Downtown, Pearl & NW

On Election Day, House of Scordatura presents a six-hour, uninterrupted performance of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2. Feldman wrote it in 1983. It is quiet, slow and long, and it asks nothing of the listener except attention. There is no intermission, and you can come and go as you like, whether you stay for ten minutes or all six hours. The date is deliberate: a quiet room on a noisy day. All proceeds benefit the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition.

Hailing from Germany, the three Schumann brothers have been playing together since childhood. Together with their violist colleague they communicate with an openness and curiosity that has gained them a reputation as one of the most exciting string quartets performing today.

Program: Monday, November 9
WOLF Italian Serenade
MOZART Quartet in G Major, K. 73f
IVES Quartet No. 2
BRAHMS Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2

Program: Tuesday, November 10
HAYDN Quartet No. 67 in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Samuel BARBER Quartet in B minor, Op. 11
TCHAIKOVSKY Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit focm.org.

An evening of chamber music featuring Hamilton Cheifetz, Julia H. Lee, and guest artists performing works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann. This event supports PSU’s String Ensemble Community Outreach program, which arranges student performances at prisons and retirement communities.

This concert includes one intermission.

Join us for two special programs with Hamilton Cheifetz and friends featuring some of the finest musicians from our community. Admission is “pay what you will” with a portion of the proceeds going to support the String Ensemble Community Outreach program which features PSU music students in performances at local prisons.