Claude Debussy’s experiments in harmony and form changed the course of music history in a creative career stretching from 1890 to 1917. Principal Flute Linda Lukas plays Syrinx, a sinuous solo, which was originally intended as offstage music during a play but would come to redefine the capabilities of the modern instrument. The Edgar M. Bronfman String Quartet will then play the composer’s String Quartet, a tonally shifty and equally groundbreaking work whose sensual impressionism, in the words of Pierre Boulez, freed chamber music from its “frozen rhetoric and rigid aesthetics.”