Where: Lyric Theater (440 East Avenue, Rochester NY) Our concert will take place in the smaller performance space, originally the "Sunday School." Please enter the building using the PRINCE STREET side entrance. PARKING is available on-street (note any alternate-side parking signs!) as well as directly across Prince Street from the Lyric Theater. Here's a Google Map link to the Lyric Theater: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Lyric+Theatre/@43.1551339,-77.592467,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x5e16b4ba3e01cec7 Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 No. 6 About the Music (notes by David Brickman): The first
movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 18, No. 6 (1798-1800) opens with a boisterous
dialog between the violin and ‘cello.
Its second theme, a poignant rhetorical chorale, provides stark
contrast. In the sublime slow movement
in E-flat, Beethoven demonstrates his ability to express profound meaning from
simple material. The Scherzo is a tour de force of syncopation and
surprise. The Finale with its slow
introduction (which Beethoven indicates is to be played with the greatest
delicacy) foreshadows the expression of mystery and gravity that is associated
with Beethoven’s most mature works. He
was still in his twenties when this work was composed. |
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