Join the Borromeo String Quartet as they present "It must be!"

-Beethoven String Quartet Op. 135

-Bacewicz String Quartet No. 6

~Intermission~

-Mozart Viola Quintet in G minor, K. 516 

with Jonathan Swartz, viola

Beethoven was compelled by his creative vision to write a piece more Haydenesque as his last quartet - much smaller, more humorous and even incorporating the dark question "Must it be" and the vigorous and joyous musical answer "It must be!...It must be!". Bacewicz found her vision of quartet writing had to incorporate more of the "modern" way of writing, so that this 6th quartet caused some controversy with devotees of her music, but she had to pursue her vision. Mozart wrote the most brilliant of quartets even as a child, and particularly brilliant viola parts. The great composition teacher Nadia Boulanger used to remove the viola part and have her composer students like Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland fill in the score with their best attempt. Bringing back Mozart's viola part would always leave her students in awe. Mozart was so brilliant at the imagination for the inner voices that in the g minor quintet, he doesn't just have the one viola of a string quartet. He "must have" two violas and with these five voices in mind, he brings us one of the most sublime musical creations. It must be!

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