Shouse Soundscapes

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478
(1756-1791)
Allegro
Andante
Rondo (Allegro)

Scott & The Paddington Trio

Dillon Scott: A Moment in Time

Scott

The Dolphins Quartet: Tales from the Great Lakes

The Dolphins Quartet

Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
(1833-1897)
Allegro con brio – Tranquillo – In tempo ma sempre sostenuto
Scherzo: Allegro molto – Meno allegro – Tempo primo
Adagio
Finale: Allegro

In our opening concert, we covered the first of Vitruvius’s three arenas of architectural design. The first, ichnography, the art of the blueprint, lends this year’s festival its thrust. Tonight we turn to the second in the series. Orthography is, at least according to De architectura, “the elevation of the front, slightly shadowed, and shewing the forms of the intended building,” which is today an outdated understanding. Virtuvius got to his definition by an imaginative etymologic pirouette: with orthos meaning correct and graphein meaning writing, he took orthography to mean the first sketch of a design in which the building is drafted in relief and with some sense of its optical reality. Read more…

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