Details
Item details
Date
April 27, 2024 10:00AM
Location
Herbst Theatre
Name
Alexander String Quartet with
Robert Greenberg | Host · Lecturer
Saturday Morning—Program 6: United Kingdom
Description
About This Performance
The esteemed and popular Alexander String Quartet has enlivened SF Performances seasons for more than three decades, joined by Music Historian-in-Residence Robert Greenberg. Together they explore in music and words some of chamber music’s most intriguing and important composers, their works, lives, and times. Looking back to the early years of the last century, the Quartet and Greenberg will explore the rich history of bright innovation and creation during often dark times.
More performance details…Program
Music as a Mirror of Our World:
The String Quartet from 1905 to 1946
Program 6: United Kingdom
BRITTEN: String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36 (1945)
WALTON: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (1946)
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