Crescent City Chamber Music Festival
Free Public Concert No. 5
FREE admission, no tickets required
Sanctuary, Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church
Escher String Quartet
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Doors: 6:30PM
Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A: 7 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM
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The masterful, renowned Escher Quartet returns to CCCMF to perform an exciting selection of Classical, late-Romantic, and modern works for string quartet (featuring Franz Schubert’s beloved “Death and the Maiden”) in the incomparably warm and mellow acoustic of Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church’s historic sanctuary.
CCCMF Founding Artistic Director Luke Fleming leads an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 7 PM.
More info on this event at:
https://crescentcitychambermusicfestival.com/2025-free-public-concert-5/
And more on CCCMF 2025’s six other Free Public Concerts here:
https://crescentcitychambermusicfestival.com/free-public-concerts/
Program:
“Worlds Apart”
Seth Grosshandler (b. 1958)
Dances for String Quartet (2024)
I. Prelude
II. Passacaglia
III. Corrente
IV. Minuet
V. Rigaudon
W.A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)
String Quartet in D major, K. 575 (1789)
I. Allegretto
II. Andante
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Allegretto
Pause
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden” (1824)
I. Allegro
II. Andante con moto
III. Scherzo: Allegro molto
IV. Presto
Escher Quartet
Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin I
Bryan Lee, Violin II
Pierre Lapointe, Viola
Brook Speltz, Cello
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