| 单词 | string quartet |
| 例句 | And I was busy, much of my time spent practicing or playing in a string quartet or taking theory classes at the community college. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “A string quartet, and all the men in their elegant new officers’ uniforms. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They went to plays and operas and concerts in the parks, listened to string quartets and piano recitals in office-building lobbies, attended movie screenings, and visited museums. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s a string quartet on this track that makes my hair stand on end, and some of the melodies and harmonies are so rich, my eyes literally prickle with tears. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z People in New York loved art and music so much, she said, that artists sold paintings right on the sidewalk next to string quartets playing Mozart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Bridge’s mother was on an Amtrak train, coming home from a performance in Boston with her string quartet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “I can’t. I’m playing in a string quartet at some professor’s house. What about next weekend?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Working with a string quartet and a handful of M.C.s and poets, as well as his jazz combo, Mr. Akinmusire makes music in mid-blossom, often nearing resolution but never totally breaking through. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z I once helped out on a photoshoot, posing a group of models to look like a string quartet. A violinist's view on A Late Quartet 2013-04-16T05:00:01Z Chemistry is paramount in a string quartet, especially one with so distinguished a legacy. Music Review: Juilliard String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-27T23:03:45Z Working in most of his career in a Hungarian court, Haydn created the models for modern symphony and string quartet. Gustavo Dudamel's inner Hungarian returns 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But it did so with a difference, joining other groups that in their various ways raise a question whether the technical mastery of today’s string quartets has outstripped traditional challenges. Chamber Music With a Challenge: Playing From Memory 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z This is, in other words, the ideal string quartet. Hagen Quartet shows exquisite unity in rare SoCal concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Instead of using his full ensemble, he led a string quartet from the harpsichord, billed as the Sinfonia New York Chamber Players. Music Review: Sacred Works by Pergolesi at Church of the Epiphany 2010-03-29T21:11:00Z There was a string quartet at the Onion’s party at the Newseum. It’s not a party without Joe Biden: Scenes from the correspondents’ dinner aftermath 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The festival enters its final stretch next week with plenty of goodies, including an American-flavored program on July 22 and a string quartet emphasis in the last two concerts. Britten dazzles at Seattle Chamber Music Society festival 2013-07-16T19:09:15Z These three young Danes and their Norwegian friend conclude their survey of the Beethoven string quartets with some of the works that have drawn them such widespread acclaim. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But just such a combination — Kayhan Kalhor, an Iranian musician, will perform with the New York-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider — is what makes the Strings of Autumn festival one of Prague’s most innovative musical undertakings. Prague Music Festival Transcends Genre 2010-09-08T10:00:00Z Then it was time for the helicopter string quartet, and suddenly the mystery and the childlike wonder disappeared. Mittwoch aus Licht; BBC Proms 50 & 51 – review 2012-08-25T23:06:12Z We tend to think of Joseph Haydn as a consolidator: the composer who drew together numerous musical currents to perfect the symphony and the string quartet, defining forms of the Classical and Romantic eras. Review: Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words of Christ,’ by 2 String Quartets 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The scrappy house orchestra was the Knights from Brooklyn, along with its affiliated string quartet, Brooklyn Rider. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z At a certain point in a complete musical traversal — of all Shostakovich’s string quartets, say, or all nine Beethoven symphonies — you inevitably reach the less popular works. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev’s Overlooked Piano Sonatas 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z There was no reading taking place, but a string quartet from the Golden Gate Philharmonic, a nonprofit youth orchestra, was playing in the spacious but cozy bar. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z In intuiting the shape of things to come with his reimagined string quartet, Mr. Harrington had a hand in inventing the future. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z The duo — who were accompanied by a string quartet and Edge's laptop — closed with "Miss Sarajevo." Gaga channels Marilyn Monroe at Clinton's concert 2011-10-17T13:28:21Z Snow and slush didn’t daunt the enthusiastic audience on hand at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday night for a performance by the Takacs Quartet, one of the most esteemed and beloved string quartets today. Review | Takacs Quartet delivers buoyant Mozart 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The program also presented the New York premiere of Mr. Adams’s “Absolute Jest” for string quartet and orchestra, composed last year. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z Music of Remembrance’s free “concerts-with-commentary” series, “Sparks of Glory,” returns on Saturday with Steve Reich’s “Different Trains” for string quartet and taped speech and sound effects. Free recital of Steve Reich’s ‘Different Trains’ 2013-01-24T23:14:35Z The library displayed the manuscript of Anton Webern’s youthful string quartet in the case outside the auditorium, and the musicians scrupulously observed the many markings of soft and very soft in it. Touring Marlboro string quartet delights in first half of program 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Best known of his scant instrumental catalog is the charming “Italian Serenade” for string quartet, which he later arranged for string orchestra. Music Review: Devoted to Echoes of a Composer?s Brief Career 2011-03-27T23:07:15Z Fetchingly ramshackle, the wooden hall offers an acoustic that is as comfortable for string quartets as for the festival’s orchestra, and it draws an audience that listens closely. A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z After that, I started receiving my first invitations to do concerts – mostly classical, accompanied by symphony orchestras, string quartets or, sometimes, just a piano. Experience: I’m a world-class whistler 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Florence Price’s “Five Folksongs in Counterpoint,” arrangements of spirituals for string quartet, opens the program. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The Ardittis will reveal if that is the case in his latest string quartet on Friday. This week's new live music 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Both quartets were published while Beethoven was in his 30s, and they show how remarkably quickly he was able to expand the scope, ambition and demands of the Haydn and Mozart string quartet model. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Here it will be arranged for string quartet and quintet, and performed by Le Poisson Rouge’s chamber ensemble. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The British cellist Paul Watkins will take the place of David Finckel, who is off to fulfil musical callings beyond the world of the string quartet. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z When most of the musicians switched to later types of bows for Félicien David’s first string quartet, from 1868, the difference in sound was striking. Musicians strive for authenticity by bowing to the past 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z For more than a decade, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider has been presenting adventurous programs of contemporary music and collaborating with diverse artists from within and beyond the classical sphere. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Among the lessons we have learned from the pandemic is that orchestral programming doesn’t need to be formulaic, that a string quartet can easily share the stage with a symphony. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z "Petrichor," set to a Villa-Lobos string quartet, features eight dancers. Mark Morris returns to Seattle with 'Back on the Boards' 2012-09-27T20:24:07Z Listening to a string quartet turned into a string symphony is a lot like watching chocolate syrup being added to milk. Review: American String Project mixes things up this year, resulting in memorable moments 2010-05-21T19:16:00Z But that’s not enough even if you, like me, presume the Juilliard under Mann the greatest string quartet of all time. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Schubert’s gravely beautiful “Death and the Maiden” sounded Mahlerian and starkly ominous, with Mr. Goerne, his voice dark and expressive, backed by a string quartet and bass instead of a piano. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z This Renaissance ensemble is also in residence at the Met this year, in a position typically held by a string quartet. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Nor has her string quartet, quartet-lab, as breathtakingly fresh an ensemble as any I've heard lately, come to the States or made recordings. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z We try wherever possible to get artists to do something completely different – like Andrew Weatherall in conversation on the piazza, or Tim Burgess performing with a string quartet in the town hall. The joy of Festival No 6 2013-05-10T23:00:05Z For its Washington debut, Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater brought along a string quartet, treating the audience at Sidney Harman Hall on Saturday night to an uncommon luxury. A grand duo in Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater and Attacca Quartet 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z For an archetypally classical genre that peaked nearly two centuries ago, the new string quartet remains in surprisingly rude health. Arditti Quartet/JACK Quartet – review 2013-05-07T17:57:04Z Five years after "Sunrise," Riley had become so engrossed in the string quartet that he'd begun work on a cycle of five quartets lasting two hours in performance. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z “You lead like the first violinist in a string quartet,” Mr. Dicterow said. Glenn Dicterow Discusses Leaving New York Philharmonic 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Alternatively loud and lyrical, using a dulcimer strung with barbed wire and crutches played like a cello as well as a string quartet, "Lament" portrays the horror of the 1914-18 war without patriotism or nostalgia. German industrial band raises ghosts of World War One in 'Lament' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Of the music pieces, Andy Akiho’s “LIgNEouS 1,” for string quartet and marimba, was dramatic in composition, with ostinato patterns repeatedly swelling and spilling over, but it was most distinctive in its sonorities. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z It’s not a commentary on the affinities between jazz and chamber music, whatever the involvement of Osso, a string quartet, might seem to imply. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z He was also a complete cosmopolitan, and the contentiousness of city life also went into Mann’s string quartet compulsiveness. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The tunes are all based in the Jewish scales; the style runs all over the place, from post-bop jazz to string quartets to electric blowouts. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z At a time when so much is written about the importance of reducing our footprint on the earth, he had managed to compose a zero-fingerprint string quartet of startling complexity and beauty. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Dodgson's seven piano sonatas have been championed and recorded by Bernard Roberts, and his eight string quartets likewise by the Tippett String Quartet. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z Saturday was another rewarding afternoon at the Olympic Music Festival devoted to string quartets. Review: More Olympian music-making at Quilcene's Olympic Music Festival 2010-08-09T17:48:00Z The violin sonatas are unusual, compared with the string quartets or piano sonatas, in that they don’t span the length of the composer’s career. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z The excellent string quartet Brooklyn Rider accompanied the dancers on the Kay Theatre stage. Review | Wendy Whelan: Ex-ballerina refuses to play it safe in her dazzling second act 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z The program concluded with Beethoven’s Septet in E flat for winds and strings, a popular work during the composer’s lifetime, frequently performed at salons and marketed in versions for piano, string quartet and guitar duet. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Presents ‘Classical Flowering’ 2014-01-27T22:53:01Z We are spoiled for choice with youngish string quartets at the moment, but this foursome is particularly fine. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z According to experts, the most difficult string quartet ever written is Ben Johnston’s Quartet No. 7. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Lerdahl calls the string quartet the “most personal and psychological of musical media.” Music Review: Spiral Form and Other Compositional Modes of Fred Lerdahl 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z One is a brief piece for violin and viola, “Capricci,” the other a more ambitious work for percussion and string quartet, “Selene.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But his efforts established the intimacy, flexibility and expressiveness that made the string quartet a medium capable of encompassing his own congeniality and craft, Beethoven’s stormy spirit, Shostakovich’s hidden turmoil and Elliott Carter’s fearsome concatenations. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z He decided to try out “a beta performance” with a string quartet in the Miami-Dade County government center in May. It?s Not Candid Camera, It?s Random Culture 2011-02-05T22:18:03Z The singer will be performing original compositions — arranged for a live string quartet — as well as tunes by Juan Gabriel, David Bowie and Harry Nilssen. Datebook: LACMA's new gifts, a show about performance, a special screening of 'Nosferatu' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There's a string quartet and a thrash metal trio; a lounge band who sound like they're playing Charlie Brown themes; and an a cappella quintet who sound like a medieval Andrews Singers. John Zorn – review 2013-07-14T15:00:01Z This one was played just by the string quartet. Music Review: Windscape and Orion String Quartet at Town Hall - Review 2012-01-09T22:45:52Z A few weeks ago he premiered a string quartet at the Wigmore Hall. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z Originally written as a violin solo, “Flow” was here crosshatched with close harmonies, which at times made the string quartet sound like a harmonica. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z His sixth and most recent string quartet is no exception. Arditti Quartet/Jake Arditti - review 2011-02-06T17:46:12Z “Banner,” scored for a string quartet and string ensemble, concluded a rewarding 90-minute program of recent American works. Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The songs and the eerily ethereal string quartet music are sensational, as is Coates' Tenth Symphony. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Even a 20-minute Haydn string quartet requires you to focus in order to grasp the structure, content and character. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Two string quartets have defined New York’s new-music scene over the past decade. A New Season for Reshuffled, Mature String Quartets 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Bartók was at the time neglected, his six string quartets little known. