"First Mondays with the ASQ: The Art of Quartet Playing"

For the Arianna String Quartet, performing a string quartet involves much more than playing the notes off the page. Through decades of playing together, the members of the Arianna String Quartet have developed a unique approach to this compelling genre of music that has earned them a place among America’s finest chamber ensembles. Through the music of Mendelssohn, Dohnanyi, and Pulitzer Prize winner Gabriela Lena Frank, the members of the quartet will take you behind the scenes into the process of the Arianna String Quartet in their quest to get to the heart of the music, and to reveal its expression to their enthusiastic audiences at home and abroad.