Weekend Concert Series

Renaissance String Quartet

Sunday
May 17, 2026

1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall

We are thrilled and lucky to be able to present these four terrific musicians, who find time in their busy touring lives to perform together as a quartet (Randall Goosby plays a solo recital here in April). The great American composer Florence Price has a special gift for quartet writing; the exquisite and eloquent slow movement of her first quartet shows her love of American song, especially Black spirituals. Daniel Hass, cellist of the quartet, describes his beautiful first quartet as “Beethovenian in its thematic and structural tautness, but even more so in its motion towards excess.”

Photo credit: Renaissance String Quartet 

Program

Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 (1874)
Florence Price String Quartet No. 1 in G major (1929)
Daniel Hass String Quartet No. 1, “Love and Levity” (2021)

 

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Artist

Renaissance String Quartet is: 
Randall Goosby, violin 
Jeremiah Blacklow, violin 
Jameel Martin, viola 
Daniel Hass, cello

Seating Sections and Rates

Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Choose from two seating sections. See inside back cover for details.

Performance Level and First Balcony:

Members $65, Adults $85, Seniors $75, Students & Children ages 5–17 $20

Second Balcony:

Members $50, Adults $65, Seniors $55, Students & Children 5-17 $20

Third Balcony:

Members $40, Adults $50, Seniors $45, Students & Children ages 5–17 $20

How to buy tickets:

  • Online: Click the Get Tickets button*
  • By phone: Call the box office at 617 278 5156, Wednesday–Monday, 10 am–4 pm; Thursday until 6 pm; closed Tuesdays*
  • In person: Visit the Museum and purchase tickets at the door, Wednesday–Monday, 11 am–4:30 pm; closed Tuesdays

For sold-out performances, standby tickets may be available in the lobby no earlier than one hour before the performance begins. We cannot guarantee availability of standby tickets for sold-out performances.

*Handling charges apply to these orders.

OF NOTE

  • This performance takes place in Calderwood Hall, a 4-sided venue with 3 balconies and open seating within each level. 
  • To request accessible or wheelchair seating, or large-type programs, please call the box office at 617 278 5156.
  • Doors to Calderwood Hall open 45 minutes prior to the performance, and seats are available first come, first served. Once the performance begins, seating is not guaranteed.
  • Tickets purchased online or by phone within 14 days of the concert will be held at the admission desk.
  • For sold-out performances, standby tickets may be available in the lobby on the day of performance. We cannot guarantee availability of standby tickets.
  • No refunds or exchanges will be made.
  • Programs are subject to change.

Music at the Gardner is supported by Manitou Fund. 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 Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Joseph Mari, Sallie and Jim McGregor, Nicie and Jay Panetta, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.