Absolute Jest

Here is a concert of Beethoven and outsized mirth! Berkeley’s John Adams has crafted a unique kind of concerto—one for string quartet and orchestra—constructed out of scherzo themes from Beethoven’s symphonies and late string quartets. As a fitting companion piece, perhaps Beethoven’s funniest work: a vast symphony inspired by the humor of Haydn and Mozart’s comic operas.

The Grace Note Chamber Players, founded in 2010, is a flexibly-sized ensemble devoted to presenting programs of rare and beautiful chamber music to Bay Area audiences. For this concert, the ensemble comprises violinists Claudia Bloom, Geoffrey Noer, violist Andrew Lan, and cellist Glenn Fisher.

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