Our special guests, San Francisco based Telegraph Quartet, join SJCO principal players for an intimate evening of chamber music.

Alexander Borodin’s Quartet #2.
Third movement of this quartet made famous from use in the musical KISMET

George Walker’s Quartet #1 “Lyric”
George Walker was the first Black Composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1996)

Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round
Composer note: The piece is conceived as an idealized bandoneon. The first movement represents the act of a violent compression of the instrument and the second a final, seemingly endless opening sigh (it is actually a fantasy over the refrain of the song My Beloved Buenos Aires, composed by the legendary Carlos Gardel in the 1930s. But Last Round is also a sublimated tango dance.