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Around & About--Music--Two Chamber Concerts Coming Up ...

Ken Bullock
Friday May 20, 2016 - 04:10:00 PM

Two chamber concerts of interest this coming week: 

Berkeley Chamber Performances will present the Telegraph Quartet on Tuesday at the Berkeley City Club Ballroom, 2315 Durant, between Ellsworth & Dana. 

The program will be Beethoven's Quartet in E minor, Opus 59,No. 2, the "Razumovsky" Quartet (1806), the darkest, most exotic of the three Opus 59 quartets; Benjamin Britten's Three Divertimenti (Go play, boy, play--1933) & Leon Kircher's String Quartet No. 1 (1949). 

The Telegraph Quartet is Eric Chin & Joseph Maille, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; and Jeremiah Shaw, cello. 

Following the concert there will be a complimentary wine & cheese reception with a chance to meet and speak with the artists. 

Tickets: $30 general; high school students, free; post-high school students, $ $15. 525-5211; www.berkeleychamberperform.org 

The Peregrine Quartet, sponsored by the Palomarin Foundation, will play Beethoven's Quartet in A minor, Opus 132 in five movements (1825) and Brahms' Quartet in C minor, Opus 51, No. 1 (1865-70), Friday, May 27, at 8 p. m., at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Berkley, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington. 

The Peregrine Quarte is Tammie Dyer & Tingting Gu, violins; Alexander Volonts, viola; & Burke Schuchmann, cello. 

Tickets: $25. 234-4502; email: palomarin.music@gmail.com