A concert of unique music and instrumentation: Bartók’s Contrasts, written for jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman in 1938; George Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn (1966); Undine Smith Moore’s Afro-American Suite.

Duke University’s Quartet in Residence brings Schubert’s Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden” to EEC for the first time, and a seminal 20th century work by Béla Bartók, his 4th String Quartet. The program opens with Anthony Kelley’s Sidelines, a playful tribute to his more athletically inclined siblings.

With “tautness, flair, and precision”, this New England-based group opens the season with two masterpieces: Brahms’ Opus 8 Trio in B major, and the E-flat piano quartet of Mozart, joined by Artistic Director Jonathan Bagg on viola.