{"id":13963,"date":"2026-01-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/quartets-with-friends-host-a-viennese-soiree-at-flc\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:32:29","slug":"quartets-with-friends-host-a-viennese-soiree-at-flc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/quartets-with-friends-host-a-viennese-soiree-at-flc\/","title":{"rendered":"Quartets with Friends host \u2018A Viennese Soir\u00e9e\u2019 at FLC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quartets with Friends, a new chamber music ensemble, rehearses in Roshong Recital Hall for the upcoming concert. From left: violinist Lauren Avery, violist Andrew Picken, cellist Katherine Jetter and violinist Richard Silvers. (Courtesy of J. Reynolds)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chamber music lovers rejoice. Serendipity has brought a new string quartet to town.<\/p>\n

Area music lovers already know three of the four quartet players. Two are members of the Fort Lewis College Music Department: cellist Katherine Jetter and violinist Richard Silvers. Fans of the San Juan Symphony will recognize violinist Lauren Avery, concertmaster of our regional orchestra. The new addition is violist Andrew Picken, \u201ca semi-retired professional musician from Pasadena,\u201d Jetter said. \u201cAndrew recently moved to the area. He loves the mountains,\u201d and, she underscored: \u201cHe also loves trains. For the time being, we\u2019re calling what we are doing \u2018Quartets with Friends.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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If you go<\/h4>\n

WHAT: <\/strong>\u201cA Viennese Soir\u00e9e,\u201d Quartets with Friends at Fort Lewis College.<\/p>\n

WHEN: <\/strong>3 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

WHERE: <\/strong>Roshong Recital Hall, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive.<\/p>\n

TICKETS: <\/strong>Adults $15, students free. Pay at the door.<\/p>\n

MORE INFORMATION:<\/strong> Email jetter_k@fortlewis.edu<\/a> or call 247-7377.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Picken travels between Colorado and California. He is principal violist for the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra as well as the Los Angeles Master Choral Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. With degrees from UCLA and Northwestern University, he founded the Pasadena String Quartet. He has a private studio, and as Jetter noted, he loves trains.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter meeting Andrew last year, Richard instigated the whole quartet idea,\u201d Jetter said. \u201cWe first thought of performing then, but there were not enough weeks free. So, last summer we got together for an afternoon and read portions of about 12 to 15 quartets. We all loved Mozart and had to narrow down which one of his fabulous works we would perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ensemble geared up for a performance in late October, but an unexpected family emergency required rescheduling.<\/p>\n

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From left: violinist Lauren Avery, violist Andrew Picken, cellist Katherine Jetter and violinist Richard Silvers rehearse in Roshong Recital Hall for Sunday\u2019s concert. (Courtesy of J. Reynolds)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So now, \u201cA Viennese Soir\u00e9e\u201d will take place at 3 p.m., Sunday in Roshong Recital Hall on the FLC campus.<\/p>\n

The program\u2019s fanciful title suggests an evening party with special music in a Viennese salon. Roshong Recital Hall will have to do.<\/p>\n

The program will open with Mozart\u2019s Quartet in F, K.590.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the last quartet Mozart composed, part of a set referred to as the \u2018Prussian\u2019 Quartets,\u201d Jetter said. \u201cMozart composed these after he met the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II, who was an amateur cellist. Mozart gives the cello a larger role, acknowledging the king. And in creating this symmetry, he gives every voice a share of the spotlight. The resulting democratic interplay makes the quartet feel much like an opera, albeit comic at times. Unfortunately, Mozart did not live long enough to see this published.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From left: violinist Lauren Avery, violist Andrew Picken, cellist Katherine Jetter and violinist Richard Silvers are Quartets with Friends. (Courtesy of J. Reynolds)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before a short intermission, the quartet will play Schubert\u2019s Quartet-Satz in c minor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Schubert \u2013 it\u2019s a one-movement work and it attracted us because it is a short piece and rounds out the program,\u201d Jetter said. \u201cIt was written in 1820, the same year as Schubert\u2019s \u2018Unfinished Symphony.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

After intermission, the musicians will plunge into a big Romantic-era work: Brahms\u2019 Quartet in A minor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will conclude our program with Brahms\u2019 1873 Quartet,\u201d Jetter said. \u201cBrahms was influenced by the quartet writing of Haydn and Mozart, so it seemed a natural progression in our program, and the motive it includes of notes F-A-F relates to a saying Brahms had: Frei, aber from, \u2018Free, but glad.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are several wonderful Brahms quartets,\u201d she said. \u201cWe first narrowed it down to two and played parts of both and eventually voted. Ah, democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that the players have launched a new chamber group, they have added the upcoming Bach Festival with a twist.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be performing the \u2018Dissonant\u2019 Quartet during the San Juan Symphony Bach \u2013 Mostly Mozart festival in March,\u201d Jetter said.<\/p>\n

Judith Reynolds is an arts journalist and member of the American Theatre Critics Association.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quartets with Friends, a new chamber music ensemble, rehearses in Roshong Recital Hall for the upcoming concert. From left: violinist Lauren Avery, violist Andrew Picken, cellist Katherine Jetter and violinist Richard Silvers. (Courtesy of J. Reynolds) Chamber music lovers rejoice. Serendipity has brought a new string quartet to town. Area music lovers already know three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1060,132,28,559,994],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-13963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-headlines","tag-music","tag-trueanthem"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19253,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions\/19253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13963"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=13963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}