EARLY EVENIONG WITH THE BORROMEO

The Borromeo String Quartet offers listeners a peek under the hood, and a prelude to their upcoming performance of Bela Bartók's complete Quartets. They will discuss and play excerpts from the composer's manuscripts, which they project on their laptop "music stands." This should provoke fascinating conversation about Bartók's composing methods, his first and subsequent thoughts about particular passages, and what constitutes a definitive version of musical works.