Music@Menlo Summer Festival: Six to Eight

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Thursday, August 07, 2025

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Stent Family Hall, Menlo School

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08/07/2025 07:00 PM 08/07/2025 09:00 PM America/Boise 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 Beilm... Details & Tickets: https://www.upcomingevents.com/san-jose/events/stent-family-hall-menlo-school/musicmenlo-summer-festival-six-to-eight-475290?ref=uceaddevent Stent Family Hall, Menlo School, 50 Valparaiso Avenue, Atherton, CA, 94027

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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

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