Music at Menlo presents

Borromeo String Quartet: The Bartok Quartet Cycle

Carte Blanche Concert 4

When
Sun Aug 3, 2008
Where
Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Time
10am
Cost
$35 - $70
Tags
Music, Classical Music, Theater, Performance Arts

Description

Borromeo String Quartet: The Bartók Quartet Cycle

Sunday, August 3
10:00 a.m.,‡ Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $70 adult; $35 student
‡Please note early start time.

Béla Bartók’s quartet cycle stands alongside those of Beethoven and Shostakovich as one of the most seminal cycles of the quartet literature. Bartók’s innovations to this perennial medium of Western music have had an indelible influence on the quartet repertoire, which no composer of string quartets since has been able to ignore. The internationally acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet makes its Music@Menlo debut at this summer’s final Carte Blanche Concert. Coinciding with the season’s portrait of modernism (Concert Program IV), the Borromeo Quartet offers this gripping quartet cycle by one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.

Béla Bartók:
String Quartet no. 1, op. 7, Sz. 40 (1908–09)
String Quartet no. 2, op. 17, Sz. 67 (1914–17)

(Pause)

String Quartet no. 3, Sz. 85 (1927)
String Quartet no. 4, Sz. 91 (1928)

Lunch-Break Intermission*

String Quartet no. 5, Sz. 102 (1934)
String Quartet no. 6, Sz. 114 (1939)

*This Carte Blanche Concert features a lunch-break intermission. A gourmet box lunch by Weir & Associates may be reserved for $16 per person.

More Info

Link
http://musicatmenlo.org/festival/carte-blanche-concert-iv
Call
650.330.2030 (Box Office)

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Location

  1. Stent Family Hall, Menlo School
    50 Valparaiso Ave, Atherton, CA