Chamber Music Quad Cities' 2025-26 concert season concludes with a nod to the impending 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: "Americana/Austriana" features works by American composers Charles Ives and Shawn Okpebholo, as well as two works written in Austria just a few years after the signing of the Declaration, by the Viennese classicists Haydn and Beethoven. The Ives Fourth Violin Sonata, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting," evokes the exuberance of children as they are let loose at a 19th-century religious gathering, while Shawn Okpebholo's sunny, diatonic "Beautiful City" uses the piano trio to project a sunny, playful optimism. The concert opens with a string trio by Haydn and closes with Beethoven's E-flat Major Piano Quartet.
The concert will take place at the Trinity Episcopal Parish Hall in Davenport on Saturday, March 28 at 7:00 p.m.

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Chamber Music Quad Cities—known familiarly as CMQC—presents classical concert music at affordable prices in comfortable settings. An outgrowth of many years of concert-giving in the Quad Cities by Davenport natives Gregory and Thomas Sauer, CMQC was founded in 1994. Together with pianist Robert Satterlee, the Sauer brothers established Chamber Music Quad Cities as a non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation in that year. Support from the community has been consistent to this day. Violinist David Bowlin assumed the artistic direction of CMQC in 2007; upon his departure in the summer of 2017, the Sauer brothers returned as Artistic Co-Directors.

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