Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg, Music Historian-in-Residence

Venue: Herbst Theatre
Date: Sat January 19, 2013 10:00am
City: San Francisco
Email: info@sfperformances.org
Price Range: $15-50
Tickets: 415.392.2545

San Francisco Performances

"The String Quartet at a Time of War: Benjamin Britten and His Contemporaries"

World War II (1939-1945) was the single most harrowing and devastating event of the twentieth century. Framed by the string quartets of Benjamin Britten, whose centennial will be celebrated in 2013, this series will explore works that reflect the broader European experience of the War years, as well as the period immediately before (Program 1) and after (Program 4). Aside from Britten’s superb quartets, the series will feature some of the most important string quartets composed during the twentieth century, including quartets by Pavel Haas (who perished in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944), Béla Bartók, William Walton and Dmitri Shostakovich.