DE PERE, Wis. (WFRV)
Imagine sitting in a rowboat. You are on a river, and you are letting the water take its course. It a pleasant day. Warm, dry air wafts across your brow. An idyllic romantic aura embraces you. As the boat carries downstream, the river changes personality. The shore line narrows, and the boat speeds up. In deep water, you feel the water’s muscle beneath you. The boat drifts beneath trees, and the mood darkens. Suddenly away from the limbs and leaves, the sun is intense. And so the journey goes, ever changing, complex personality upon commanding mood upon shift and torque and push/pull.
Paul Hindemith never thought of that when he wrote his first string quartet composition as a teenager. But at least one mind imagined that in a performance Friday night by Griffon String Quartet.