Emerson String Quartet

Works by Mendelssohn and Beethoven, with a new work by Sarah Kirkland Snider, commissioned for the Emerson String Quartet’s retirement. Described by TIME Magazine as “America’s Greatest Quartet.”

PROGRAM

SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER   new commission for ESQ

BEETHOVEN                           Quartet in C-sharp minor op.131

MENDELSSOHN                     Octet in E-flat op.20

PERFORMERS Eugene Drucker, violin; Philip Setzer, violin; Larry Dutton, viola; and Paul Watkins, cello