Cypress String Quartet Performs at Firehouse Arts Center January 9, 2011

The Cypress String Quartet will perform at the Firehouse Arts Center (4444 Railroad Avenue).  The concert will include Mozart’s String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, and Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10. Mozart’s String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, is nicknamed the “Dissonance” because of its slow, uncommonly dissonant introduction.  It is the last of Mozart’s “Haydn” quartets, which were dedicated to Haydn. Schulhoff’s rarely-performed Five Pieces, written by the Czech composer in 1923, borrow their structure from the Baroque dance suite but are influenced by concepts as diverse as Argentine tango and Dadaism.  Debussy’s sole string quartet, from 1893, completes the Quartet’s program. The Cypress's sound has been called "beautifully proportioned and powerful" by The Washington Post, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, “the Cypress players converse with such rare sincerity as to make long-familiar music sound utterly fresh.”

Tickets: $12-$30 at www.firehousearts.org/  or 925-931-4848