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “A string quartet is pretty portable,” said Ruth Felt, the president and founder of San Francisco Performances, a presenter of chamber music concerts in the Bay Area. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z Milton is constantly on the lookout for new string quartets to anchor the festival. Chamber Music Festival to warm listeners at Northwestern 2011-01-05T00:21:00Z A cycle of Bartok’s six string quartets by the Calder Quartet in the Rogers Auditorium might at first glance seem a throwback to the old regime. ArtsBeat: Next Concert Season at the Met Will Include Music in Galleries 2013-04-30T20:03:26Z When I got this commission from the Munich Chamber Orchestra, I thought, ‘Great — it’s the next step after the string quartets.’ Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z Salome Dances for Peace is a sensuous but epic 100-minute cycle for string quartet; Sun Rings is an even bigger set of pieces for quartet, choir, visuals and the sounds of space. A guide to Terry Riley's music 2013-01-28T16:06:11Z The hosts, Randy and Lisa Wilson, organized the Generations of Light Purity Ball, a glamorous occasion with floral centerpieces, a string quartet, dining, dancing, and beautiful decorations throughout the hall. Sex and the single evangelical: Purity balls, odd daddy roles, and saving it for Jesus Christ 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z The other instruments play fluty figures, as though a kind of string quartet birdsong might be a freeing agent. Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z There will also be a celebration of the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez, with his works paired with the six string quartets of Bartok, whose Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, fittingly, concludes the festival. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Two of Ms. Lash’s works for string quartet, “Four Still” and “Frayed,” complete the program, which will be repeated on Saturday. Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z The Doric is one of the most accomplished young string quartets around, which is saying something at a time when we’re inundated with them. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The six string quartets of his Opus 1 were among the first in that genre to be written in France. His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The string quartet literature is too vast for any group to ever fully explore, so adding transcriptions seems like a misplaced effort to me. A fine evening with New Zealand Quartet 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z A dancer twists her body around a cellist as he performs one of Bach’s famous solo suites; a string quartet plays Beethoven’s monumental late music between readings of poetry. The Week in Arts: Elton John, Ethan Hawke, ‘Imagining Madoff’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Done in oil on tin backed by slate, it depicts a string quartet of members of the Kansas City Symphony giving a recital in the artist’s living room, which evidently happened often. Art Review: The Cornucopia Known as the Winter Antiques Show 2014-01-23T22:45:34Z Huge opera companies furloughed orchestras and choruses; tiny groups like string quartets were threatened with collapse. Neither Big Nor Small, Music Ensembles Struggle in a Pandemic 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z JACK's own excellent reputation preceded them, too, thanks to their CD survey of Xenakis's string quartets released two years ago. JACK Quartet ? review 2011-08-01T17:31:40Z Photograph: Mark Hemsworth "I hear you can drink champagne naked here while being serenaded by a string quartet." Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire 2011-08-15T14:01:32Z Out of the blue, Farran is approached in an enigmatic fashion by a famous string quartet. ‘The Tooth Tattoo’: music and murder on Inspector Diamond’s mind 2013-05-02T21:26:57Z He’s bringing a string quartet to play four pieces he’s arranged, as well as his trio, with the bassist Linda Oh and the drummer Henry Cole. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z Mr. Cale stood behind a keyboard and a laptop, accompanied by a full band and a string quartet. At Paris Exhibition, Tracing the Roots of the Velvet Underground 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The music reaches its expressive apex in the section called "Asturianada," in which Rami Solomonow's eloquent viola suggested the mournful intensity of Shostakovich's string quartet writing. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z This is one of a handful of greatest recordings from arguably the greatest string quartet. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z On Saturday morning, a decidedly unusual head-turner took a spin: a gigantic violin, carrying a string quartet playing Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z A remarkable number of superb young string quartets have been formed in recent years, but piano trios have lagged behind, despite the rich repertory for the format. Music Review: Lysander Piano Trio Performs at Weill Recital Hall 2014-04-08T22:14:34Z But what if he were neither amateur nor any more outsider than Beethoven, who railed against the establishment with every new symphony, sonata or string quartet? The 24-hour Joshua Tree party to celebrate Lou Harrison's 100th birthday 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In a 2,500-seat auditorium, having a full string section play it is far more effective than a miked string quartet. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The programs, which place each of Britten’s three string quartets into context, were designed by the members of the Escher String Quartet with the same penetrating intelligence and curiosity that informs their playing. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z This highly regarded and venturesome string quartet offers more than a standard concert: a “Discovery” presentation of a Haydn quartet, complete with historical and musical details as well as the performance. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2018 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z I started writing a string quartet any time that kind of banging and sawing noise would happen. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Half a century ago, a string quartet formed in Vienna. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z This rewarding program was the second installment in the society’s series of complete cycles of string quartets by five composers. Review: Danish String Quartet Plays at the Rose Studio 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Here he offered a dexterous, expressively colored performance of the Allegro from Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, in a version for string quartet, double bass and marimba. Music Review: Celebrating 50 Years? Worth of Promising Talent 2011-02-21T23:03:25Z “I went onstage and he proposed. When I said yes, a string quartet played a song we wrote together. He hired a photographer and videographer. My parents were there. It was a whirlwind.” Becoming Teammates in Life and Business 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “Petrichor,” set to a string quartet by Villa-Lobos, is attractively shrewd problem-solving on Mr. Morris’s part, the problem being that the score has no sustained dance impulse. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z In refashioning the string quartet for a modern age, Mann made it possible for the Kronos to then instigate a second string quartet revolution. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z In the 1986 book “The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri String Quartet in Conversation With David Blum,” Mr. Soyer described the position of a cello in a string quartet as both base and bass. David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z On April 11, the Chiara String Quartet performs a concert of Bartok string quartets from memory at Harvard University’s Paine Hall in Cambridge, Mass.; Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z Is it all of Beethoven, or just one string quartet? 2010-02-17T15:05:00Z At the center of the program was “Helix Spirals,” a string quartet by Augusta Read Thomas premiered by the Parker Quartet in 2015 and recorded for Nimbus last year. Review | National Gallery’s East Garden Court doesn’t do any favors for Parker Quartet 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Shostakovich’s third string quartet worked better in this regard, with clearer textures allowing the musicians to hear one another and align their parts. Review | National Gallery’s East Garden Court doesn’t do any favors for Parker Quartet 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Haydn is often called the father of the string quartet, and even if some musicologists have cast doubt on his paternity by pointing to antecedents, his importance in creating the form cannot be overstated. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I also began and completed another concert-length work titled “Ten Thousand Birds,” and I composed my second string quartet. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Last Thursday, Ms. Bruning’s intimate Chamber Dance Project, featuring a string quartet and dancers from companies including the Washington Ballet and the Atlanta Ballet, performed a selection of small-scale works that left scant impression. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z It is a surprisingly sad text, and the setting for a small chorus and string quartet is hauntingly effective with vocal lines intoned on few pitches over a narrow range. L.A. Master Chorale caps its 50th season with three new works 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z On Monday, at an opera house in Barcelona, a string quartet played to an audience of 2,292 potted plants. Everything is fine and normal. Just ask the mannequin at the next table. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “Mutations I-X,” which he released on ECM this year, is a suite for piano, electronics and string quartet. Jazz Pianist’s Multiple Worlds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Next season, there’s a predictable Beethoven string quartet cycle, but various ensembles will also play the complete quartets of Zemlinsky, Bartok, Nielsen, Ginastera and Leon Kirchner. Review: Emerson String Quartet Caps Banner Season With Works of Mixed Emotions 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Also on the docket are “Resounding Earth,” a percussion symphony of sorts, and an excerpt from “Sun Threads” for string quartet. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z On Thursday, the Emerson String Quartet plays the last five of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Yet it is a mainstay of the string quartet repertory. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z In his last months, Mr. Johnson completed a final composition: a wholly acoustic work for string quartet and mezzo-soprano. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z A young trumpeter at the top of his game, Akinmusire is coming off the release of last year’s “Origami Harvest,” his stellar fifth album, featuring long-form compositions for voice, string quartet and jazz combo. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Pubs were the first port of call, with a string quartet. Multi-Story Orchestra Turns a Parking Garage Into a Concert Hall 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The singers and musicians – three in Monk's ensemble, plus the Elysian string quartet – move constantly, creating exquisite patterns and complex relationships on the stage. Songs of Ascension 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z When he learned of a new recording of the complete Schoenberg string quartets played by the Juilliard String Quartet, he ordered four copies. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The series of single-movement works began with Chorus and Orchestra I and II, and included works for string quartet, flute, oboe and cello before ending in 1979 with Violin and Orchestra. Feldman: Violin and Orchestra – review 2013-05-16T21:14:01Z But beyond Kronos, an astonishing array of eclectic string quartets make their home in the region. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z On Thursday evening, two eminent string quartets presented premieres in New York. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z A string quartet accompanied her as photos of Prince flashed in the background. Billboard Music Awards 2016: The Best and the Worst Moments 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The piano also served percussive ends in “Ro/Serenity,” with a string quartet, bass flute and bass clarinet fusing into a gaseous body. Music Review: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Works at Columbia’s Miller Theater 2013-12-10T22:48:24Z The exultant, lyrical quality of the violinist Leroy Jenkins’s “Revival” serves as a reminder of his skill in writing for string quartet. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps because of its unusual scoring for mezzo-soprano and string quartet, Ottorino Respighi's setting of Shelley's poem The Sunset, translated into Italian as Il Tramonto, doesn't get many outings. Anna Caterina Antonacci – review 2013-05-10T17:01:55Z The metaphor for the fast ending might be the string quartet as particle accelerator, shooting "Diabelli" particles into each other and seeing what new particles with dazzlingly strange properties might result. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z She intersperses movements from her fifth, eighth and ninth string quartets with songs she has written over the last 50 years, mostly to Dickinson texts and inventively accompanied by piano, percussion and string quartet. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z The otherworldly character of Mr. Carter’s two “Fragments” for string quartet, written in the 1990s, was illuminated with similar delicacy. Review: The Pacifica Quartet Interprets Composers’ ‘Last Words’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z As a string quartet junkie and evangelist, I’m always looking to lure new fans to this world. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z On Thursday evening, for the first time, the Emerson played the last five of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets in a single concert, in Seiji Ozawa Hall here at Tanglewood. The Emerson Plays Shostakovich at Tanglewood 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “Scream” pits a lightly amplified string quartet against a full orchestra. Seattle Symphony strikes somber note with pairing of ‘4’33,’ ‘My Beautiful Scream’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z That night the players — young men in jeans and T-shirts — gave viscerally exciting performances of the complete works for string quartet by the thorny modernist composer Iannis Xenakis. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z Little is composing the piece specifically with Timur and the Dime Museum in mind, adding only a string quartet for color. 'David Lynch, the Musical'? Not quite, but close, in 'Artaud in the Black Lodge' 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z I can imagine Mozart happily sipping wine at the Kaplan Penthouse while hearing a Bach partita for solo violin or being shaken and fascinated by a Thomas Adès string quartet. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z I’m still hoping to learn the Janacek string quartets and play them in a concert someday. Ljova?s Straightforward Career Has Quirky Turns 2010-08-06T17:03:00Z The acclaimed quartet is touring to Seattle April 21 as part of its 40th anniversary season, with a program of string quartets by Shostakovich and Turnage, and Dvorák’s piano quintet with guest artist Craig Sheppard. 4 don’t-miss classical events around Seattle, April 14-21 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Now we want to convince those curious friends to love string quartets — the intimacy, intensity and joy of two violins, a viola and cello. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love String Quartets 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z I barely listen to classical music, so how did a live string quartet end up in my apartment on a Saturday night? I Went to My First Classical Music Concert. It Was in My Living Room. