Become a member and save up to 24% on the price of your tickets! Join today If you are already a member, log in to access your member price. The Axelrod String Quartet: Stradivarius and Amati (Sunday series) Smithsonian Chamber Music Society In-Person Concert Weekend Performance Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Code: 1P0818 Location: National Museum of American HistoryNicholas and Eugenia Taubman Hall of Music14th St & Constitution Ave NW Select your Tickets Login $30 Member 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 $35 Non-Member Add to cart *Log in to add this program to your wishlist Reserving your tickets... Save when you purchase this program as a part of one of these series! 3 Program Series: The Axelrod String Quartet: Stradivarius and Amati Sunday Series Find series tickets Resize text Axelrod Quartet (clockwise from left): Marc Destrubé, violin; James Dunham, viola; Kenneth Slowik, violoncello Smithsonian Chamber Music Society audiences are privy to the unparalleled experience of being able to hear two magnificent quartets of instruments—one made by Antonio Stradivari, the other by his teacher Nicoló Amati—in this popular three-concert series on Sundays. The Axelrod Quartet—Marc Destrubé (violin), James Dunham (viola), Kenneth Slowik (violoncello), and now includes violinist Mark Fewer—presents three programs, each of which is anchored by one of Schubert’s last quartets. Additional works of quartet masters Haydn, Beethoven, and Shostakovich are joined by three 20th-century works related, in their diversity, to varied interests of the National Museum of American History through the 2023-2024 concert season. Note that Sunday concerts do not feature pre-concert lectures. Concert Program This concert features music by Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, and 20th-century composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The Austrian American Erich Wolfgang Korngold is probably most widely known for the nearly two dozen Hollywood film scores he wrote in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s (among them The Adventures of Robin Hood, for which he won the Academy Award in 1934), but many of his operas, orchestral and chamber works, songs, and piano pieces employ the same appealingly kaleidoscopic harmonic palette. Joseph Haydn: Quartet in F Minor, Op. 20, No. 5 Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 26 Franz Schubert: Quartet in D Minor, D810, Death and the Maiden Additional Axelrod String Quartet Sunday Series Concerts December 10 April 28 This series is also available on Saturdays. Other Smithsonian Chamber Music Society Performances Masterworks of Five Centuries 2023-2024 Saturday concert series Masterworks of Five Centuries 2023-2024 Sunday concert series General Information Advance registration for this concert will tentatively end by 2 p.m. ET on Friday, April 5, 2024. If tickets will be available at the door additional information will be posted leading up to the concert. Refer to our health and safety information for in-person programs.
