PROGRAM
Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C Major, D. 956, Op. posth. 163 (1828)
Julia Wolfe, Splendid Hopes, (2016)
This String Quintet is one of the most beloved and beautiful of Schubert’s chamber works, completed only a few weeks before the composer’s untimely death. The Pacifica Quartet commissioned composer Julia Wolfe—herself a dazzling writer for strings—to write a companion work. Wolfe took inspiration from a letter Schubert wrote in misery to his friend, artist Leopold Kupelwieser, which provided the ironic title of her heartbreaking tribute:
"I feel myself the most unfortunate, the most miserable being in the world. Think of a man whose health will never be right again, and who from despair over the fact makes it worse instead of better. Think of a man, I say, whose splendid hopes have come to naught, to whom the happiness of love and friendship offer nothing but the most acute pain . . ."
Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Choose from two seating sections. See inside back cover for details.
SECTION A: FLOOR LEVEL AND FIRST BALCONY
Adults $36, seniors $33, members $24, students and children ages 7–17 $15 (children under 7 not admitted).
SECTION B: SECOND AND THIRD BALCONIES
Adults $31, seniors $28, members $19, students and children ages 7–17 $15 (children under 7 not admitted).
2020/02/16 - 2020/02/16
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115
A limited number of free and metered spots are available near the Gardner Museum. We also offer discounted parking at the next-door Simmons School of Management Garage and are walking distance from the lots at the Museum of Fine Arts.
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY PARKING
Discounted* parking is available on Levels P1-P3 of the Simmons School of Management (SOM) Garage, at 86 Avenue Louis Pasteur.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS PARKING
Three parking lots are available at the Museum of Fine Arts, on Museum Road accessible from Huntington Avenue or from the Fenway.