Way "out there"

Jason Makansi, a writer, musician, and follower of the Arianna String Quartet, recently blogged about our Touhill Performance - Contemporary Beethoven.

It’s not everyday that you go to hear chamber music and Beethoven happens to be the most avant garde composer you hear.

Okay, that’s not strictly the truth. The second String Quartet by Sofia Gubaidulina, composed in 1987, and performed by the Arianna String Quartet last night at the Touhill Performing Arts Center in St. Louis, was way more “out there.” In a relative sense, though, the Beethoven Grosse Fuge, was the more experimental, given that it was composed more than 150 years prior. 

Check out his full story here.