BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 (arr. Konopka)

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and the Orchestra showcase the demanding vision of Bartók’s Third String Quartet — a score he devoured during his tumultuous Chicago adolescence, a time when “Bartók became kind of my Metallica.” Presented here in violist Stanley Konopka premiere of his new arrangement. Experience this piece, now amplified for double string orchestra, swell to symphonic scale, taking on the expanded sonority long envisioned by Konopka.