Reverberations

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Chamber Music Society launches its tenth anniversary season with a powerful program of string quartets. Beethoven’s dramatic Opus 18 Number 4, featured in NEPACMS’s very first concert in 2015, returns alongside Smetana’s autobiographical “From My Life,” written as he grappled with deafness, and Shostakovich’s haunting Seventh Quartet, composed in the shadow of personal grief. These works trace a compelling journey through memory, emotion, and resilience.

Program

Bedřich Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From My Life”
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4

Artists

John Vaida, violin
Arthur Moeller, violin
Amy Iwazumi, viola
Lisa Caravan, cello