of North Carolina, in a review of Ludi's premiere performance, writes that "it is a work that deserves to be heard many more times, and in many more places. It is new, it is fresh, and it gets its message across." Admission is free and a reception will follow the program.
