Veronika String Quartet

Veronika String Quartet with guest artist Zahari Metchkov will present a program titled “What Love Creates.” This season, titled “Muse, She, the Empowering “, the Veronika’s patrons and outreach audiences will hear masterpieces written by, dedicated to, and inspired by women.

The concert will open with a beautiful one-movement work by American composer Amy Beach. The String Quartet, Op. 89 is based on three Inuit melodies with limited pitches, out of which, though never completely quoted, Beach fashioned the work’s entire texture.

The program will continue with String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters” by Czech composer Leoš Janáček. At age 63, Janáček began his most unusual writing project — a constant stream of more than 700 love letters written to a married woman 37 years his junior. At an age when most people slow down, Janacek, fueled by his own unrequited love, went into high gear composing some of his best music.

Our program will end with monumental and virtuosic Piano Quintet Op. 44, in E-flat Major by Robert Schumann, featuring brilliant pianist Zahari Metchkov. Schumann dedicated the piano quintet to his wife, the great pianist Clara Schumann.  The work was composed in just a few weeks in the fall of 1842, in the course of his so-called chamber music year, when many of his chamber works were written, displaying the extroverted, exuberant side of the composer’s creative genius.

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