Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime: Folk Beats

The Hausmann Quartet and Maritime Museum of San Diego are excited to partner to present the seventh season of Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime, a quarterly concert series performed aboard one of the Museum’s historic world-class vessels, the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley that operated for 60 years on San Francisco Bay.

Concert Lineup:

• Bela Bartok’s Third String Quartet (1927) - his shortest, yet packs incredible power and variety in its use of raucous dance rhythms and haunting melodies.
• Haydn quartets (opus 17/6 and 64/6) - both feature creative use of popular idioms and tunes, with Haydn’s characteristic blend of the most fashionable trends of the time and more rustic, everyday folk material.
• Shelley Washington’s Middleground (from 2016) - a celebration and reminiscence of places and feelings from the composer’s upbringing, “the space grounded, the between, the center[…]Home of the heart, heart of the home.”

All concerts are Sundays at 2:30, and include an intermission for a total length of under two hours. Each creative program will also include informative and entertaining commentary between selections from noted UC Santa Barbara musicologist Derek Katz.

Masks will be required for all performers and audience members until further notice.