Concerts on the Slope presents: Songs of America

March starts a set of three concerts featuring Clarice Assad and the three Mendelssohn Opus 44 string quartets. This afternoon will start with Benjamin Britten’s arrangement of Purcell’s Chacony, then Assad’s Canções da America, a work in 6 movements. Wrapping up the concert will be Mendelssohn’s ebullient String Quartet in D Major, a work so brilliant and bright it seems to call the spring into being.