The DaPonte String Quartet’s final series of the season explores three very different kinds of obsession in works by Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert, and Bela Bartok.  “Obsessions” has five performances, from May 5-13, 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.

Performances of “Obsessions” are:

• May 5 – 4 p.m. – St. Columba’s Church, 32 Emery Lane, Boothbay Harbor; 
• May 6 – 3 p.m. – Unitarian Church, 15 Pleasant St., Brunswick;
• May 10 – 7:30 p.m. – Jewish Museum, 267 Congress St., Portland;
• May 11 – 7 p.m. – Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St., Rockport; and
• May 13 -- 3 p.m. – Lincoln Theater, 2 Theater St., Damariscotta.

The DaPonte String Quartet is Maine’s premier string ensemble. Founded in 1991 in Philadelphia, it moved to Maine over 20 years ago and now performs more than 50 times a year state-wide and year-round, as well as touring the Northeast.   

Tickets are $25, and are available at www.DaPonte.org, at Sherman’s Books in Damariscotta, Camden, and Boothbay Harbor; Longfellow Books in Portland; or Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick. More information: 529-4555.