Symposium on Beethoven’s String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131

10:00 AM	Marshall Room	855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston	Open Rehearsal of Beethoven String Quartet, op. 131
4:00-6:30 PM	Marshall Room	855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston	Formal Presentation of Research Papers by Lewis Lockwood, Barbara Barry, Jens Dufner, and Nicholas Kitchen. Moderated by Jeremy Yudkin. Jens Dufner, Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, “Do We Have a Composing Score of Op. 131? The Genesis of the Andante Movement Respondent: Lewis Lockwood, Boston University Barbara Barry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, “Beethoven’s C-sharp-minor Quartet, Op. 131, “quasi una fantasia” Respondent: Alan Gosman, University of Arkansas Nicholas Kitchen, Borromeo Quartet, Boston, “Manuscript Markings in Beethoven’s Op. 131” Respondent: David Levy, Wake Forest University
8:00 PM	Concert Hall	855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston	Performance of String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, op. 131 Victor Yen and Yena Lee, violinsDavid Mason, violaHyun Ji Kwon (BU faculty) cello Preceded by performance of string arrangements of the C-sharp minor, B-flat minor, and B-minor preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book I performed by the Borromeo Quartet with Nitzan Gal, second cello.
9:00 AM- Noon	Seminar Room	808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston	Round-Table Discussion of Op. 131 Barbara Barry, Jens Dufner, Alan Gosman, Bayla Keyes, Nicholas Kitchen, David Levy, Lewis Lockwood, Megan Ross, Jeremy Yudkin, and Peter Zazofsky.