Bid for two (2) tickets to Brentano String Quartet on Friday, April 25, 2014 at 8pm at the Emelin Theatre.

Your package also includes dinner for two (2) at Mix Cocktail Bar and Kitchen and one (1) night weekend stay with breakfast for two (2) at Crowne Plaza White Plains.

Haydn:  String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 64, No. 3
Elgar:  String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83
Beethoven:  Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2

This acclaimed quartet takes its name from Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars believe was Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” the intended recipient of a mysterious love letter. Two decades after this famous story inspired its formation, the acclaimed Brentano Quartet are acknowledged masters, internationally recognized; within a few years of its creation the group had won the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Brentano’s music hit the silver screen last year, starring alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken in the critically acclaimed film A Late Quartet.

In two decades traveling the world, the group’s players have not only mastered the entire two-century range of the standard quartet repertoire but traveled beyond it. The Quartet celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2002 by commissioning ten composers to write companion pieces for selections from Bach’s Art of Fugue, the result of which was an electrifying and wide-ranging single concert program. The Quartet has also worked with the celebrated poet Mark Strand, commissioning poetry from him to accompany works of Haydn and Webern.

In their impressive program at the Emelin, they will apply this proficiency to a carefully selected group of stunningly beautiful, lyrical compositions from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.