Halloween Night in Gramercy, NYC: Dover Quartet Plays Brahms and Dvořák at Washington Irving

On Saturday, October 31, at 7:30 PM, the Dover Quartet performs at the Washington Irving campus, 40 Irving Place between 16th and 17th Streets in Gramercy. The concert is part of the Arens Series from Peoples' Symphony Concerts (PSC), and it gives Halloween night a chamber-music option.

The program has three works. The first half pairs Brahms's String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major, Op. 67, with Rattle Songs by Pura Fé, played in an orchestration by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, an Indigenous composer who is Chickasaw. After a 20-minute intermission, the quartet closes with Dvořák's Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61, B. 121. The whole evening runs about two hours.

The players are Joel Link and Bryan Lee on violin, Julianne Lee on viola and Camden Shaw on cello. BBC Music Magazine has named the group one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years, and it has two Grammy nominations. In 2013 it swept all the prizes at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. It also took grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and won prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. The quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, and it also holds residencies at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music and at the Walton Arts Center's Artosphere festival. The New Yorker has called it the young American string quartet of the moment.

Tickets are $25 for reserved balcony seats, $20 for general admission and $10 for students and essential workers. Arens Series subscribers pay as little as $9.33 for this concert. Single tickets are sold through Ticket Tailor. A virtual version of the concert streams from Monday, November 2, through Saturday, November 7. The PSC box office can be reached at (212) 586-4680, Monday to Friday, 11 AM to 4 PM, or at info@pscny.org.