DaPonte String Quartet to perform final series of season in May

BRUNSWICK — The DaPonte String Quartet’s final series of the season will be performed in southern and midcoast Maine from May 5 to 13.
The series will explore three different kinds of obsession in works by Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert, and Bela Bartok. “Obsessions” has five performances, in Boothbay Harbor, Brunswick, Portland, Rockport, and Damariscotta.

While Wolf’s “Italian Serenade” is a light-hearted look at young men smitten by love, Bartok’s Quartet No. 2 is a reflection of his obsession with the folk music of his native Hungary. And words like “enormous,” “massive,” and “monumental” are always used to describe Schubert’s Quartet No. 15 in G Major, written in the last year of his tragically brief life.
The quartet will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 6, at the Unitarian Church, 15 Pleast St., Brunswick. Other performances are 4 p.m., Saturday, May 5, St. Columba’s Church, 32 Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 10, Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland; 7 p.m. Friday, May 11, Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St., Rockport; and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 13, Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St., Damariscotta.
The DaPonte String Quartet was founded in 1991 in Philadelphia and moved to Maine more than 20 years ago. It performs more than 50 times a year state-wide and year-round, as well as touring the Northeast.
For ticket or other information, visit www.DaPonte.org or call 207-529-4555.