2023 Skidmore String Festival: The American String Quartet
Recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. This evening-length performance will include performances of Franz Schubert’s slow and gracious String Quartet in A minor (“Rosamunde”); Blueprint, composed by Caroline Shaw as a “harmonic reduction” of Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 6; Vivian Fung’s Pizzicato, a short work during which the players never use their bows; ending with Ludwig van Beethoven’s last quartet, through which he asks, “Muss es sein?”