Left Bank Quartet: Iconoclasts: Flouting Conventions
This program features three of history’s great musical minds whose imagination transformed Western music. A performance of Stravinsky’s string quartet oeuvre, which was composed after the riotous fallout from his Rite of Spring, begs the question: is this modernist only just a Neo-Classicist? Mozart, while respecting his rich Classical traditions, mightily expands the scope of his musical statements beyond the four basic string quartet voices in his Viola Quintet in C Major.