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Music@Menlo Summer Festival: Six to Eight
Offering one of the lushest textures of any instrumental combination, the string sextet has long been a favorite ensemble of both listeners and performers. Although Luigi Boccherini invented this grouping in the eighteenth century, classical music had to wait until 1860 for Johannes Brahms to revive this ensemble with his magisterial sextets. Violinists Benjamin Beilman and Erin Keefe return to Music@Menlo alongside an all-star cast of string players.
PROGRAM
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) | String Sextet no. 1 in B-flat major, op. 18 (1859–60)
Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) | 180 beats per minute (1993)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) | String Octet in E-flat major, op. 20 (1825)
VIOLIN
Benjamin Beilman
Erin Keefe
Kristin Lee
Jessica Lee
Richard Lin
Julian Rhee
Arnaud Sussmann
CELLO
Dmitri Atapine
Nicholas Canellakis
David Finckel
Clive Greensmith
VIOLA
Masumi Rostad
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3108155-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3108155-2
