Thr Newport String Project will present “Musical Pioneers”, an evocative program featuring chamber works by trailblazing composers including Franz Joseph Haydn, Grazyna Bacewicz and George Walker. Join the musicians of the Newport String Project for an exploration of Haydn’s transformative impact on the genre of the string quartet.

The event will also feature a performance of Grazyna Bacewicz’s Suite for Two Violins, which received its premiere at an underground concert in Warsaw in 1943. The program will conclude with String Quartet No. 1 by George Walker, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

PROGRAM

• Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet op. 1 no. 1.
• Grazyna Bacewicz Suite for Two Violins
• George Walker String Quartet No. 1

All proceeds support the educational and performance activities of the Newport String Project.