Three centuries of chamber music, including the original setting of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” are on the program when the Spokane String Quartet takes the stage at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the Bing Crosby Theater.
All seats are general admission. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and free for under 18 and students with ID. Tickets are available at this link or at the door.
From the 18th century comes Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet No. 33 in G Minor; from the 20th century, Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11; and from the 21st century, the world premiere of Polina Nazaykinskaya’s Adagio from Symphony for Strings.
Barber’s Adagio for Strings is frequently performed during periods of mourning, such as the funeral of John F. Kennedy and by the Spokane Symphony in their first concert after 9/11. The original piece was in the middle movement of Barber’s Op. 11 Quartet composed in 1935-36 and revised several times, including as a choral arrangement in 1967. The Quartet was last performed by the SSQ in November 2014.