Coolidge Commissions: Britten and Prokofiev

Sunday August 17, 2pm

Rochester Art Center

30 Civic Center Drive SE

Rochester, MN 55904

Benjamin Britten

String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 (1941)

V. Andante sostenuto - Allegro vivo

VI. Allegro con slancio

VII. Andante calmo

VII. Molto vivace

*commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge

Hanns Eisler

Selections from The Hollywood Songbook (1943)

Sergei Prokofiev

String Quartet No. 1 in B minor (1931)

IV. Allegro

V. Andante molto

VI. Andante

*commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation of the Library of Congress