The Telegraph Quartet will be joined by five amazing string students from the University of Michigan, who will be performing alongside the members of the Quartet after intensive work this past Fall Semester! Please join us for a concert celebrating the tumultuously personal chamber music of the early 20th Century - all three of these masterworks feature music that expresses the unrest of both this time period, of the composers in their search for a new style of expression and of the grasping of late romanticism as it turns inward to plumb the depths of the inner psyche. Both Webern and Bartok's early string quartets deal with dark material, from the former's mourning of his mother's passing to the latter's experiences of civilian life during World War I. And to finish, inspired by the then scandalous poetry of Richard Dehmel, Schönberg's "Transfigured Night" begins in despair and dread only to be utterly transformed by empathy and hope.
Anton Webern - Fünf Sätze for String Quartet, Op. 5 (TQ member and Students of University of Michigan)
Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67 (Telegraph Quartet)
Arnold Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht for String Sextet, Op. 4 (TQ and Students of University of Michigan)
