2020 OMF Festival Season Brochure

Thursday
July 23, 7:30 p.m.
ALEXANDER
STRING QUARTET
First Baptist Church, Portland
Alexander String Quartet
Zakarias Grafilo, violin
Frederick Lifsitz violin
Paul Yarbrough, viola
Sandy Wilson, violoncello
Mozart: Quartet in C Major, K. 465 “Dissonant”
Penderecki: Quartet No. 3
“Leaves of an Unwritten Diary” (2008)
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130
Mozart’s great testament to his admiration of
Haydn was a set of six string quartets to whom
he dedicated them. The last of them, K. 465
acquired the moniker “Dissonant” due to the
adventurous harmonic excursions the composer
takes in the slow introduction. Polish composer
Krzysztof Penderecki has offered in his String
Quartet No. 3 one of his most personal musical
works calling it “a sentimental journey.” The
concert concludes with one of Beethoven’s
“Late Quartets,” the Quartet in B-flat Major,
Op. 130. Tonight the original configuration of six
movements with the Grosse Fuge, an exhaustive
exploration of a single motive, following the
touching simplicity of the “Cavatina” will be
presented.
TICKETS
Tickets start at $29
Senior and student discount pricing available
28.