Calendar
Time
1:30 PM
Venue
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston MA
USA
Program
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat, Opus 12 (1829)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Opus 44, No. 2 (1839)
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet (1931)
Leonard Bernstein, Yosi, the Jokester (arr. Nicholas Kitchen) (c. 1950)
This is the second concert in a two-year cycle of Mendelssohn's six string quartets. It also features the remarkable lone string quartet of Ruth Crawford Seeger, the American composer of extraordinary forward-looking music.