The Hausmann Quartet’s latest installment of its Haydn Voyages at the San Diego Maritime Museum on Sunday, March 31, offered a pair of Haydn String Quartets—including the beloved C Major “Emperor”—a plush work by Terry Riley called “G Song,” and three Armenian Folk Songs arranged for string quartet. I was quite taken by Riley’s “G Song,” written for the San Francisco based Kronos Quartet in the 1980s when both were in residence at Oakland’s Mills College. Riley’s dense, linear textures rippled along breathlessly, and Hausmann communicated the composer’s rapturous lyricism with suave conviction. I heard the piece as a chaconne,…