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Songs of Gratitude: Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132
Saturday, January 4, 2020 2:30 PM
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The central movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132, written in the painful last years of his life, is a “holy song of gratitude.” Read650 and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts present a New Year’s celebration of healing arts: a curated series of five-minute, 650-word stories of gratitude from a cast of talented essayists, memoirists, and novelists—including Jamie Bernstein—followed by the New York Classical Players’ performance of Beethoven’s profound quartet.
Brian Bak, Gergana Haralampieva, Violins
Chieh-Fan Yiu, Viola
Madeline Fayette, Cello
Beethoven Celebration 2019-2020
He rouses our spirits, moves us to tears, and inspires our most profound thoughts. Revolutionary, seminal, colossal—he is without challenge the face of Western music. To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, Carnegie Hall presents one of the largest explorations of the great master’s music in our time.
Artists include: Evgeny Kissin | Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique | Quatuor Ebène | Yannick Nézet-Séguin with The Philadelphia Orchestra | Emanuel Ax | Leonidas Kavakos | Yo-Yo Ma | Yefim Bronfman | Anne-Sophie Mutter | Mitsuko Uchida | The Cleveland Orchestra | Maurizio Pollini | Kristian Bezuidenhout | Sir András Schiff
