Ives Quartet opens season with inventive, adventurous program

It"s an all-American concert, featuring George Gershwin"s "Lullabye" (he later culled the tune "Has Anyone Seen My Joe?" from it); Charles Ives"s thorny and wondrous String Quartet No. 2; and Amy Beach"s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, a darkly Romantic work by the New Englander whose music was widely performed a century ago. Leave it to the Ives (joined by pianist William Wellborn for the quintet) to arrange her Bay Area comeback.

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