{"id":230835,"date":"2026-05-14T01:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230835\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:17:14","slug":"manhattan-chamber-players-at-grand-canyon-music-festival-re-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230835\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Chamber Players at Grand Canyon Music Festival &#8211; Re-Air!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week onArizona Encore, enjoy a re-air from September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of\u00a0Arizona Encore, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/manhattanchamberplayers.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan Chamber Players<\/a>\u00a0trade in the soaring, glistening skyscrapers of New York for the rugged and profound beauty of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/grandcanyonmusicfest.org\/?gclid=CjwKCAjwjOunBhB4EiwA94JWsC852zjWDviAjHwSZ3jrLJS9aInNd-Rx-BQIIfo1SneCtnZzBTo9AxoCaXYQAvD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Canyon Music Festival<\/a>. We\u2019ll hear two of their outstanding performances from the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>The program starts with a well-known and well-loved string quartet by Mozart and concludes with a rare gem of chamber music: the \u201cString Quartet No. 2\u201d by Anton Arensky. String quartets seldom play this piece because it requires two cellists. But it has so much to enjoy with its catchy melodies, hints of folksongs, exciting sections where the performers pluck instead of bow their instruments and a fascinating backstory.<\/p>\n<p>\tFeatured in this episode:<\/p>\n<p>Mozart \u2013 String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421 \u2013 Brendan Speltz, violin; Connie Kupka, violin; Luke Fleming, viola; Jacob Fowler, cello; Brook Speltz, cello; and David Speltz, cello<\/p>\n<p>Allegro moderato<br \/>\nAndante<br \/>\nMenuetto and Trio<br \/>\nAllegretto ma non troppo<\/p>\n<p>Arensky \u2013 String Quartet No. 2 in A MInor, Op. 35 \u2013 Brendan Speltz, violin; Connie Kupka, violin; Brook Speltz, cello; and David Speltz, cello<\/p>\n<p>Moderato<br \/>\nTheme and Variations<br \/>\nFinale. Andante sostenuto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week onArizona Encore, enjoy a re-air from September 2023. On this episode of\u00a0Arizona Encore, the\u00a0Manhattan Chamber Players\u00a0trade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-230835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}