Fine Arts Quartet
UW-Milwaukee’s Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts
2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
7:30 p.m., June 7
Three quartets spanning two centuries comprise the Fine Arts Quartet’s next concert. Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1, is the first of six he had published and shows his clear mastery of the established Haydn-Mozart model. Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10—displaying the varied influences of Alexander Borodin, César Franck and even Javanese gamelan music—was described by composer-conductor Pierre Boulez as having unshackled the form from “rigid structure, frozen rhetoric and rigid aesthetics.” The FAQ also performs a 2010 string quartet by French composer Guillaume Connesson.
