The strings of summer! Join NWS Fellows for an evening of sharing chamber music together through the unique pairing of two string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Dmitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich originally titled his Third Quartet’s opening movement “Blithe ignorance of the future cataclysm.” Although the music begins rather optimistic, we soon enter a world of sarcasm, fear and sorrow. In contrast, Mozart’s “Spring” Quartet invites the listener to a cheerful, lightly humored sound environment.
Cataclysm and Optimism is an NWS BLUE project. Fellow-driven projects are sponsored in part by the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation.
