Opening our sixth season, join us for a program exploring the two great Czech composers, Smetana, and Dvorak. Smetana's first quartet, From my Life, is an iconic work, well known, but rarely heard in its entirety. Though Dvorak's American quartet, perhaps the most famous string quartet ever written, overshadows the American quintet, this later work is no less the showstopper.

Bedřich Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 in E minor “From my Life”

Antonín Dvořák - String Quintet in E flat major Op. 97, B. 180 “American”