Escher String Quartet with Brandon Patrick George, flute

Amy Beach was perhaps Boston’s most important composer during Isabella Stewart Gardner’s lifetime. She wrote much of her remarkable music at the MacDowell Colony, where she was a regular presence for over 20 years. Her ravishing Theme and Variations for flute and string quartet is one of her masterpieces. Ginastera’s Impresiones de la Puna evokes the landscape and culture of a region in the Argentinian Andes. One of Mozart’s terrific flute quartets, Ravel’s luscious quartet, and Barber’s iconic Adagio (in its original instrumentation) round out the program.

WORKS 
(IN ORDER OF COMPOSTION)

W.A. Mozart: Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285 (1777) 

Maurice Ravel: String Quartet (1903) 

Amy Beach: Theme and Variations, Op. 80 (1916) 

Alberto Ginastera: Impresiones de la Puna (1934) 

Samuel Barber: Adagio from String Quartet, Op. 11 (1936) 

Program subject to change. 

MUSICIANS

Escher String Quartet:  
Adam Barnett-Hart, violin 
Brendan Speltz, violin 
Pierre LaPointe, viola 
Brook Speltz, cello 

Brandon Patrick George, flute

Photo Credits
Escher String Quartet: Anna Kariel
Brandon Patrick George: Lauren Desberg

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This concert is made possible by the generous support of David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder.

Music at the Gardner is supported by Nora McNeely Hurley / Manitou Fund. Hemenway & Barnes LLP is the lead corporate sponsor of the Weekend Concert Series. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by New Music USA's Organization Fund, Nicie and Jay Panetta, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.