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Set for voice and string quartet, the work compresses a tragic life of operatic dimensions into a song cycle of great beauty and emotional resonance. Joyce DiDonato Celebrates Camille Claudel at Zankel Hall 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z For the next 37 years they played together, a remarkable record of longevity for a string quartet, in which tensions over music making, money and personal differences often cause breakups. David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z Last year he released a striking album, “Yo Soy La Tradición,” featuring music sourced largely from Puerto Rican folk traditions, retrofitted for saxophone and string quartet. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The reach of this modern-day salon is far beyond a string quartet or even, say, the DC Objectivist Salon, which gathers to discuss the writings of Ayn Rand. A hipster cultural salon for the short-attention-span generation 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z So how do the members of a young string quartet, even one with a growing performance schedule and a portfolio of excellent reviews, make a living? Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z Over the course of three concerts, one a month, the ensemble plays an early and a middle-period Beethoven string quartet, with something new by an emerging composer inserted in between. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z A respected New York string quartet is struck by an excess of issues here: terminal illness, infidelity, professional jealousy, you name it. This week's new films 2013-04-06T05:00:08Z And so he became a well-known collaborative artist, playing in a duo with the harpsichordist Thurston Dart, as well as in string quartets and trios. Neville Marriner, who led renowned Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z This orchestra's members can form any ensembles they like and still sell out concerts at a pace to make the best-established string quartets grind their teeth. Berlin Philharmonic residency ? review 2011-02-21T00:54:14Z Nor was mixing small earlier Boulez pieces with Bartók string quartets in early evening concerts illuminating. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It was an entirely different string quartet that returned for the performance of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with Mr. Frost. Martin Frost at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z For example, because you have two cellos and two violins, you can have symmetrical configurations you can’t get with a top-heavy string quartet.” Adventurous JACK Quartet returns to Seattle June 11 2013-06-10T17:48:30Z As an evolving young string quartet, the Danish provides inevitably young Beethoven and inevitability. Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Matt Mehlan recently composed a string quartet on a commission from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Music Review: Missy Mazzoli and Matt Mehlan in River to River Festival 2012-07-13T21:22:07Z On one hand, the Debussy piece is a staple of string quartet repertoire. Brooklyn Rider: String quartet goes all over the map 2012-01-27T19:00:07Z Holter, with a keyboard and a string quartet, was opulent and delicate – but Hecker and Lopatin created a huge, swelling, apocalyptic din, where orchestral samples were mangled and distorted with laptop noise. When the church turns into a pub 2012-12-27T08:00:05Z The orchestrated form of the “Lyric Suite,” originally for string quartet, contains three of its six sections, and the “Unfinished” was never completed beyond the first two movements. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z He was a born conductor, often seeming to conduct his string quartet performances onstage. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The next in the series presents the impressive young Afiara Quartet, formerly a resident string quartet at the Juilliard School and now based in Toronto. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:51:05Z Weinberg’s chamber music — including 17 string quartets and solo string sonatas for not just violin, viola and cello but also for double bass — is also rich in variety. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Unlike the cohesive string quartet, which tends to draw together like-minded and like-instrument players into long-lasting marriages, piano trios are seldom full-time enterprises. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The two Lincoln Center concerts this week feature a cappella works and a survey of his six string quartets. Turning 60, John Zorn Sees His Eclecticism as a Musical Norm 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z Works like “Quartet Plus Four” for jazz quartet and string quartet, and “Peace Movement,” a concerto for guitar and orchestra, were performed internationally and widely praised. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z The result was “My heart sings on,” an elegiac song for string quartet, musical saw and signing singers. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The streets are alive with the sound of music in this vibrant event, where you can stroll around the city and hear punk bands, hip-hop, opera, string quartets and mariachi echoing throughout the boroughs. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z Later, they found a secluded sculpture garden, where a string quartet was performing “Spring” from Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” Before Their Marriages Came These Proposals 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z These six works are by composers not associated with string quartets. Brodsky Quartet: In the South – review 2013-03-24T00:05:47Z In April, Lieberman will perform a show with a string quartet billed as “A Return to the Troubadour.” She sang ‘Killing Me Softly’ before Roberta Flack. Now she just wants you to hear her side of the story. 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z At the time Ms. Dorvillier chose Bach, but she soon started listening to Beethoven and particularly this string quartet. Dance: D D Dorvillier’s Beethoven Piece at the Kitchen 2012-09-23T04:57:45Z A version of the group heard on “Portals” — which incorporates a string quartet plus Davis’s regular improvising quintet — will appear at the Jazz Gallery on Sept. 10. For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z By 1962, he had composed a string quartet, while also playing with a trio that meandered through tempi and rhythms with him in vast organic compositions developed on the wing. Ornette Coleman’s Revolution 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Her mother is the executive director of Ethel’s Foundation for the Arts, which is in New York and supports the string quartet Ethel. Althea Webber, Michael Gruen 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z From a melancholy opening filled with swooping glissandos, the 20-minute string quartet emphasizes group virtuosity with jagged bursts of notes deployed in rhythmic unison, mostly at high velocity. Critic?s Notebook: Avoiding ?Moderato? Becomes a Style 2011-04-17T22:15:36Z First up was an all-female string quartet that played a series of Roumain’s compositions, including “Hip Hop Etudes,” that recall the samples and melodies of the titular genre. The good and the bad of mixing classical music and electronica 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z When the Attacca Quartet’s six-year survey of all 68 of Haydn’s string quartets ends on Thursday, the ensemble will have played, by its reckoning, roughly 32,000 measures of Haydn, lasting close to 24 hours. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z No one is ever going to say that Kronos Quartet is satisfied with the string quartet status quo. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Costello, perhaps, was not forgiven by the music press who wanted him to stay forever as a kind of lyrical punk agitator and not go off to write for string quartets. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z The string quartet has always been the four-part harmony ideal. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z I’d throw in the father of the string quartet and the piano sonata. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four 2011-01-10T17:10:24Z And new approaches to this amalgam have been thick on the ground of late: Just try to count how many young jazz musicians are writing for string quartet these days. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The string quartet version is the one generally heard these days, though not all that often. Review: Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words of Christ,’ by 2 String Quartets 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Between them, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble string quartet gently bopped bows against violins and cello, keeping time with the sinuous mechanized pulse. Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z On Friday night, Chen is appearing at the Musco Center for the Arts in Orange with his new string quartet, Made in Berlin. Violinist Ray Chen, 27, on his new group and classical music in the Instagram age 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The lineup includes the Mivos Quartet and the pianist Stephen Gosling playing works for string quartet, piano and electronics on Saturday. Classical & Opera Listings for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Performing the complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets is effectively a rite of passage: the Belcea Quartet, established in 1994, only embarked on it last year. Belcea Quartet/The Dark Magic of Angela Carter – review 2012-06-12T17:16:07Z Yet those who devote themselves to numbered string quartets or painterly abstractions should not feel pressure to forsake their destiny. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z For much of her career, she has focused on composing for string quartets and string ensembles. Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer-winning 'Anthracite Fields' makes its West Coast debut at Disney Hall 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s a crowded field for ambitious young string quartets. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z One implausible reason is because her symphonies and string quartets are so weird. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Among the performers are Owls, a string quartet, and the Westerlies, a brass quartet. Baryshnikov Arts Center Chooses Dance Veteran as Leader 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The intensity continued with Sebastian Currier’s “Next Atlantis” for string quartet and recorded sound, which received its New York premiere. Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber?s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum 2010-03-11T05:24:00Z A string quartet might briefly conjure the sound of pan flutes through clever use of harmonics. Part Teacher, Part Den Mother, a Composer Fosters Diversity 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Beethoven’s piano sonatas, like his string quartets, were personal statements that grew ever more inward. Review: Paul Lewis Powers Through a Beethoven Trilogy at White Light Festival 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It could be an opera, it could be a string quartet. A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn: A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn 2013-05-19T21:41:39Z For this ambitious program, the quartet performs Mr. Lachenmann’s complete works for string quartet. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:37:00Z The Juilliard String Quartet chose to mark its 45th anniversary in 1991 with a concert of all four Carter string quartets. Composer, Pulitzer winner Carter dies in NY at 103 2012-11-06T02:07:08Z “First Essay” is her fifth work for string quartet. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z There have been worldwide musical meditations over Zoom, string quartets lovingly reconstituted through editing software, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s regular “quarantine soirees.” The Bang on a Can Marathon, Still Lovably Scruffy Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z I will be looking to find a celebrated string quartet to take things to an irreducible minimum. Van Dyke Parks gives his 'final performance' on the piano 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Included on the program’s first half were four delectably folksy trifles for string quartet by Tsintsadze, a Georgian cellist and composer who died in 1991. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - Review 2011-12-19T23:04:37Z "There will be six male singers, a string quartet, I'll do some liturgical pieces, some stuff from movies, some of Champagne for Gypsies." Goran Bregovic: 'I want to remind people what Gypsy culture's given' 2013-03-08T08:00:04Z Mr. Sunwoo, 28, played Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in the final round, when each of the six remaining contestants performed first with a string quartet and then with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. South Korean Pianist Wins the Van Cliburn Competition 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Each week violin students get Skype lessons from music teachers in Germany and Armenia, funded by the German string quartet Salut Salon. A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children’s Lives 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z When, at the end of his life, he writes his desperately bleak and private string quartets, it's like having a pscyhoanalytic session with him. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z I love Britten's string quartet repertoire and there's not a lot of it, since he was mostly a vocal composer. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z The string quartet provided a foil for Ms. O’Connor’s brilliant flute playing in Sebastian Currier’s “Parallel Worlds,” a work co-commissioned by the society. Music Review: Something New From the Chamber Music Society 2014-04-18T22:24:21Z The string quartet sets each scene with a suitable music style. 'As One,' the every(wo)man transgender opera 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Most of Babbitt's music was written for small resources: solo piano, voice and chamber ensembles, including six string quartets. Milton Babbitt obituary 2011-01-30T18:29:19Z Haydn’s “Seven Last Words” is a string quartet originally written for church performance as an Easter meditation, with each movement responding to one of the exclamations Jesus made while being crucified. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z “I hope he can be released as soon as possible to return and fulfill his duties as a leading musician and a member of his string quartet,” Mr. Masur wrote. Bizarre Court Case Puts a Violinist, and Leipzig String Quartet, in an Unflattering Light 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Clyne’s complex, melodic score, with its echoes of several Beethoven string quartets and shimmers of sound, offers a similar juxtaposition of the known and unknown, fragments of history meeting a present-tense moment. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Crumb’s rarely performed, eerie and demonic “Black Angels” for electric string quartet is not to be missed. A 20th-century music marathon with ‘Untuxed’ and ‘[untitled]’ 2014-01-28T22:45:22Z What a fine series the bargain-basement Peoples’ Symphony has put together this season, particularly in terms of leading pianists and string quartets. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z She identifies each dancer as an instrument in the string quartet; they share patterns, steps, and meters. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z As an encore they paid homage to Haydn, the "father" of the string quartet, with the Scherzo from his Op 33 No 2, "The Joke". Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z The dissonant fugue sounds like the work of a madman, as shocking as the Grosse Fugue in Beethoven’s Opus 130 string quartet. Music Review: Chopin and Schumann, at 200, and Their Inspirations 2010-08-25T21:13:00Z A lone string quartet is among the handful of nonvocal works in Verdi’s huge catalog. Music Review: ChamberFest Lets Juilliard Students Show Off Skills 2014-01-14T22:32:14Z In addition to several film and television scores, he wrote works for symphony orchestra and string quartet as well as two stage musicals starring Ms. Laine, whom he married in 1958. 