St. Lawrence String Quartet:
Adams and Beethoven
Friday, March 4, 2011; 8:00 PM
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

John Adams String Quartet
Beethoven Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op. 131

St. Lawrence String Quartet (Geoff Nuttall, violin; Scott St. John, violin;
Lesley Robertson, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello)

Old and new worlds collide when this electrifying ensemble, long a favorite of Da Camera audiences, returns to perform one of Beethoven’s most profound late quartets and a new work written for them by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Adams.  Adams, best known for the operas Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic, was recently described as a “post-minimalist titan” by The New Yorker.

“John Adams’ String Quartet is a stunner. Performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet…the piece emerged as one of his most brilliant and inventive masterworks.” – San Jose Mercury News

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