Performance Series - Chamber Music: Shostakovich Centennial Celebration With the Alexander String Quartet September 7, 2007

Shostakovich specialists the Alexander String Quartet help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth with career-spanning excerpts from several of his important Quartets: #2 (1944), #8 (1960) and #12 (1968). Local scholars, and the musicians, will present readings, commentary and historical notes about Shostakovich's life and work.