2010-02-11T06:21:00Z Riley, on the faculty at Mills College, had helped the young ensemble obtain a residency on the Oakland campus, and Harrington persisted in attempting to cajole Riley into writing a string quartet. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Even before the coronavirus, the string quartet was an endangered species. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z There is no reference in A Late Quartet’s credits to Hollinger’s play, so presumably the similarities can be chalked up to the irresistibility of Opus 131 as drama material for string quartets. A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener 2012-11-01T16:04:18Z In the subtle gradations from robust dense tone to smoky layers, their playing often resembled that of a first-rate string quartet. Review: The Joys of a Conductorless Chamber Performance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z A restless, continuous piece of nearly 25 minutes, “Absolute Jest” is a kind of concerto for string quartet and orchestra. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z After a wistful string quartet wafts through for the final time, an abrupt, funereal piano chord reminds us that Redford is still gone for good. The Roots Have Made A Concept Album. And It?s Good! 2011-12-06T11:58:41Z Philip Glass chose Brooklyn Rider to record his complete string quartets. Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider join for Seattle concert Feb. 4 2014-01-30T20:25:30Z Reich’s “Triple Quartet” is just that, a piece for three string quartets. Kronos Quartet’s creative generosity is apparent in performance of new commissions 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Miriam is a former Israeli soldier who has been playing violin in a string quartet along with her ex-husband since the mid-1970s. Review | A famous ship gets a stormy send-off in ‘The Last Cruise’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Throughout Impulse, a female string quartet actively joins in the business of movement. Leigh Warren – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-26T17:15:00Z I look forward to Thursday night, when the string quartet Ethel will join the company for another premiere. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance at Tribeca Arts Center - Review 2011-10-31T21:36:31Z The songs stay slow and stately, relying on acoustic guitars and keyboards; when more fullness is needed, a string quartet or a full string section arrives. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z His legacy is defined by intimidating bodies of symphonies, string quartets, piano sonatas and more, now canonic. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z Several hours before the wedding, Sandra Bullock was stapling fabric to an unfinished balcony, which later held a string quartet. Two Decades Filled With Laughter and Pastry 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z That Age of Reason ideal expanded throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, but with the string quartet still a reasonable vehicle for great composers’ inner musical thoughts and feelings. The quiet protest, amid bombs bursting, of Kronos Quartet 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Whenever I hear a talented young string quartet these days, I say a little prayer for them. Review | Fledgling Verona string quartet is fast off the mark at Kennedy Center 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Jonny Greenwood’s hovering music for string quartet and orchestra underlines the mood of seething emotional turmoil. | 'Norwegian Wood': ?Norwegian Wood,? From Haruki Murakami Novel - Review 2012-01-05T22:21:44Z Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are nearly universally regarded as a summit of 20th-century chamber music. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He was joined by a string quartet on "Long Hot Summer," then turned down the volume and sang "Making Memories of Us" microphone-free with the audience. Keith Urban makes return from vocal surgery 2012-02-04T03:57:07Z There would be–would there not?–a string quartet playing, as I puff languidly on a gold-tipped cigarette, looking pleasantly bored and mentally replaying the morning’s polo match. Christopher Buckley: The Wintering Of Our Discontent 2013-10-08T14:01:00Z This weekend, three excellent and very different local string quartets play in three very different kinds of venues. A weekend flock of L.A. string quartets 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In 80 minutes of growing tension, to a sensuous, lyrical score which relates closely to Glass's string quartet repertoire, the complexities unfold. In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The composer David First was on hand to introduce his “Elegies for the Afterland,” made up of 15 sections for string quartet and seven-tone electronic drone. Music Review | Flux Quartet: At Bargemusic, Microtones of Annie Gosfield and David First 2010-03-15T06:10:00Z I would dearly have loved to find a home for Bridge's late masterpiece for cello and orchestra, Oration, and the remarkable third and fourth string quartets. Backstage no longer: Frank Bridge at the Proms 2011-08-04T21:30:01Z For example, one program will pair the landmark Shostakovich Piano Quintet with U.S. composer Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” a compelling 1988 work that employs recorded speech and train sounds as well as a string quartet. It’s the ‘golden age’ of U.S. composing, Seattle chamber-music fest director proclaims 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Scored for a solo string quartet both with and against a background string ensemble, the piece received a vibrant, assured performance here. Review: Sphinx Virtuosi Bring an Intriguing Vision to Carnegie Hall 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z The album’s watchwords are the refrain of “Your Reality,” a track that meshes syncopated, ambiguous synthesizer chords and a sighing string quartet: “Surreal but free — it’s your reality.” Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z But this one remains strong: a series of Saturday evening concerts by a resident string quartet in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z There’s a nod to the past with performances by the Attacca Quartet of three string quartets, “Punctum,” “Entr’acte” and “Blueprint,” two of which are featured on a widely heralded recording on New Amsterdam/Nonesuch. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Earlier this month, he released a studio video of “Wanderlust,” a captivating new composition recorded with a different string quartet, plus the drummer Kenneth Salters. The Playlist: Lil Wayne Recaptures His Old Magic and 8 More New Songs 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The program opened with “Edges,” a 12-minute, single-movement work for string quartet by the young composer and conductor Luke Carlson, a student at Aspen last summer, when this work had its premiere. Music Review: Aspen Music Festival Takes Its Act on the Road 2014-04-17T23:18:43Z Mr. Husa created works in most of the standard concert-music forms apart from opera, including two symphonies, several concertos, four string quartets and three ballets. Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 95 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z And yet I couldn’t stop squirming during Sunday afternoon’s performance there of “Flight,” a multimedia concoction for string quartet, electronics and video conceived by the composer Roger Reynolds. Review: A Musical Homage to Aviation, From Plato to Earhart 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z THE string quartet is an invention of the classical age, brought to perfection by Mozart and Haydn. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Written for piano, electronics and string quartet, it uses tremulous repetitions and seeping expansions to evoke the process of genetic variation. Vijay Iyer continues his pursuit in transforming jazz The Miller Theater at Columbia University opened its season last fall with a work by Simon Steen-Andersen that imposed physical restraints — weights, rubber tubes, noise-canceling headphones — on a string quartet trying to play Schumann. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z I wanted to write a string quartet, but this orchestra is having its centenary and they really pleaded. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z Structurally, it's effectively a four-movement violin concerto, with a string quartet in place of an orchestra, while the piano mediates between the two. Lortie/Dumay/Quatuor Eb?ne 2010-05-31T21:45:00Z Danish Art-Rock, and Beethoven, Too Forthcoming musical performances at the Metropolitan Museum include compositions by Tan Dun and David Lang as well as 16 Beethoven string quartets. The New Season 2012-09-07T21:04:55Z My trusty Schumann string quartets felt as flat as the vinyl they were pressed into. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Number of orchestral instruments required to play the original version: a double string quartet, bass, flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano. 70 and still fresh: For ‘Appalachian Spring’ anniversary, a Martha Graham primer A small orchestra that included a string quartet and four horns, augmented by three backup singers, completed the picture. Review: John Pizzarelli Channels Paul McCartney and Antônio Carlos Jobim 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Her mother was a concert violist, and Ms. Peacock often heard string quartets rehearsing at home. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The enduring success of these six string quartets suggests that we do. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z The afternoon opened with the Washington premiere of Christopher Cerrone’s “High Windows,” for solo string quartet and string ensemble. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres “Secretly, I say that that string quartet is a blues and a spiritual — at least the first movement.” This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Both Mr. Arzberger and the string quartet have taken to social media in his defense. Bizarre Court Case Puts a Violinist, and Leipzig String Quartet, in an Unflattering Light 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The most memorable moments were for string quartet, with the ensemble showing its versatility and flair with lively improvisations. ‘Voices, Winds and Paths’ at the Chelsea Music Festival 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The Romantic movement emerged from the Classical heritage, in which composers expressed themselves through large, formal structures: symphony, sonata, string quartet, concerto. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z When The Seattle Symphony brought a string quartet to the Washington Corrections Center for Women, it performed for one of its most attentive audiences yet. ‘I hope they come back here again’: Seattle Symphony brings music to prison inmates 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The difference this time is that they’ll present an entire concert of four string quartets by themselves on Feb. 2, instead of appearing in one of SCMS’ characteristic mix-and-match lineups of different musicians. Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2014 Winter Fest lineup 2013-09-03T03:29:48Z This eye-opening album is an invitation to consider the familiar — whether it’s the centuries-old form of the string quartet or, in the case of “Valencia,” the everyday orange. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z And then I knew that I wanted the string quartet to be the acoustic instruments that you don’t need to plug in to hear. The man behind the “Hamilton” sound: Hidden Beatles references, the “hip-hop horse” sample and why if “it’s all computerized, there’s no heart to it” 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Also on the program: a new string quartet by a beguiling young American composer, Jonathan Leshnoff. Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z Yaron Zilberman, the director of this film about a New York string quartet, has clearly made great efforts to get things right: each actor apparently spent hours working with music coaches. A violinist's view on A Late Quartet 2013-04-16T05:00:01Z Only when you hear a terrific string quartet performing works by Haydn, Shostakovich or Bartok in a hall that seats just a few hundred do you really understand what makes “chamber music” so overwhelming. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In one moment, he conducts members of a string quartet as they play long tones. Spitfire Fiddling: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Cole, who died in January at 101, was a longtime faculty member at Curtis who performed many of Barber’s works, including the string quartet in its full three-movement version. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z A boisterous Hungarian march suddenly bursts in at the end of the otherwise elevated Second Piano Concerto, like a drunken karaoke singer into a string quartet. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z They were already renowned as one of the major string quartets by the time they recorded Op. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z “Yesterday” It was Martin’s idea to add a string quartet to the song. Hear Beatles Producer George Martin's Life in Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z “It was as if the bow was telling me how to play the music,” said Mr. Gandelsman, who plays with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider as well as with the Silk Road Ensemble. More Musicians Are Trying Period Instruments 2013-08-30T19:44:02Z So it was for the Schumann family, who ended up with almost enough sons to form a string quartet. Review | Schumann Quartet keeps it almost all in the family in Washington debut 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Most string quartets undergo several personnel changes during a lengthy tenure, sometimes leading to a change of temperament or aesthetic. Review: Auryn Quartet Forges a Radiance at the Frick 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z It seemed only natural for the players to ask Olesen to write a string quartet for them. Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “The rhythms had a different sort of feel than say, a Mozart string quartet,” she said. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z With champagne, two wines, five courses and a string quartet, the Rousseau-style "citizens' banquet" in the Chateau of Ermenonville was more royal than republican. ArtsBeat: Rousseaumania Runs Rampant in France 2012-06-29T17:59:36Z Mozart's G-major Quartet was his first important string quartet, and his youth is evident. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Composers writing music for orchestras and string quartets worked in recording studios with pop and electronica artists at night. Why Iceland? L.A. Phil's Reykjavik Festival highlights amazing music coming from an unlikely place 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Delicately entrancing songs for string quartet, flute, and electronics — led by Joachim’s powerful and unpretentious voice — alternate with recorded spoken interludes as well as the singing of a girls choir from Joachim’s family’s village. The Week in Arts: Alicia Keys, Mark Morris and an Expanded MoMA 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z With a running time of 2 hours and 14 minutes, Barney’s latest film, “Redoubt,” is like a string quartet compared with his full-scale symphonic work. Review | Who wants to join the cult of video artist Matthew Barney? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z With Martin’s deftly orchestrated string quartet, “Yesterday” changed the band’s consumer calculus in the blink of an eye. Ariana Grande and the Beatles have even more in common than sales records 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z He was accompanied, for much of the concert, by a string quartet that expanded his filigreed guitar parts with hints of fiddle tunes, swelling chords and flickers of pizzicato. Music Review: Declan O’Rourke at the Irish Arts Center 2013-04-25T21:24:15Z The work featured two choirs, flying solo instrumentalists, live electronic and acoustic music, and a string quartet streamed live from four airborne helicopters. Sarah Connolly wins UK classical music's top live singing award 2013-05-14T21:06:15Z Mr. Dargel was tasked with writing for string quartet, surrounding his new creation with sympathetic pieces by other composers and linking it all to one of the museum’s exhibitions. Music Review: Fragments of Egyptian Statuary Set Stage for Songs of Fragmentation 2011-01-24T22:37:30Z Adams' "Canticles of the Sky" appears to be a new string quartet arrangement of an earlier piece for 45 cellos. