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Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg

December 4, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Varies
The Alexander String Quartet and Robert Greenberg pose with instruments.

Dec. 4, 2022 
Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74 for two violins and viola
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81

Jan. 15, 2023 
String Quartet No. 12 in F Major Op. 96 “American”
String Quintet in E Major, Op. 97

April 2, 2023 
String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106
String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105

A major artistic presence in its home base of San Francisco, the Alexander String Quartet is equally beloved in its second home: the Mondavi Center. This year, the quartet appears with violist David Samuel—joining cellist Sandy Wilson and violinists Fred Lifsitz and Zakarias Grafilo.

All Alexander String Quartet performances will take place in Jackson Hall and will feature Robert Greenberg’s lecture on each piece followed by a full performance of the same piece.

Purchase your tickets for the event here: [https://tickets.mondaviarts.org/7564]

Robert Greenberg

Greenberg has performed, taught, and lectured extensively across North America and Europe. He is currently music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances, where he has lectured and performed since 1994.

The Chamber Music of Antonin Dvořák

No nineteenth-century composer wrote chamber music more joyful, more melodically brilliant, more accessible, and more compositionally sound than did the Bohemian-born-and-bred Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904). Protégé of Johannes Brahms; father of nine children (all with his first and only wife); and beloved teacher, conductor, violinist, and pianist, Dvořák was perhaps, along with Joseph Haydn, the nicest, kindest, least neurotic person ever to become a major composer. Like Haydn, Dvořák created a body of musical work remarkable for its straightforward expressive content, humor, humanity, grace, and technical polish.

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