CMS Inside Chamber Music: Britten's Quartet No. 2 in C major for Strings, Op. 36

• Jeffrey Myers, violin
• Ryan Meehan, violin
• Jeremy Berry, viola
• Estelle Choi, cello
• Bruce Adolphe, lecturer

Composed to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell, Britten's second string quartet is much more than a tribute from one English composer to a celebrated predecessor. Britten revered the work of Purcell and sought in his own music to embody the same qualities he found in Purcell’s music: "clarity, brilliance, tenderness, and strangeness."

This Inside Chamber Music lecture features a work from Winter Festival: Calidore String Quartet on February 27, 2024. More info: https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/calidore-string-quartet/

About Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)

http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/

About Calidore String Quartet

http://calidorestringquartet.com/

About Jeffrey Myers, violin

https://www.calidorestringquartet.com/bio/jeffrey-myers

About Ryan Meehan, violin

https://www.calidorestringquartet.com/bio/ryan-meehan

About Jeremy Berry, viola

http://calidorestringquartet.com/about/jeremy-berry/

About Estelle Choi, cello

https://www.calidorestringquartet.com/bio/estelle-choi

About Bruce Adolphe, lecturer

Resident lecturer and director of family concerts for CMS since 1992, Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown, much of whose output addresses science, history, and the struggle for human rights. His works are frequently performed by major artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Fabio Luisi, Joshua Bell, Daniel Hope, Angel Blue, the Brentano String Quartet, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, and over 60 orchestras worldwide. Among his most performed works are the violin concerto I Will Not Remain Silent, the violin/piano duo Einstein's Light, and Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto. Also an author and innovative educator, Bruce Adolphe has spent decades helping people to hear and enjoy music in extraordinary ways. He is the author of several books, including The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Listeners and Composers (3rd ed., 2021) and the chapter on composing in Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal (2019). Widely known for his weekly Piano Puzzler segment on American Public Media’s Performance Today, which has been broadcast since 2002, Mr. Adolphe is also the artistic director of the Off the Hook Arts Festival in Colorado, for which he brings scientists, visual artists, filmmakers, writers, and musicians together. He has been a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, visiting lecturer in the residential colleges at Yale, composer-in-residence and visiting scholar at the Brain and Creativity Institute in Los Angeles, distinguished composer-in-residence at the Mannes College of Music, and on faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Juilliard School.