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Having poured his stylistically wide-ranging thoughts into his string quartets, he happily allowed the electronica group Matmos to remix them, adding beats and other sounds, and cutting and pasting musical lines. As New Composers Flourish, Where Will They Be Heard? 2011-12-09T17:01:37Z In 1996, Mr. Chou completed “Clouds,” a landmark work for string quartet that possesses a profoundly autumnal beauty. Edgard Varèse’s Protégé Chou Wen-chung, Going Strong at 91 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Ted Hearne’s “The Answer to the Question That Wings Ask” is a collaborative piece with Saul Williams, interweaving the poet’s strong spoken words with music by the Mivos string quartet. Review | KC Jukebox concert puts spotlight on African American voices 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Rob originally wanted a 50-piece string orchestra, but I convinced him a string quartet was not only cheaper but more pretentious as well! "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But “What Might Have Been,” three new songs for voice and string quartet, was inconclusive. Music Review: Fragments of Egyptian Statuary Set Stage for Songs of Fragmentation 2011-01-24T22:37:30Z Later in the week, the superb Jerusalem String Quartet delves into Bartok’s string quartets, offering the first, third and fifth in the intimate Rose Studio. Classical Music Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z In 2002, The New York Times said his string quartets were among "the most difficult music ever conceived," and it hailed their "volatile emotions, delicacy and even, in places, plucky humor." Composer, Pulitzer winner Carter dies in NY at 103 2012-11-06T02:07:08Z On the program are string quartets by Philip Glass and Meredith Monk as well as the premiere of a cello solo by Caleb Burhans, played by Clarice Jensen, the ensemble’s artistic director. In the Garden, With Strings, at the Noguchi Museum 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, the accompanying string quartet bring out the worst in Teitur – their sound is too straightforwardly romantic for a songwriter who needs some roughing up. Teitur – review 2013-01-14T18:47:51Z Like Beethoven in the late string quartets or piano sonatas, Shakespeare in “The Winter’s Tale” — play No. 36 out of 39, give or take — no longer observes the lane lines. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Rouse was accompanied by a string quartet, two female singers and the sounds of shortwave radio static; he played a National steel resonator guitar or an acoustic guitar, singing in a rusty voice. Music Review: Folky Strokes, With Dabs of News, Video and Static 2010-12-08T23:03:00Z They spend busy days practicing, studying with esteemed faculty and performing in operas, string quartets and master classes. How Beethoven for all and A-list alliances keep the Music Academy of the West thriving after 70 years 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Florence is a classical violinist, one of the founders of an ambitious string quartet. Review: In ‘On Chesil Beach,’ a Honeymoon Gone Wrong 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Béla Bartók’s six string quartets are a cross-section of his musical development. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Vanska led a remarkable, sharply defined rendition, the gritty dissonances and eccentricities of the original string quartet version magnified tenfold. Music Review | Minnesota Orchestra: Symphonic Drama: Rage-Filled Reunion for Slave and His Sister 2010-03-02T21:56:00Z One-fourth of the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider will soon change: Eric Jacobsen, its cellist, plans to leave to concentrate on conducting, the group said on Thursday. Brooklyn Rider Gets a New Cellist 1460-09-30T05:00:00Z In a notable exception, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented the Miró Quartet in exciting accounts of Ginastera’s three string quartets on a single program last month. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The first half of the program also included “Three Poems in French” for soprano and string quartet by Mr. Kim, a Californian of Korean heritage who died in 1998. Review: Musicians From Marlboro, With Works by Mozart and Fauré 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z I was deeply affected to hear the Alexander String Quartet play all 15 Shostakovich string quartets in 2006 in the intimate concert hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in Manhattan. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Narrated by Julia Ansdell, a second violinist in a Boston string quartet, "Playing With Fire" begins on a sweltering afternoon in contemporary Rome. Tess Gerritsen's 'Playing With Fire' is a well-plotted thriller 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Where Classical, Rock, Pop and Folk Meet Ethel is a string quartet that has always wanted to be a rock band. Music Review: Ethel Plays Classical, Rock, Pop and Folk 2010-07-29T21:53:00Z To use a musical analogy, it’s a tightly structured string quartet rather than a loose and expansive symphony. ‘Agostino,’ by Alberto Moravia The string quartet devoted to her music is the Kreutzer, a British ensemble. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Brooklyn Rider, the string quartet from Brooklyn everybody talks about, played a concert at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Saturday night under the auspices of Washington Performing Arts. Brooklyn Rider string quartet provides two hours of unalloyed listening joy 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Drawing from his confident new album, “Rhizome,” he leads a trio with the bassist Thomas Morgan and the drummer Henry Cole, augmented by a string quartet. Jazz Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z By the time he joined the collective in 1967, Smith was already a practiced string quartet composer. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z These and particularly Zorn's string quartet music capture the fullest and most remarkable aspect of his protean nature. A protean John Zorn musical marathon at LACMA and UCLA 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z But the choreographer D D Dorvillier is flipping that notion upside down in a work that transposes a late Beethoven string quartet into a dance for four. Dance: D D Dorvillier’s Beethoven Piece at the Kitchen 2012-09-23T04:57:45Z Busy working on a commission by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for May, Cerrone missed his deadline and quickly adapted a short recent piano piece for string quartet in its place. The Calder Quartet rolls along with Beethoven 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z When they were ready to briefly retreat from synthesizers, they would release a string quartet- and marching band-indebted album titled “Indiscreet,” which flopped fantastically. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Nearly every major composer in Western classical music history has written at least one string quartet, and in the Bay Area, string quartets, anchored by the internationally acclaimed Kronos Quartet, are thriving. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z After recent discs of Ian Wilson's string quartets and works for string orchestra, this strikingly well‑performed collection shows the northern Irishman working with a much more vivid instrumental palette. Wilson: Man-o'-War; Winter Finding; Licht/ung; etc 2010-08-26T21:18:00Z Saturday night, it is the turn of the Lyris Quartet, which opens the Santa Monica new music series Jacaranda at First Presbyterian Church with two 20th century classics, the string quartets of Leos Janácek. A weekend flock of L.A. string quartets 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Strange but true tidbit: Some concertgoers just are not that crazy about string quartets. Ariel Quartet turns in a flavorful musical ‘appetizer’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The lineup included guitar, violin, viola and cello, so they were, in effect, an electric guitar-led string quartet, and played with an idiosyncratic, folksy, contemporary-classical solemnity. Bill Frisell: Sign of Life: Music for the 858 Quartet ? review 2011-08-25T20:46:01Z The only common denominator of its program, 12 new works created between 2012 and 2014, was that everything was written for string quartet. Brooklyn Rider string quartet provides two hours of unalloyed listening joy 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Instead, it ended with a virtuoso soloist and a well-known string quartet playing Mozart and Brahms. Joyful clarinet meets laid-back quartet: Anthony McGill and Pacifica combine in the Fortas chamber series. In this context, the group made Beethoven's great C-Sharp Minor string quartet into "the unflappable." Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z And there were plenty of surprises to be discovered in the music: the dazzling variety of effects Haydn drew from the string quartet when that medium was still in its infancy. Music Review: The Tokyo String Quartet Says Farewell at Norfolk Festival 2013-07-07T21:22:02Z Keeping with that tradition, the musicians will do away with their scores for all three of Brahms’s string quartets. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Today the Arditti Quartet plays two of his string quartets, works for solo cello and violin, and the song cycle Got Lost. This week's new live music 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z The only people onstage are Ms. Whelan, Mr. Brooks and, supplying the lush musical landscape, the members of the string quartet Brooklyn Rider. Review: Chasing Wildness, and Sometimes Catching It 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet today more string quartets are taking up the challenge, part of a generation for whom independence from the printed page is only part of a wider search for depth and freedom of musical expression. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z The lineup in the Shrine of the Ages, near the south rim of the canyon, includes the adventurous string quartet Ethel and the American Indian flutist Robert Mirabal. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z For the most part, the program was without theme, other than revealing the range of what is now possible with the contemporary string quartet. The quiet protest, amid bombs bursting, of Kronos Quartet 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z For this special concert, he presents new music for piano and string quartet. Jazz Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z To lighten the mood, a string quartet played the “Golden Girls” theme song, “Thank You for Being a Friend,” as guests found their seats. On Love: Aaron Schmidt & Justin Zielke 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The “Real Beauty” campaign is almost a parody of itself at this point — the emo string quartet, the wise, vaguely sinister “expert,” the soft lighting that’s straight out of a Real Simple photo shoot. Stop posting that Dove ad: “Real beauty” campaign is not feminist 2013-04-18T15:10:00Z He had been the principal violist in the university’s symphony orchestra, and the Ohio State radio station hired him to play in a string quartet. Peter Allen, a Voice on the Radio for the Met Opera, Dies at 96 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z But it is a work for string quartet, though one that recruits a baritone soloist, Roderick Williams, too. Williams/Doric Quartet 2010-05-03T20:45:00Z Even so, life as a professional string quartet has been a hand-to-mouth existence. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z At least in Ms. Shields’s piece, named after Christopher Theofanidis’s string quartet, we can see the dancers’ faces. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z The chamber music repertoire actually reminds me more of acting than acting does sometimes — the togetherness between a string quartet and the way you have to really listen to each other. Samuel West Takes Comfort in D&D, Mendelssohn and Ron Swanson’s Whiskey 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Lash, in “How to Remember Seeds” for string quartet, attempts to fracture, tweak and develop little motifs and figures. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith used trained singers, whom he molded into an ensemble as tightly knit as a string quartet, renowned for its rich vocal blend, flawless intonation and clarity. Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z But Threadgill, 79, has done plenty of soaring, on stages, over the years: composing music intended for social dancing, and pieces for orchestra and string quartet in which players are encouraged to improvise. Henry Threadgill’s Musical Spring Is Varied and Extreme. Like He Is. 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z In the quieter classical realm this week Barber’s anniversary will be marked by two New York performances of the Adagio in its original form as the slow movement of his string quartet, Opus 11. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z After playing “The Boxer,” a favorite from her youth, she invited the symphony’s string quartet on stage. Review: Nancy Wilson plays her first live show in two years with Seattle Symphony 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z This rising string quartet has embarked on a complete survey of all of them, with lectures and demonstrations by the players preceding each performance. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z His style in this repertory is jocular to the point of insouciance — unsurprising, considering his past works include easy-listening interpretations of Beethoven and Brahms, and a string quartet called “Mister Softee Variations.” For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z There are moments when the music's angularity recalls Elliott Carter, while the nagging opening of the string quartet could have come from Morton Feldman, even though what follows it is very different. Wuorinen: String Quartet No 1; Piano Quintet No 2 etc - review 2011-03-31T21:45:01Z Screaming the F-word at a string quartet from a palace window weird, or holding a catered birthday party for your 17 bunny-babies weird. Is the Favourite historically accurate? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The two violinists, violist, and cellist that make up a string quartet are its limbs, and losing a limb is inevitably a traumatic business. Emerson, 'Four Quarters' a beguiling start to UW season 2012-10-03T16:55:04Z Ultimately, passion and comradeship are what drive these musicians — and their audiences — to get behind the string quartet as an art form. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z Akiho has written substantial works for steel pan, for percussion, for marimba and string quartet, for snare drum and sampled dog barking, and many other configurations — even a concerto for onstage Ping-Pong players and orchestra. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He composed a song for his fiancé that will be played at their wedding by the string quartet from “Gentleman’s Guide” and sung by a Matthew Scott, a Broadway singer. A Love That Survived Broadway 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z All six of Bartók's string quartets will be performed, a first in Ojai history. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z During the ceremony – which was on an outdoor terrace at the hotel – strong storms caused the tent covering the ceremony to collapse on the guests and vendors, including the string quartet. Wedding musicians sue hotel, vendors after tent collapse: ‘I thought I was going to die’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z But she also writes down her music in conventional pencil-to-paper form and has produced a string quartet for the Del Sol Quartet in the Bay Area. