The Newport String Project will present the fourth installment of its Newport County Concert Series on Saturday, May 2, at Rough Point in Newport and Sunday, May 3, at United Congregational Church in Little Compton.
Both performances feature the project’s resident ensemble, the Newport String Quartet — violinists Ealaín McMullin and Kenneth Trotter, violist Florrie Marshall and cellist Chelsea Bernstein — in a program spanning three centuries of chamber music.
The concert opens with selections from J.S. Bach’s “The Art of Fugue,” one of the final works the composer ever wrote. Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima,” follows — a piece drawn from Glass’s score for Paul Schrader’s 1985 film about the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The program closes with Robert Schumann’s String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, composed in 1842 during a period of creative outpouring that followed his marriage to Clara Schumann.
The Saturday performance at Rough Point, 680 Bellevue Ave., begins at 5:30 p.m. The Sunday performance at United Congregational Church, 1 Commons St. in Little Compton, begins at 3 p.m.
Tickets for both concerts are available at newportstringproject.org.
