March 16, 2025

3 p.m.

Bing Crosby Theater

Music by millennial composer Polina Nazaykinskaya join works by masters from different eras: Franz Joseph Haydn (born 1732) and Samuel Barber (born 1910). The three composers present three different styles of chamber music. Haydn pioneered the genre and became known as “the Father of the String Quartet.” Two hundred years later, Barber’s best-known work “Adagio for Strings” makes up the second movement of his Op. 11 quartet on today’s program. Russian-American Nazaykinskaya is a prolific composer whose works span all areas of classical music.

Program:

Polina Nazaykinskaya

Adagio for String Quartet

Franz Joseph Haydn

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3 (Hob. III:33)

Samuel Barber

Quartet in B minor, Op. 11

May 18, 2025

3 p.m.

Bing Crosby Theater

Guest Artist Clinton Webb, Horn

Clinton Webb, principal horn for the Spokane Symphony, joins the SSQ for Mozart’s horn quintet. Unlike a typical horn quintet, Mozart’s piece calls for a solo horn along with a violin, two violas and a cello. Replacing the second violin with a second viola fills out the middle range of the ensemble and melds with the horn. Webb is in his second year in Spokane after stints in Tulsa and Flint, Michigan. Also on the program are “Three Essays” by Grammy-winning contemporary composer Caroline Shaw and a quartet by Johannes Brahms.

Program:

Caroline Shaw

Three Essays

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Quintet for Horn and Strings in Eb, K. 407

Johannes Brahms

String Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 67