St. Lawrence String Quartet
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
7:30 PM
Joseph Haydn
Quartet in C Major (“The Bird”), Op. 33 No. 3
Jonathan Berger
Tango Alla Zingarese
Mark Applebaum
Dead Name
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in D Minor
Two superb Classical-era quartets frame two recent works written for the St. Lawrence Quartet by colleagues at Stanford University (where the St. Lawrence has been quartet in residence since 1998). Berger’s tango, with its twittering introduction, is an especially apt partner for Haydn’s “Bird” Quartet.