
Apollo Music Festival
Sundays, August 17 & 24 | 2pm

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
Learn more: https://www.apollomusicfestival.com/august-17
Beethoven’s Razumovsky String Quartet
Sunday August 24, 2pm
Rochester Art Center
30 Civic Center Drive SE
Rochester, MN 559043
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59/1 (1808)
V. Allegro
VI. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
VII. Adagio molto e mesto
VIII. Theme Russe. Allegro
*commissioned by Andrey Razumovsky
Learn more: https://www.apollomusicfestival.com/august-24