The Newport String Project will present the second weekend of its Newport County Concert Series with performances on Saturday, Dec. 6, and Sunday, Dec. 7, featuring the Newport String Quartet.
The Saturday concert will be held at 2 p.m. at Four Corners Arts Center, 3848 Main Road, Tiverton. The Sunday performance will take place at 2 p.m. at Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Avenue.
The program will showcase works by Felix Mendelssohn, Maddalena Sirmen, Alan Hovhaness and Thomas Oboe Lee, performed by the quartet’s members: violinists Ealaín McMullin and Kenneth Trotter, violist Florrie Marshall and cellist Chelsea Bernstein.
The centerpiece of the program is Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2, which the project describes as dramatic and melody-filled, displaying the composer at the height of his powers.
The concert will also feature a rarely heard string quartet by 18th-century composer Maddalena Lombadini Sirmen, alongside Hovhaness’s “Four Bagatelles” and Lee’s “Morango almost a Tango.”
According to the press release, the moody and atmospheric program is designed to enrich the festive season.
Tickets are available at newportstringproject.org.