Ready for another Coffee Chat? Coffee hot? Great!
Last week, for our first Coffee Chat, I focused on one of the two parts of our big celebration this summer – Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Today, I thought I would go to the other half, which is the 30th anniversary for Midsummer’s Music. In addition to the works we are featuring by Beethoven, we are also bringing back some of the most successful compositions we have presented over the years by other composers. Some of these, like the Piano Quartet and the String Octet by Joachim Raff, are by lessor known composers. On the other hand, the Piano Quartets by Schumann and Saint-Saëns are standard fare. Then there is that strange category involving an infrequently performed work by a fairly well-known composer. This summer, that would be the String Quartet by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907).