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Bartók String Quartet No. 6
One of the paramount qualities of the Bartók quartets as a series is that—like Beethoven’s—they exemplify growth. The problems and possibilities of string quartet writing are not of the kind that imply a single solution, no matter how perfect, nor a single form, no matter how refined. With the composition of the Sixth Quartet, then,…
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Looking ahead to March 2017
The Alexander String Quartet is looking ahead to a busy March schedule filled with exciting performances from coast-to-coast! Saturday March 4, 2017 10:00 am Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle San Francisco Performances Inc. Herbst Theatre San Francisco, CaliforniaTel: (415) 398-6449 Web: performances.org Program: ASQ with lecturer, Robert Greenberg Shostakovich Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op.…
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SF Performances “Triumph and Tragedy” This Saturday
The final San Francisco Performances “The String Quartet at a Time of War: Benjamin Britten and His Contemporaries” Saturday Morning Series concert is this weekend! Get the details here: Saturday January 11, 2014 10:00 am Benjamin Britten and His Contemporaries San Francisco Performances Inc. St. John’s Presbyterian Church Berkeley, California Tel: (415) 398-6449 Web: www.performances.org/ Program:…
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“The Hinge of Fate” as the final performance of 2013
The final performance of 2013 features the Britten Quartet No. 2 and the Walton Quartet in A minor, and has been titled “The Hinge of Fate” by Robert Greenberg. Get the details for the third San Francisco Performances Britten and His Contemporaries: The String Quartet at a Time of War below: Saturday December 21, 2013…
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Sandy Reflects on the SF Performances Britten Series
It has been fascinating to return after almost a year to Benjamin Britten’s string quartets, paired with the works of his wartime contemporaries and to measure the impact that this transcendental music has had on the ASQ. Only last winter we began our four concert survey at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater with Bob Greenberg for…
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This Saturday — “Their Finest Hour”
This Saturday marks the second San Francisco Performances Saturday Series concert in the The String Quartet at a Time of War: Benjamin Britten and His Contemporaries series, and is marked “Their Finest Hour.” Saturday December 14, 2013 10:00 am Benjamin Britten and His Contemporaries San Francisco Performances Inc. St. John’s Presbyterian Church Berkeley, California Tel:…
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Saturday Morning SF Performances Series – Triumph and Tragedy
Saturday morning (March 16) the Alexander String Quartet joins Robert Greenberg in the final program in The String Quartet at a Time of War, titled Triumph and Tragedy. From San Francisco Performances: Is it a concert series? Scholarly lectures? Classical music stand-up? The ASQ with Robert Greenberg is all three and more. For more than…
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Robert Greenberg – Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8
In anticipation of the final “String Quartet at a Time of War: Britten and His Contemporaries” concert, Robert Greenberg has a new blog featuring the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8. Read the intro here and finish the wonderful blog on www.robertgreenbergmusic.com! Art, politics, and current events make problematic bedfellows, but they are a Ménage à…
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Saturday Morning SF Performances Series – The Hinge of Fate
Saturday morning (March 9) the Alexander String Quartet joins Robert Greenberg in the third program in The String Quartet at a Time of War, titled The Hinge of Fate. From San Francisco Performances: Is it a concert series? Scholarly lectures? Classical music stand-up? The ASQ with Robert Greenberg is all three and more. For more…
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Robert Greenberg – Benjamin Britten, String Quartet No. 2
In anticipation of this weekend’s concert, Robert Greenberg has a new blog for our The String Quartet at a Time of War: Britten and His Contemporaries program. Read the intro here and finish the wonderful blog on www.robertgreenbergmusic.com! “Benjamin Britten was born in 1913, on November 22: the feast day of St. Cecelia, Patron Saint…
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San Francisco Classical Voice Reviews The String Quartet at a Time of War concert
The San Francisco Classical Voice has a review from Saturday’s San Francisco Performances series “The String Quartet at a Time of War: Benjamin Britten and his Contemporaries.” “the Alexander Quartet gave the Bartók a restrained and poised, even introverted, performance, without in any way neglecting the work’s varying moods. The march had the appropriate swagger,…
