# Stradivari Anniversary: Pacifica Quartet

The mighty Pacifica Quartet celebrated the Library’s Stradivari Anniversary with a pair of concerts designed to give more listeners a chance to hear our fabled instruments in person. Straddling a century of American music, the concert included several works held in manuscript at the Library—George Crumb’s “Black Angels” for amplified string quartet and the first version of Samuel Barber’s famous “Adagio for Strings.” Charles Ives’ fascinating second quartet rounded out the first half, followed by Dvořák’s op. 96 quartet, the perennial favorite nicknamed the “American.” This video includes excerpts from the performance of works by Ives and Dvořák.

Program:

\[0:00\] Introduction

\[8:19\] Charles Ives

String Quartet no. 2

\[33:50\] Antonín Dvořák

String Quartet in F major, op. 96, “American”

Participants:

Pacifica Quartet

Austin Hartman and Simin Ganatra, violinist

Mark Holloway, violist

Brandon Vamos, cellist

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 58 min
- By: Holloway, Mark
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-11659/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/video-11659?play=1)