For over 20 years, thousands of audience members from the Bay Area and beyond have savored Saturday-morning musical conversations, exploring composers and concepts with the Alexander String Quartet and San Francisco Performances Music Historian-in-Residence Robert Greenberg. The series combines complete performances of string quartets with Greenberg’s witty profound takes on these works, their creators and their place in history and the hearts of music lovers.
Beethoven changed the very way we listen to, think and talk about music. Like him or not, every composer since Beethoven has had to deal, somehow, with his compositional and expressive innovations. This series features four works by Beethoven (“during”); a string quartet that profoundly influenced Beethoven (Mozart’s A Major, K. 464, “before”); and three works powerfully influenced by Beethoven (“after”).
BEETHOVEN: Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
GEORGE ROCHBERG: Quartet No. 3