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THE STEINWAY SERIES

Sunday, July 13th, 2008 3:00pm at Smithsonian's Museum of American Art

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2007-2008 SEASON

Concert 1 (past -- pictures/videos)

GROOVIN TO THE CLASSICS

Saturday November 10, 2007 7:30 pm at The Rossyln Spectrum

• Beethoven - Serenade for Violin,Viola and Cello in D Major, Op. 8.
• Weber - Adagio and Rondo for Cello and Piano
• Schubert - Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F Major,
• Leclair - Sonata in D major for violin and piano,
• Mozart - Piano Quartet in G-minor -- first masterpiece for piano quartet!

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Concert 2   (past -- pictures/videos)

THREE TRIOS

Saturday January 12, 2008 7:30pm at The Rossyln Spectrum

• Haydn - Piano Trio  (“Hungarian-style”)
• Shostakovich -  Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67
• Beethoven - Piano Trio in D major Op. 70 No 1 (‘Ghost’)

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Concert 3  (past -- pictures/videos)

THE GLORIOUS STRING QUARTET

Saturday April 5, 2008 7:30pm at The Rossyln Spectrum

• Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13

On a family trip to the south of Germany The 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn became romantically smitten. The infatuation passed, but not before Mendelssohn, with adolescent hormones a-pumping, wrote a song to a poem by his friend Johann Gustav Droyson, “Frage” (“Questions"). The text has to do with young love. That motto would also serve as the central musical theme and emotional engine of Mendelssohn’s A-Minor String Quartet.

• Scott Joplin - Favorite Rags
• Dvorák - String Quartet in F, op.96 "American"

Czech composer Antonin Dvorak spent the summer of 1893 in village of Spillville, Iowa. Of his time there, Dvorak said "As for my "New World" Symphony, the F major String Quartet and the Quintet (composed here in Spillville) -- I would never have written these works 'just so' if I hadn't seen America."