The Elm City String Quartet begins the new year with a program that has something for everyone. We begin the concert with the beautiful elegance of Mozart’s 21^st quartet. We then explore the work of a lesser-known Holst: Imogen. Her Phantasy Quartet is short but offers expansive and sonorous textures. We complete the concert with Samuel Barber’s only string quartet, which is famous for it’s second movement adagio, which has served as funeral music for figures like Franklin Roosevelt and Albert Einstein.

Program:

String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
    I.  Allegretto
    II. Andante
    III. Menuetto. Allegretto – Trio   
    IV. Allegretto

Phantasy Quartet by Imogen Holst (907 – 1984)

Intermission

String Quartet, Op. 11by Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981)
    I. Molto allegro e appassionato
    II. Molto adagio
    III. Molto allegro (come prima) – Presto