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z The string quartet Brooklyn Rider shares the stage with Mr. Heginbotham’s quirky, satisfyingly musical choreography. Dance Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Settings of Yeats and Joyce proved a handsome showcase for Mr. Gunn’s velvet sound and clear diction; Ms. Gunn’s arrangements balanced piano and string quartet deftly. Music Review: Nathan and Julie Gunn With Pacifica Quartet at Zankel Hall 2013-04-24T21:51:23Z “Sanaa did my store on Crosby Street,” said the fashion designer Derek Lam, sipping red wine as a string quartet played. Japanese Architects Receive Pritzker Prize on Ellis Island 2010-05-19T21:48:00Z In recalling the more delicate textures heard at the concert’s opening, this piece for string quartet also brought a sense of closure to the first hour. Review: Roam the Spectrum With Tyshawn Sorey 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z For the most part, the piano went one way, and the string quartet, another. Review: Chiara Quartet Says Farewell on a High Note 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z It could be just a string quartet, or it could be a full-blown ensemble with film projections. Michel van der Aa: 'I'm an art omnivore' 2010-04-29T22:20:00Z After spending part of the pandemic studying up on string quartet writing, this guitarist and composer collaborated with the Mivos Quartet on two enjoyable albums released this year. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Fialkowska's refined delicacy suits this arrangement admirably, forcing us to revisit the music afresh and listen again to the clean lines of accompaniment delineated so strikingly by string quartet and double bass. Mozart: Piano Concertos 13 & 14 – review 2013-03-03T00:05:11Z Barber’s Adagio for Strings, popular as an orchestral work, started life as a string quartet movement, and Barber eventually arranged it for flute and as a choral Agnus Dei. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z The Australian-based Goldners play in Britain rarely, but together with their discs, those infrequent appearances confirm them as one of the finest string quartets around today. Apekisheva/Goldner Quartet – review 2013-05-02T17:14:25Z To be able to work with Juanes’s music, maintaining its essence while adding new things, allows me to write for horns or a string quartet or a big choir, which is one of my passions. The Colombian Rock Star Juanes on MTV 2012-05-27T00:43:09Z Rather than bluegrass tunes or even bluegrass style informing the string quartet, it's more about using the same language that informs bluegrass music itself and a modern form of bluegrass I helped usher in — "newgrass." Seattle-born Mark O'Connor is at home with bluegrass and Bach ? and Meany audiences will see and hear him on Saturday 2011-01-28T21:15:09Z In “Absolute Jest,” the composer’s previous collaboration with the group, Adams borrowed fragments from Beethoven’s string quartets. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z But it was in the first string quartet of 1951 that Carter's new conception of independent musical layers, sometimes co-operating, sometimes clashing in purposeful disunity, came fully into focus. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z In the background a string quartet does a cover of Santana's "Evil Ways." "True Blood" recap: What happens to wounded children 2010-06-21T13:10:00Z And for this concert, her music was shrewdly delicate: not quite unplugged, but relying on acoustic guitars, a string quartet and drumming that was more likely to use brushes than sticks. Music Review: A Soft Pop Chanteuse, Striking Delicate Poses 2011-02-17T23:01:48Z But theirs was a daring venture at a time when most listeners preferred string quartets, with their even sonorities and vast repertory, for intimate chamber concerts. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Is ours the new golden age of string quartets? Rising Quartets, Hip and Passionate 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Smith, at center stage, played bright and gestural trumpet solos from time to time in long, cracking tones and conducted the Pacifica Red Coral ensemble, a string quartet with a harpist at stage left. Music Review: ‘Ten Freedom Summers,’ by Wadada Leo Smith 2013-05-03T05:55:12Z Beethoven’s tricky “Grosse Fuge” for string quartet was initially dismissed by some as too convoluted, then later embraced as a masterpiece. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Tuesday will be the group's first live performance of the songs from the album with the string quartet. Earshot Jazz Festival scores with James Carter and Gretchen Parlato 2010-10-25T23:48:00Z The packed room reflected the stage setup, where Shepherd surrounded himself with analog synthesizers of every vintage as well as an 11-piece band that included a drummer, a string quartet and full brass section. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But think of the string quartets, the piano sonatas, the violin sonatas, the cello sonatas, the piano concertos. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z There was a nice tension between cohesion — everyone was composing for string quartet and harp, conducted by Mila Henry — and variety, with some numbers spare, some lush, some poppily alert, some sincerely mild. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z On Friday night, Locrian chose six composers — deplorably, none of them women — in seven strongly performed pieces, including two string quartets, a piano quartet, a piano trio, a string trio and a cello-and-piano duo. Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z But the darkening shivers of his arrangement for string quartet, played by Brooklyn Rider, set up an emotional pivot: He’s still numb from a wrenching loss, and his daily routine provides only meager distraction. Review: In Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Fiction Issue,’ Timelessness and Sept. 11 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Brace admits to being a little nervous about the large ensemble, which includes horns and a string quartet. From a single tune to a folk opera, ‘Hangtown Dancehall’ comes to Birchmere Scored for flute, clarinet, two vibraphones, two pianos, string quartet and electric bass, this is no mere set of variations. Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review 2013-03-10T00:06:07Z Does the Calder Quartet, which played a superb concert at Santa Monica's Broad Stage on Thursday night, still qualify as a young American string quartet? Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z And as vivid as the spicing can be in this country, it’s a “string quartet” compared to the “symphonic” notes he experienced overseas, where the fresh spices don’t travel far. The search for America’s best food cities: Washington, D.C. 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z So far, so expected, except that Schubert wasn't mourning Joseph Haydn, revered "father" of the symphony and string quartet. Radio review: Composer of the Week 2010-06-22T07:00:00Z This is a string quartet that is like a rock band. Neil Gaiman Follows the Guiding Light of Instinct 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Except for one nearly five-minute piece written for and played by string quartet, “The Battle of Chamdo” — this is that kind of band — the album has stability, consistency. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z It's a stunning work, built on a technique Reich developed in "Different Trains," where he first set prerecorded voices against a live string quartet. Composer Steve Reich remembers with 'WTC 9/11' 2011-09-07T20:43:04Z Our knees touched in our cozy seats two rows from the string quartet. A Single Mom Escapes the Friend Zone, One Non-Date at a Time 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “He’d been wanting to write for a string quartet plus banjo for years. We got excited and said, yeah, let’s do this. He’s incredible, a hero.” Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider join for Seattle concert Feb. 4 2014-01-30T20:25:30Z Doing something similar, Mr. Adams chose fragments of scherzo movements from Beethoven’s late string quartets and other bits of Beethoven. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Across four movements, the interaction between clarinet and strings changes, with moments of bright commonality and others in which the warm, musky clarinet tone contrasts with the sharper and glossier one of the string quartet. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z And on Sunday afternoon the impressive Cassatt Quartet plays string quartets by Dvorak and Beethoven. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Something seems inevitable about the recent partnership of innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider and pioneering banjo master Béla Fleck. Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider join for Seattle concert Feb. 4 2014-01-30T20:25:30Z Q: Was it difficult tracking down his nine string quartets? Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z “Connection,” a bracing string quartet by Sampo Haapamaki, conjured similar extremes through control and precision, its visceral waves, swells and slashes produced with exactly calibrated rhythmic relationships and microtonal pitch sets. Music Review: MATA Festival Returns, With Spotlight on Helsinki 2014-04-17T23:21:53Z The curtain rose on four unidentified string quartet players, each in a disco cage patterned after the Chandler chandeliers. Music Center's 50th-anniversary gala amps up energy to a fault 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Mexico a la Carte A string quartet performs modern Mexican music and more in this Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra fundraiser. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 22-29: Berlioz, Philip Glass and more 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z On Friday, the Momenta Quartet offers four of his 10 string quartets, including the haunting “Night Descending Like Smoke.” Norgard in New York Celebrates Per Norgard 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Kahane’s smoky, earnest baritone suited both the words and their setting, and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider was strikingly alert to matters of nuance and mood. Music Review: Gabriel Kahane at Zankel Hall 2012-10-28T21:31:37Z Repetitiveness is the hallmark of Philip Glass's music, and his five string quartets, played here by the Smith Quartet, are no exception. Smith Quartet 2010-04-25T21:15:00Z The program includes the New York premiere of a work for pipa and string quartet by Zhao Lin based on his father’s music for the acclaimed film “Raise the Red Lantern.” Lincoln Center Has an Eclectic Week of Music in Store 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Both string ensembles had the polish and connectivity of major string quartets. L.A. Phil chamber players start Next on Grand in here and now 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But when the composer Hannah Lash contemplated subjects for a planned chamber opera involving two singers and string quartet, she picked “Beauty and the Beast” specifically for its qualities of intimacy, vulnerability and conflict. Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z “I’m obsessed with harmony,” she said beforehand, and it showed in this piece for bass flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, piano and percussion. Review: The Philharmonic Focuses on Female Composers 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “The Four Quarters,” a new string quartet by the British composer Thomas Adès heard in its premiere, emerged from a penumbral twilight left in Debussy’s wake to describe a day’s progress. Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z I mean, there is more variety and diversity in a single string quartet of Haydn than you can find in about a hundred works of other composers. Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The format of string quartet with an extra viola was unusual when Mozart composed this work, a masterpiece of restless character and symphonic breadth. Music Review: Brentano String Quartet Plays Hadyn, Mozart and Bartok 2012-12-17T22:55:08Z She then sang Brahms’s “Ophelia-Lieder,” a set of five songs also adapted from Shakespeare, composed in 1873, performed in an arrangement for soprano and string quartet. Music Review: Renée Fleming Brings Vienna in Ferment to Carnegie Hall 2013-05-05T21:09:14Z Mr. Gilbertson, 30 as well, wrote a string quartet that veers from glassy to robust, and Mr. Hearne, 35, wrote “Sound From the Bench,” a cantata for chamber choir, electric guitars and drums. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “I also see lots of flowers and a string quartet with a band for dancing after,” Ms. Robinson added. Special Issue: Gay Marriage: Ready to Wed? No, Mom. 2011-07-22T19:37:03Z We didn’t get together with any grand aspirations, like conquering the world of string quartets. Ehnes Quartet to make formal debut at SCMS Winter Festival 2014-01-15T23:58:11Z Among the striking things about the vast body of work gathered here is how it interrelates rather like symphonies and string quartets are often intertwined in a composer’s oeuvre. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The next release, “an acrobat's heart,” twelve years later, was with a string quartet. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z I may no longer have the chops to play in a string quartet, but I retain my love of the man’s celestial music. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z “WTC 9/11,” a string quartet created in 2010 by the composer Steve Reich, falls into the same rough category but varies sharply in its approach and tone. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z On successive evenings you might find electroacoustic experiments, meditative string quartets and barreling pieces for chamber orchestra. A Reliably Varied Music Festival Returns to New York 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z But what it refers directly to is the music they’re considering playing, one of Beethoven’s string quartets, Opus 131, written late in the composer’s life. A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener 2012-11-01T16:04:18Z The orchestration of “The Miners’ Hymns” — for 16 brasses, along with a string quartet and two sparingly used percussionists — is a nod to history. Music Review: Johann Johannsson?s Music With Images at Winter Garden 2012-02-02T23:09:34Z Schubert’s sorrow-laden string quartet “Death and the Maiden” would be an unlikely candidate for any holiday playlist. Review | The Miró Quartet takes up legendary instruments to honor the ghosts of chamber music past 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z On the album, Ms. Shyu is joined by a string quartet and her jazz septet, Jade Tongue. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Here, in collaboration with musicians from different ethnic traditions and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, he further expands the emotional and cultural range of this hauntingly human-sounding bamboo flute. Classical Playlist: Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meredith Monk, Kojiro Umezaki and More 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z But we are rearranging some songs in the catalog that were never string quartet- or string-based. Tori Amos lightens up 2011-09-20T16:21:00Z He remembers his parents playing Haydn with their amateur string quartet, and being taken to see “Der Freischütz” at the opera, which stoked a lifelong admiration for Carl Maria von Weber. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z I often find myself complaining that today’s string quartets do not pay enough attention to beauty of tone and are lazy about shaping phrases. Leipzig Quartet plays masterfully but without subtlety 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Not "important" in an obvious way, but Britten's best pieces are surely Our Hunting Fathers, the Serenade, the second string quartet, the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge and Curlew River. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z Will the accompaniment be a sitar or a string quartet?—could be decided later, in the studio. The Teen-Age Hitmaker from Westchester County 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Calix has combined them with a string quartet, while for Meredith they have become the raw material for an electronic piece. This week's new live music 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z From its ominous opening strains to its ramshackle final bars, “Absolute Jest,” scored for the unlikely combination of string quartet and orchestra, is a funhouse stocked with flashes of Beethoven. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In addition to his much-loved violin bonbons, Kreisler also composed operettas, songs and a string quartet. Review: Benjamin Beilman Goes Beyond His Violin Bonbons 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The group even turned down a recording contract from what was then the world’s most prestigious classical label, Deutsche Grammophon, because its members insisted on recording Berg’s two string quartets for their debut. