Their program is centered on two world-premiere commissions for narrator and string quartet honoring visionaries who helped shape our nation – champion of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is celebrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon; environmental trailblazer Rachel Carson by Grammy nominee Gabriela Lena Frank, whose first opera premieres at the Met in May. The evening culminates in Weaver’s reading of an excerpt from one of Beethoven’s letters before a performance of his Op. 130 Quartet and groundbreaking Grosse Fuge – a revolutionary masterpiece that reinforces the spirit of this inspiring program.