The vast musical repertoire for classical string quartets ensures both challenges and variety of performance. In the case of the Emerson String Quartet, playing this Sunday in the Baird Auditorium at the Natural History Museum, these two components, together with the commitment of four outstanding musicians, have marked a delightful 29-year relationship with the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program.
The quartet, consisting of violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David Finckel, performs the fourth concert in its 2008-09 series of five for the museum’s Performing Arts Program. The evening’s selected pieces include Haydn’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 74 No. 1, Ives’ Quartet No. 1 and String Quartet in E Minor, Opus 59, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