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z “Even the highest-paid string quartets don’t make as much money as solo recitalists,” Ms. Felt said. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z Mendelssohn, a prolific teenage prodigy, composed at least 80 works from age 11 to 16, including operas, string quartets and string symphonies, most performed during Sunday soirees at the family mansion in Berlin. Music Review: Chamber Music Society in Its Season Finale 2010-05-24T23:32:00Z The four members of a Parisian string quartet, stranded a few miles from their next gig in San Diego, find themselves kidnapped by the social director of “Standard Island.” Michael Dirda takes a new look at a little-known Jules Verne novel 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It would be hard to imagine a prominent string quartet, for instance, soldiering on for more than a few outings with a pinch-hitter. Music Review: For a Sextet?s Substitutes, a Chemistry Test 2011-05-10T21:30:25Z But the string quartet and backup vocals added convolutions: harmonies leaning toward polytonality, staggered vocals that gently concealed the beat. Music Review: Folky Strokes, With Dabs of News, Video and Static 2010-12-08T23:03:00Z Heavy metal never sounded like this – but then neither has the string quartet. A guide to John Zorn's music 2012-05-21T14:30:03Z Mr. Peck’s “Chutes and Ladders” is an extended pas de deux, 10 minutes long, during which the string quartet is played on a platform onstage. Dance Review: At Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella’s Tenets Live On 2014-01-13T22:49:55Z Graham Vick will direct the more than 150 performers including two choirs, live electronic and acoustic music and a string quartet streamed from four helicopters flying overhead. Stockhausen opera premiere set in UK 2012-03-13T19:46:03Z The result of this steady output is evident in more than 30,000 manuscript pages of music: 27 operas, 11 symphonies, 8 string quartets, 20 piano études and 50-odd films, among many other works. Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z For Smith, a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, a more typical White House gig involves a string quartet serenade. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z For this exultant and meticulously patterned work, Halvorson invited the string quartet into her standing sextet of improvising players, creating her richest ensemble sound yet. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z That's on top of several major concert series, including all Schumann's songs from the year 1840, a survey of a century of German Lieder, and a cycle of Beethoven string quartets from the Artemis Quartet. This week's new live music 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z The symbolic meaning of the string quartet, the most perfect ensemble, is that of harmony raised high. The quiet protest, amid bombs bursting, of Kronos Quartet 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The organist Christopher Houlihan and a string quartet will also perform in the program, which includes carols from the 15th to 21st centuries. The Season of Joyful Noises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Rather than, say, a neurotic hitman, he plays a gentle cellist whose diagnosis with Parkinson's disease causes schisms in a New York string quartet. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z The Kronos was founded in the early 1970s specifically to play George Crumb’s “Black Angels,” a string quartet in protest of the Vietnam War. The quiet protest, amid bombs bursting, of Kronos Quartet 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z At the Bethesda Fountain a string quartet plays a hopeful march. Bluebrain?s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) 2011-12-07T23:35:57Z That decision — akin to presenting a string quartet in a punk rock venue — was a clever provocation, given German’s fraught cultural history. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z Even before the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider had given itself a name six years ago, its young members — graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School — began considering projects. Brooklyn Rider: String quartet goes all over the map 2012-01-27T19:00:07Z “You’d be surprised at how different writing for that instrumentation is from writing for a string quartet,” says Friedman. Adventurous JACK Quartet returns to Seattle June 11 2013-06-10T17:48:30Z There’s not much to look at when a string quartet is playing. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z At its centre were two song-cycles for baritone and string quartet. Maltman/Nash Ensemble – review 2013-02-25T16:00:00Z An eight-time Grammy nominee widely known for her single "A Sorta Fairytale," Amos performs two sets at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, one with full band and one with a string quartet. Tori Amos communes with classical, other pasts 2011-12-08T21:43:05Z It features a chamberlike group almost identical to the one assembled here, with Camila Meza on guitar and vocals, Ben Street on bass, Henry Cole on drums, and a dynamic string quartet. Jazz Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:40:06Z Without the dressing of a string quartet that lent the original recording a classical gloss, the song was a bleak portrait of stoic common people. Review: Barb Jungr Applies Her Emphatic Voice to the Beatles’ Music 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Who needs electronics when a string quartet can produce such wonderful noises? Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z Paths of Song is a continuous piece for string quartet in five sections, each taken at a walking pace. John Metcalf: Paths of Songs 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z Mr. Goode recalled one episode in which the composer Alexander Goehr “had his fourth string quartet rehearsed to an inch of its life.” Critic?s Notebook: Where Musicians Bask in the Luxury of Time 2011-08-08T22:15:13Z As well as a string quartet playing in four helicopters, the work featured two choirs and flying solo instrumentalists. Staging of Stockhausen's helicopter string quartet scores key prize 2013-05-14T21:00:01Z My string quartets are glorious, my operas are terrific. Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Audiences have relished the chance to hear a string quartet or a singer, a Baroque vocal group or a contemporary music ensemble, in this intimate, relaxed setting. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z Debussy wrote just one string quartet in his career, and while it is not the work he is best known for, everyone should hear a great performance of his Quartet for Strings in G Minor. Debussy's sole string piece makes for singular moment at festival 2011-07-14T19:40:07Z He did book a New Orleans brass band, to play, socially distanced, for a birthday on the celebrant’s stoop, and a string quartet played outside for a marriage proposal. Party Planners on Pause, Awaiting Revelry’s Return 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But I try to get them not to write anything in and play like a string quartet: to listen to each other and, if someone takes a rhythm a certain way, to imitate it. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z The enigmatic vibe continued in a 10:30 set, in which the adventurous string quartet Brooklyn Rider offered a hypnotically beautiful interpretation of the Suite from Philip Glass’s soundtrack for the film “Bent.” Music Review: Nocturnal Voyages Through Many Eras and Textures 2011-06-14T22:22:12Z Beethoven’s 16 string quartets are often played in a single season; the vibrant Attacca Quartet is taking six to play Haydn’s 68. Review: Attacca Quartet Continues Its Haydn Project 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Some tracks have only a string quartet, playing slowly dragged harmonies that sometimes pinch into fine-grain dissonance. Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Cycles of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, symphonies and string quartets are commonplace; the violin sonatas are much less frequently offered in entirety. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z The composer Annie Gosfield took inspiration from these eclectic sounds for “Signal Jamming and Random Interference,” for string quartet and electronics, which received its premiere at Roulette in Brooklyn on Sunday evening. Annie Gosfield’s ‘Signal Jamming and Random Interference’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z And while some other composers limit their microtonal adventures to slow-moving works with relatively few, and gradual, harmonic changes, Mr. Johnston’s string quartets include fast passages made up of dazzling, hyperkinetic streams of notes. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Members of the New Juilliard Ensemble perform new works for string quartet on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art. Classical Music This Week: Sounds of Cleveland’s Past and P.D.Q. Bach 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “All the musicians in the orchestra,” he said in 2007, offering his highest praise to a group that included several noted soloists and sometimes entire string quartets, “they are listening to each other.” To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The string quartet form was still young when Beethoven wrote his six Op 18. Beethoven: Quartets Op 18, Vol 1 – review 2013-06-01T23:05:20Z Only five years ago, the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, a local chamber music service organization, counted 10 professional string quartets in the region. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z His large body of fully composed works for the Kronos Quartet is among the greatest, least predictable and most original collections of American string quartets. Minimalist music groundbreaker Terry Riley plays among buffalo, peacocks and a wet platypus at MOCA's Geffen 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But with an album of string quartet music as strong as this one, she is worthy of as much renown in the classical field as she holds in the jazz community. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z She will present a new project, the seven-piece Nectar Orchestra, complete with a string quartet. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z On the album “Dreamers,” released this week, the Mexican singer Magos Herrera and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider collect songs from former Spanish and Portuguese colonies and compose songs based on poetry from those countries. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z A track like “The Pearls” starts off as a plausible imitation of decorum, with a string quartet shown onscreen in the entryway to a dining room. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z This propulsive, energetic work for string quartet, flute and clarinet/bass clarinet pits the instruments against each other, as well as in occasional harmony. Seattle Chamber Music Society debuts an ear-boggling piece by a ‘Dark Knight’ composer 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Writers often resort to similes and metaphors to describe a wine, likening it to a string quartet or a brass band or a ballet. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Lee based “The Music There” on music by Stevie Nicks, while Jones fashioned Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” and “A Natural Woman” into the equivalent of a 21st-century Liszt operatic fantasy for string quartet. Perspective | A quartet named Ethel brings fresh ideas to town 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z “My epitaph,” Mann joked to me, “will be that I was the first person to put a string quartet in an orgone box.” Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Head to the shape-shifting National Sawdust on June 3, when the string quartet Brooklyn Rider will celebrate New York City’s downtown music scene with a lively program — and drinks afterward. A Guide to the NY Phil Biennial From Our Critics and Reporters 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The Summergarden series at the Museum of Modern Art, which presents contemporary music in the museum’s spacious sculpture garden, continues on Sunday with new music for string quartet. | Classical Music: So Rhapsodic That the Birds Join In 2013-07-18T21:26:34Z Haydn needs no introduction as a composer of string quartets. The Manhattan String Quartet, Presented by the Bohemians 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z And just to refresh your memory, here is the original “The World Spins” — not for string quartet, but with the ethereal voice of Julee Cruise: Listen to a ‘Twin Peaks’ Fantasy for String Quartet 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The composer Andrew Norman — at 35, he’s eight years Mr. Adès’s junior — recently called “Arcadiana” “the greatest string quartet composed in the last 50 years.” Review: The Jack and the Calder Quartet in Concert 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z That some distant genetic thread links them to the Beethoven string quartets? Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The size of a string quartet affords musicians creative possibilities they would not get in larger ensembles. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z “Teeming Waltzes” is a classy affair, accompanied by Strauss waltzes, performed live by a string quartet and Glenn Sales on piano. Review | The ballet dancers dived into the ball pit. That’s when the evening really took off. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Most effective were three arrangements of works originally written for string quartet. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2014-03-17T20:59:12Z The languid descending coos in “Dream of the Canyon Wren” — which Mr. Adams has also arranged for string quartet — were rendered with ineffable melancholy. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The Bay Area’s string quartet culture is deeply rooted. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z Apart from “An die ferne Geliebte,” Beethoven’s lieder are chronically overlooked next to his towering achievements in the symphony, sonata and string quartet. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z When performers play any piece they’re excited by, from a Beethoven string quartet to an Andrew Norman piano concerto, they are championing it. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts season was supposed to end on Tuesday night with a virtuoso soloist and a well-known string quartet playing a quintet by a neglected figure of the American avant-garde. Joyful clarinet meets laid-back quartet: Anthony McGill and Pacifica combine in the Fortas chamber series. And she continues to experiment: On “Songs of Ascension,” Ms. Monk added a string quartet to her core ensemble. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z But the headstrong Boulanger decided that the tune was better suited for a string quartet. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Care to hear a venerable string quartet perform one of the finest classics in chamber music repertoire? Juilliard String Quartet balances tradition with change 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It features a chamberlike personnel almost identical to the one assembled here, with Camila Meza on guitar and vocals, Ben Street on bass, Henry Cole on drums, and a dynamic string quartet. Jazz Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:23:06Z The musicians — apart from a string quartet that had podded together during the pandemic — were remote and had their parts mixed into the final product. The pandemic ruined one musical’s debut plans. Not for long 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z He will be joined by the Enso String Quartet for the New York premiere of David Bruce’s “Cymbeline” for mandolin and string quartet. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:31:11Z Anthony was in medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and he had plans to drive down and see a string quartet that evening with his girlfriend. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z When Leon Kirchner’s first string quartet was unveiled in 1950, a Hungarian violinist buttonholed its young American composer. Review: The Orion Quartet Plays Kirchner Disguised as Bartok 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z He’s led an important jazz-tradition trio for most of the last decade, but he’s also been writing music inspired by other traditions and functions, working with poets and M.C.s and string quartets. