Midcoast Senior College presents The DaPonte String Quartet performing “Bartok the Refugee - A Study of Bartok's Sixth Quartet”
Béla Bartók wrote his last string quartet in 1939, while contemplating emigrating from Hungary—first to Switzerland, then to America—as a refugee.
This music draws upon a venerable but widely misunderstood tradition of social protest, which resurfaces in the music of many other composers (notably
Shostakovich). The DaPonte String Quartet traces its provenance from
Mozart, through late Beethoven, to Bartók.
Where:
Curtis Memorial Library
The Morrell Room
23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick
When:
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018
12:15 p.m.
Free & Open to the Public
FMI:
Midcoast Senior College (207) 725-4900
29 Burbank Ave., Suite 6, Brunswick ME 04011