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 [7:36 PM banter from Camden, and an invitation to support the group by buying their new CD]
-Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904): String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, "American" (1895?)
+Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904): String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, "American" (1893)
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 Dusk was painting the dark edges of the low-lying clouds in faint shades of purple as we walked to Herbst -- Maxfield Parrish would have been inspired by the spectacle, and City Hall was magically lit in complimentary white, the blue dome showing off quite well against the clouds. Probably should have tried to frame some photos, but I was feeling a little lazy, and unhappy about the various wires and posts that would have marred the view, so instead I tried only to capture it in my memory.
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+Headed inside the theater and was happily reminded that I'd arranged for seats dead center in the third row. Magnifico! This is exactly the right place to be when you're about to listen to a top-notch string quartet!
+The Mozart _Divertimento_ was an appealing appetizer to start things off, full of sparkle and grace, but really too short to do anything more than whet my eagerness for the rest of the show. I was a little put off that the stage crew needed a couple minutes to reset the stage ... how hard could it be to remove a couple chairs and music stands? But apparently they were working off precise instructions, and the supervisor in charge was careful to make sure that all was just exactly perfect before they left the stage to the performers.
+Rossini's _Duo for bass and cello_ was an excellent vehicle for Edgar to display his mastery of the bass, and Camden performed equally well on the cello. It's a shame this piece doesn't get performed all that frequently, but that's how it goes ... my guess is that the audience for contrabass works is considerably smaller than the audience that heads out to hear the string quartet repertoire!
+The set closed with an appealing performance of Dvorák's "American" quartet, which seemed to me to really do well at evoking the feeling of traveling across the wide-open spaces of middle America, particularly in it's use of various train rhythms during the close of the piece. Well done!
+Following intermission we were treated to a performance of Edgar's _Quintet_ for contrabass and string quartet. Composed nearly ten years ago, I'm surprised that I don't recall having heard it before. It's entirely possible that I heard him perform it with the Emerson String Quartet at Cal or Stanford in 1995 when the work was premiered... unfortunately, my online notes don't run that far back, so answering THAT question means a trip to the garage to rummage through boxes of ephemera. Anyways, I enjoyed the work, and thought that it offered plenty of variety for the listener. Hopefully I'll get a chance to hear it again someday in the future!
+[Program Notes](http://sfperformances.org/img/perfnotes/1617/DoverQuartetNotes.pdf)
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