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The real attraction is the music, as it was at Wednesday night’s concert by the Owls string quartet, in a crypt underneath the Church of the Intercession on 155th Street. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z It was through those recordings that the Berg became, on balance, my favorite string quartet. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Personnel changes in a string quartet — especially one as established as the Cassatt, which was founded in 1985 — are usually announced publicly or, at the very least, with an updated website. The Cassatt String Quartet at Bargemusic 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Ludwig and Amadeus, Meeting for a Nightcap The members of any string quartet will tell you that it takes a great deal of disciplined work to achieve technical finesse and control. Music Review: Eb?ne Quartet at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2010-08-19T21:21:00Z His string quartets are among the finest of their time, pushing the frontiers between folk melody and modernism in Janácek's wake. Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z At the Beacon, she was backed by a rock band — including three members of Nação Zumbi, a renowned band from Recife — and a string quartet, sharing burnished arrangements in a set that relied on ballads. Music Review: Marisa Monte Performs at the Beacon Theater 2013-06-27T21:44:04Z It was the springtime benefit for the Institute of Contemporary Art here, and he was improvising to a string quartet. Lil Buck Expands Jookin’s World 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z “Real Life” was a shot of adrenaline, an electronic dance record that remixed music by the likes of Flying Lotus and took a refreshingly broad view of the string quartet form. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Since I've been ill, late Beethoven, his last string quartets, suddenly move me deeply. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z In his later string quartets, Smith has doubled down on those repetitions. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z But if Crumb wasn’t steadily in the spotlight, his music retained a core of fans, especially for the work that will be the centerpiece of ECM’s concert, 1970’s “Black Angels” for amplified string quartet. Can an avant-garde composer draw new people to classical music? Seattle’s Emerald City Music is betting on it 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z He was backed by a small band, a string quartet and three singers. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Two impressive things stand out: how enormous his arrangements make the string quartet sound, and how fluidly these seven musicians blend together. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z When Peck started to get the itch to choreograph, he heard Stevens’s music again, this time an adaptation for string quartet of the 2001 album “Enjoy Your Rabbit.” Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “Mirage,” a string quartet, evokes both the desolation and the power of the Israeli desert; “Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!,” a kaleidoscopic percussion concerto, builds on the mingled allure and peril of the substances in its title. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z Jolts from the Ninth and Fourth Symphonies pop up suddenly, and there is a particular fixation with the late string quartets. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The Dover showed an affinity for one of Bates’s strongest compositions, the relatively early string quartet “From Amber Frozen,” which percolated with a breezy rhythmic buzz. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The pianists played wonderfully, and so did the Ictus string quartet in the last segment, set to Bartok’s Quartet No. 4. Battle of the Sexes in ‘Bartok/Mikrokosmos’ 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The string quartet scene, too, buzzes with crossover energy. Brooklyn Rider Joins String Quartets Exploring the Nonclassical 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The program includes the world premiere of "Aperture II," for amplified string quartet and live electronics, by School of Music director Richard Karpen. New York's JACK Quartet plans an evening all about Seattle composers 2012-05-16T22:01:08Z There was a time, earlier this century, when youth was taught to regard sung music as somehow inferior to the ‘real thing,’ the ‘pure’ music of orchestra or string quartet. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The second and last of the Juilliard concerts, on Sunday evening, was devoted to string quartets written in the last decade and chosen by Joel Sachs, who directs Juilliard’s contributions to the series. Music Review: Summergarden Features Juilliard Musicians at MoMA 2012-07-23T22:16:03Z Glinka’s Grand Sextet for string quartet, bass and piano in E-Flat Major is another work we hear only rarely. St. Petersburg String Quartet makes accomplished Seattle debut 2014-02-24T19:45:19Z Young string quartets abound at the moment, but the Dorics, a British foursome, are particularly special. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Jacobsen says he's leaving the string quartet, Brooklyn Rider, so he can concentrate on conducting. Orlando orchestra's leader leaps from cellist to conductor 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z “The beauty of a labyrinth is that it can do so many things, like a string bass that can fit into a jazz band, a string quartet and then a symphony,” she said. Flower bed, patio table ... labyrinth? Winding paths are a new backyard trend. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z From time to time, large, silent-movie-type explanations of the action are projected on a big screen on the back of the stage where the “orchestra,” a string quartet and a piano, holds forth. In Series’ latest version of ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ shows its maturity 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z News flash from the string quartet front: Geraldine Walther, the violist for the past 14 years of this unceasingly excellent quartet, is hanging up her bow and retiring next year. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z She decided to look for “a youngish, cool and hip string quartet,” and landed on Brooklyn Rider — one of the most prominent contemporary ensembles. Anne Sofie von Otter set to perform in D.C. in November 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Robert Schumann intended to craft an alternative version of his Cello Concerto, re-scoring it for cello and string quartet, but never got around to doing so. Superb program shows off virtuosic technique 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Few concerts last year could match the group’s mind-expanding cycle of Elliott Carter’s five string quartets. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The one example was Xenakis “Tetras,” one of JACK’s signature wildly woolly party pieces, to conclude the Wallis program that was otherwise a fascinatingly quirky look at the string quartet, American style. Getting to know JACK 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Interplay Concert A string quartet from Pacific Symphony and a cello ensemble from Chapman University perform. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 22-29: Berlioz, Philip Glass and more 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z The resulting works, all for string quartet, are inventive, bristling with the sounds of bows bounced and strings twanged and rubbed. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Broken Story,’ Wit Comes Full Circle 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The idea of hearing a string quartet play in Washington National Cathedral sounds crazy, but the building’s semi-enclosed Great Choir provides quite a backdrop for a series of chamber music concerts. The Diderot String Quartet wins some converts 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z David Bloom will conduct the string quartet that will join them. Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2015-2016 season: 'Straight White Men,' Courtney Love 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z A string quartet playing in an intimate venue that seats only a couple hundred people. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z This performance of the composer’s 15th and final string quartet was something to be cherished. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “Comparatively, to a string quartet, we have not much literature at all,” says trumpeter Amy McCabe, the fourth core member of the group. With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z You can’t have a standard string quartet—two violins, cello, and viola—without one. A $45 Million Viola? The World's Newest Most-Expensive Instrument 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z One piece, “Alma,” for string quartet and piano, is the most English of everything. How Jonny Greenwood Wove the ‘Phantom Thread’ Score 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Near the end of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella program Tuesday night, three local string quartets were arrayed on a darkened Walt Disney Concert Hall stage for George Brecht's String Quartet. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z “The string quartet as theater doesn’t get more exhilarating.” Geoff Nuttall, First Among Equals in Acclaimed Quartet, Dies at 56 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z The Attacca players seem incapable of putting on a dull concert; one of the final live performances I heard before last year’s lockdown featured them in joyous mastery of Caroline Shaw’s string quartets. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Anyone who has ever watched a good string quartet in concert will be familiar with the subtly effective way the players communicate—here a raised eyebrow, there a glance or a nearly imperceptible nod. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z A concert by a string quartet of music by Bartók, Janácek and Berg would appear a polar opposite to the fizz of staged Rossini. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z We will hear the piece one or two times with a full string quartet, and then offer it to the audience. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Time and a Place to Experiment 2012-07-20T17:41:10Z Yet he also wrote uncompromisingly modern and experimental pieces, like the six string quartets, pieces he assumed would never catch on with the public. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z He also was an accomplished singer and played in string quartets with friends. Carl E. Schorske, historian who won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 100 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Most exciting is “Drone Mass,” an oratorio for string quartet, vocals and electronics that’s based on the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Beethoven was also in the picture three years ago when the San Francisco Symphony premiered Adams' "Absolute Jest," a concerto for string quartet and orchestra. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z A musicologist and composition student of Arnold Schoenberg, Wellesz composed his “Five Sonnets” for soprano and string quartet in 1934, before the Nazi annexation of Austria forced him to flee to England. Renée Fleming, Emerson String Quartet present a rapturous recital of Austrian songs 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The nonprofit organization, with a $2.3 million annual budget and nine staff members, has done much to define the 21st-century string quartet. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z But two string quartets took such era-spanning perspectives to fresh heights this year. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z In these songs and the string quartet, he applauded what he called “a strange combination of seeming spontaneity within strict construction.” Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Q: It seems like you're a string quartet going in numerous directions at once, embracing different genres of music, appearing in both traditional and nontraditional venues. Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z DM Stith’s rendition of Gabriel Kahane’s folk-mod ballad “Hard Circus Road” was delightful, as was Ms. Shaw’s own performance — this time as a singer — of her setting of three folk songs with string quartet accompaniment. The Shift Festival: A Reincarnation, With Cherry Blossoms 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Part of the fun is the unexpected: discovering a string quartet, a rock band or an opera singer in the city’s many nooks and crannies. Spare Times for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But I wanted “Cockroach” to be simple: a string quartet that behaves like one instrument, with a narrator. Cosmic Stories: Du Yun Revisits Her Earliest Music Theater 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Written for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the piece is a huge fantasy on themes from late Beethoven string quartets. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z And as soon as the film ends, Llova plans to grab his viola and hightail it to the Bronx, to play at a wedding with his new, unnamed string quartet. Ljova?s Straightforward Career Has Quirky Turns 2010-08-06T17:03:00Z Hard as it is to believe, though, Vienna had no full-time string quartet in 1970. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Curtis will rename its string quartet program and its touring initiative in her honor. Curtis Institute Gets $55 Million Gift 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z By then, “Trio” was devised for an augmented string quartet including two cellists, to prevent the need to hold double-stops in tune for impractically long stretches. Richness in Stasis: La Monte Young Finally Releases ‘Trio’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In the last quarter of the 20th century, the Bay Area outfit revolutionized everything in string quartet country and beyond. The quiet protest, amid bombs bursting, of Kronos Quartet 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Though they met just recently, they share some history: each served a seven-year stint in the string quartet Ethel and pursued solo work thereafter. Music Review: Conrad Tao’s Unplay Festival Doubles as a Party 2013-06-12T21:51:37Z Part of the fun of observing most string quartets is a listener playing armchair psychologist, trying to imagine the fascinating relationships between the players. Hagen Quartet shows exquisite unity in rare SoCal concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z A few days later, one of these AI-generated scores was played by a string quartet in a news conference. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Longstanding professional string quartets are delicate organisms, in which egos must be balanced, personalities meshed and artistic compromises reached. Bytes and Beethoven 2011-01-16T03:00:04Z Well known for his piano concerto, piano miniatures and the incidental music for “Peer Gynt,” Grieg wrote few larger-scale works and only one complete string quartet. Amphion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z If, for example, a string quartet and three players of traditional Vietnamese instruments happen to be in town at the same time, why not try them out in concert together? Works by UW composer Richard Karpen take stage with JACK, SSO 2014-03-13T20:19:56Z And she has been gathering thoughts for a work for the Ethel string quartet and a vocalist. Post-Minimalism and Folk Ballads Fuel a Composer 2011-02-01T22:00:25Z Only 40 years later it was the heyday of the string ensemble, with Haydn, father of the string quartet, in full creative flow. Lincoln Center ensemble lets the cello be the star | Classical review 2013-05-08T17:59:35Z The record incorporates electronics and a string quartet, as well as her voice and flute playing. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z It mixes puppet theater, video, a string quartet and a nest of electric instruments. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z |
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