2011–2012 Winter Series

Music@Menlo Winter Series Music@Menlo’s Winter Series offers listeners the opportunity to experience the festival’s signature chamber music programming throughout the year, deepening the festival’s presence as one of the Bay Area’s leading cultural institutions. Following the stunning success of the inaugural Winter Series season, the 2011–2012 season will comprise three Sunday afternoon performances at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, featuring a variety of repertoire performed by many of the festival’s favorite artists.

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Jupiter String Quartet

April 29, 2012

4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
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The venerated English conductor Jeffrey Tate once said, “The most perfect expression of human behavior is the string quartet.” The Jupiter String Quartet, one of America’s most exciting young chamber ensembles, returns to Music@Menlo for this special afternoon of masterworks from the string quartet repertoire. In addition to Haydn’s delightful F Major String Quartet, op. 77, no. 2, and Prokofiev’s Second String Quartet, the program features the colossal and expressive String Quartet in G Major, D. 887, by Franz Schubert—the final quartet that he wrote.

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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
F Major String Quartet, op. 77, no. 2

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
String Quartet no. 2 in F Major, op. 92 (1941)

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
String Quartet in G Major, D. 887 (1826)

Artists
Jupiter String Quartet: Nelson Lee, Megan Freivogel, violins; Liz Freivogel, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello