Program 1 — Drama!
An unusual program that opens and closes with two of Schubert’s most beloved and dramatic string quartets.
Option of collaboration with Lisa Saffer, soprano (Schoenberg)

Presenters may choose as the central work of this program Janáček’s dramatic quartet conjuring Tolstoy’s short story which in turn evokes Beethoven’s violin-piano sonata.  Alternatively they may select Schoenberg’s revolutionary masterwork, largely tonal but with a final movement that is one of the composer’s first forays into atonality.  The quartet, which incorporates the love poetry of Stefan George into the last two movements, was composed during a months-long period when the composer’s wife was having an affair with a neighbor, and premiered weeks after she returned to him. Or they may choose Berg’s Lyric Suite, which a long-secret, encoded text that substantiates an affair between the composer and Hanna Fuchs-Robettin.
1. Schubert: String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D. 703 “Quartettsatz” (1820)
2. Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923)
    — OR — Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 10 (1908)
    — OR — Berg: Lyric Suite (1925-26)
    —Intermission—
3. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden” (1824)

Program 2
1. Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K. 589 (1790)
2. Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910)
    —OR— Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923)
    —Intermission—
3. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden” (1824)

Program 3
1. Mozart: String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590 (1790)
2. Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910)
    —OR— Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923)
    —OR (Spring Only)— Richard Wernick: String Quartet No. 8 (2010)
       commissioned by the Bay Shore Schools Arts and Education Fund
         and the Islip Arts Council for the Daedalus Quartet
    —Intermission—
3. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127 (1825)
    —OR— Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1 (1842)

Collaborations
The following artists are available for touring:
1. Lydia Artymiw, piano
2. Benjamin Hochman, piano
3. Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet
4. Lisa Saffer, soprano