Weekend Concert Series

Verona Quartet

Sunday, December 3, 2023
1:30 pm
CALDERWOOD HALL

PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
Grażyna Bacewicz - String Quartet No. 4 (1951)
Daniel Kidane - Foreign Tongues (2015)

The Verona Quartet make their pandemic-postponed Sunday Concert Series debut with music from three centuries. In addition to Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15, we will hear two works by composers written half a century apart. Grażnya Bacewicz was active in Warsaw during World War II (a hostess of secret concerts during the war). Her postwar Fourth Quartet is awash with folk themes from her native Poland.

The Verona Quartet is

Jonathan Ong, violin
Dorothy Ro, violin
Abigail Rojansky, viola
Jonathan Dormand, cello

Verona Quartet, Photographer: Dario Acosta.

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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 the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.