Beginning with “Four Diversions” from 1930 by the Lithuanian born Louis Gruenberg (who died in Beverly Hills!), the Pacifica Quartet also plays the only work that the normally prolific Shostakovich wrote in 1936, as a tactic to avoid becoming a target of Stalin’s purge of the intellectual class. Dvorak’s signature American quartet rounds out the program.
Please join us at 6:00pm for the free Pre-Concert Talk – Dvorak in America, and the
genesis of his American quartet – with Artistic Director, Michael Adams
Louis Gruenberg (1884-1964)
Four Diversions for String Quartet, op. 32
Dmitri Shostakovich (1905-1975)
Quartet No. 2 in A major, op. 68.
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Quartet in F major, op. 96, American
The Pacifica Quartet:
Simin Ganatra, violin
Austin Hartman, violin
Mark Holloway, viola
Brandon Vamos, cello