Copeland Strings Quartet at Music School of Delaware Nov. 16 in Dover

From Bach to Joplin with the Copeland Strings Quartet and Amos Fayette of the Music School of Delaware will take place at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, at the Dover High School Theater, Route 8.

The Copeland String Quartet is a Wilmington-based chamber ensemble under the sponsorship art patron Tatiana Copeland. Members of the quartet are world-class musicians who are also individual concert artists and teachers. Larry Stomberg will play cello for this peformance. He has recorded for the Naxon, VAI anad Centaur labels.

Fayette, director of the Music School of Delaware, will join Eliezar Gutman in the Allegro section of the Madrigals for Violin and Viola, a piece that features its players in a stunning display of virtuosity.  Fayette will play viola.

Repertory includes string quartets by Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, Dvorak and Spain's Juan Arriaga, who in his too-short lifespan was dubbed “the Spanish Mozart.” 

Beethoven will be represented by the Allegro con brio from Opus 95 (Serioso) from his String Quartet Op. 95 in F Minor.

The father of the string quartet, Haydn, will be represented by the Poco Adagio section of his String Quartet in C Major, the “Kaiser.”

Dvorak, an immigrant to the United States, wrote the String Quartet in F Major, the “American,” during his stay in the Czech community of Spillville, Iowa.

The “Allegro Vivo” from Bach’s Art of the Fugue will open the program, and the iconic music of ragtime composer Scott Joplin, “The Entertainer” will be a rousing end to the evening.

For tickets, $15 for adults and seniors, and $8 for students, call Dover High School, 302-241-2000.