April 2/3, 2023
New York Philharmonic String Quartet
Frank Huang, violin
Qianqian Li, violin
Cynthia Phelps, viola
Carter Brey, cello
Wolfgang A. Mozart
String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, Dissonance
Joel Thompson
In Response to the Madness
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden
The distinguished New York Philharmonic String Quartet returns to Cincinnati. Opening with Mozart’s innovative Dissonance quartet, this program explores a range of emotions through Thompson’s stream-of-consciousness response to political mayhem and Schubert’s deeply melancholic and powerful work written as he faced his own mortality.