The DaPonte String Quartet kicks off its 30th season with a three-stop concert tour, performing one of the pillars of string quartet literature: Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” The first performance will take place at the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland on Nov. 6.

This concert program, entitled “Bookends” for its theme of beginnings and endings, marks the emergence of the quartet after a summer of concerts in Maine’s rural coastal venues, and a winter of online filmed concert programs. The tour will also include a performance at the newly renovated Meetinghouse Arts theater in Freeport Nov. 13, as well as St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Newcastle Nov. 14.

The “beginning” element of the concert program is a contemporary work, “Chapter One” by Reinaldo Moya, who was recently awarded the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation’s Composer Award.

The “ending” is represented in this program with a seminal work in the string quartet literature, Franz Schubert’s String Quartet in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden,” based on Matthias Claudius’ poem about a maiden pleading with Death to pass her by.

Tickets are available at a ten percent discount online at daponte.org, or full price at the door. Students under 21 are free. The program will be presented without intermission, and patrons are asked to please wear masks.

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