String quartets and vocal stylists soared across the skies with a cabin full of contented passengers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

Most of his contemporaries didn't know what to make of these late quartets. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

The Four Horsemen that worked Sugar Hill—I remember the worst one had freckles—there was a tough quartet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, remembering a time when one of my student teachers invited me to play in a quartet. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Sherm made sure they weren’t assigned to break down the last “official” act, which was a barbershop quartet of eighth graders. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We were embarrassed by the earthy harmonies they sang, but since the visitors were awed we dared not laugh at the crude, high, plaintively animal sounds Jim Trueblood made as he led the quartet. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A cheer at the sight of the new pastor, the quartet sliding into “Come, Ye That Love the Lord,” and the bronze bells of First Congregational suddenly tolling. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She also worked with the school choir; under her direction, several of Moton’s vocal quartets had come away victorious in statewide music competitions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When we have learned how these are rearranged against randomness, to make, say, springtails, quantum mechanics, and the late quartets, we may have a clearer notion how to proceed. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A string quartet, and all the men in their elegant new officers’ uniforms. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Most traditional Protestant hymns and most "barbershop quartet" music is in this category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At noon on Christmas Day, a quartet of women lay under and around it, a transistor radio serenading them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As we left the Temperant tent, the quartet was singing, in close harmony: . A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The reason for this is that, like Beethoven’s late quartets, Chopin’s music is unusually intimate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was to be a grand affair, complete with a barbershop quartet, pony rides, caramel apples, a pie-baking contest, a bocce tournament, and an evening promenade under the stars. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Fellini-esque quartet spoke in an arcane language and made references to people with feudal titles who lived centuries ago. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Billy thought hard about the effect the quartet had had on him, and then found an association with an experience he had had long ago. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barbershop quartet on the airplane was singing “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nelly,” when the plane smacked into the top of Sugarbush Mountain in Vermont. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like a silent film of a barbershop quartet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us formed a royal quartet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the room another five minutes but never again addressed the solemn quartet that stood with heads down, their heavy legs sagging, the light dwindling from their eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to plan, the barbershop quartet of optometrists, “The Febs,” sang while people drank and Billy and Valencia put their arms around each other, just glowed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience roared when the quartet took the stage, and I leaned back and shut my eyes, pretending the applause was for me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We exist as parts of trios, quartets, and so on. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“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

A quartet of slick trombones played a Sousa march as the steamer Kennebec came in sight of the wharf. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In 2004 the annual cocktail party and auction for the Nantucket Historical Association instituted valet parking and a classical quartet in black tie. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Above them, a quartet of swallows dipped and circled, twittering madly as they plunged after insects. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barbershop quartet was working up to its big finish. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Fie told Montana about the four guards who, in their astonishment and grief, resembled a barbershop quartet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched a comparatively sedate quartet of figures painted on the highest balcony, looking down calmly on the mayhem below them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the plane was safely aloft, the machine that was Billy’s father-in-law asked the quartet to sing his favorite song. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy’s father-in-law laughed and laughed at that, and he begged the quartet to sing the other Polish song he liked so much. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He worked in the mines and sang baritone in a barbershop quartet. After he died, my mother changed our last name. She thought it would make things easier on us.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They interrupted themselves for a moment to sing a synthetic quartet, with full super-orchestral accompaniment and gardenias on the scent organ. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quartet of horses blazed down the stretch at a terrific clip, with Seabiscuit a half length in front. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually a quartet of them, although the other three stood back, allowing the one in the royal blue to be the point man. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The guitarist Yasser Tejeda led a quartet that was one-half percussion, blending rhythmic traditions from his home country, the Dominican Republic, that are rarely put together. A BRIC in Flux Turns Out an Intimate, Focused JazzFest 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

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

Those are qualities well suited to his longtime quartet, with the alto saxophonist Tim Green, the bassist Reuben Rogers and the drummer McClenty Hunter. Jazz Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

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

Once it did begin recording, on Teldec then EMI, the Berg covered large swaths of the quartet canon: two complete Beethoven sets, as well as works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Whether he’s playing with a trio, a quartet or a slightly bigger band, he’s always assembling and realigning his components, pushing into new directions and adding layers without bogging things down. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The quartet will appear on the morning show's summer concert series on Aug. 31 in Central Park. Richardson to rejoin The Backstreet Boys on 'GMA' 2012-07-17T12:19:29Z

But Friday’s concert, the first of two that the quartet presented at the club over the weekend, felt more like a homecoming. Music Review: A Quartet Mixes It Up With Younger Voices 2010-10-11T22:00:00Z

In notable contrast to the revivalist meeting atmosphere provoked by his quartet's live appearances, these albums offered another Brubeck: introspective, wistful, contemplative, with an occasional trace of melancholy. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

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

For this occasion the quartet offered an eclectic, thoughtful program, “From Ars Nova to New Arts.” Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z

Boy bands come and go, but even the best of them are unlikely to surpass the sensation caused by the Liverpool quartet. See All the Major Beatlemania Memorabilia in a New York City Exhibit 2014-02-07T18:01:19Z

You always get the sense that this is a quartet in symphony orchestra’s clothing. Review: Cleveland Orchestra Plays Mozart, and to Its Strengths 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

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 conventional wisdom is that it lacks stars — just a quartet of very good actors from Chicago, headed by Tracy Letts and Amy Morton. Is Broadway Just for Tourists? 2013-01-02T15:30:11Z

The Fabulous Liptones California premiere of this musical comedy about a barbershop quartet that has to replace a key member just before an important competition. L.A. theater openings, July 19-26: 'El Grande Circus de Coca-Cola' and more 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

I didn’t spot Mr. Finckel in the audience, but watching the quartet tear into Beethoven with such boyish exuberance, I was pretty sure he would have looked on with a wide, satisfied grin. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z

A quartet occasionally rises up, but in the opening bars all are united, drawing a veil of mystic chords around the listener. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

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

In both concerts the quartet played with clean intensity, refined but never chilly. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z

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

The penultimate track even suggested a pop song, with a chiming guitar melody, before the quartet finished with a subway-train roar. SXSW: Psychedelia lives! 2014-03-14T15:03:00Z

In concert, these quartets — “Entr’acte,” “Punctum” and “Blueprint” — were even more impressive for their physicality, written as if to convey a conversation among the endearingly charismatic Attacca players. Review: The Uninhibited Joy of Caroline Shaw’s Music 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

The quartet introduced its new first violinist, Joseph Lin, to its New York audience on Monday evening in a free Juilliard School faculty concert at Alice Tully Hall. Music Review: Juilliard String Quartet, With Violinist Joseph Lin - Review 2011-11-29T22:53:52Z

The women anchored the double vocal quartet of Act I when the men started to rush the tempo, but otherwise, ensemble singing was admirably tight. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Lieberman and the players introduced the Brahms with a demonstration of how certain passages were transformed from quartet to string orchestra — a fascinating musical exercise to hear. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z

Starker, more plangent expression was, and parts of the work called to mind quartets by Janacek and Bartok. Music Review: Joel Sachs Takes New Juilliard Ensemble to MoMA 2010-07-26T23:43:00Z

The Turner quartet’s subversive act will, paradoxically, affirm their own position within the museums, biennials, fairs and institutions that confer artistic prestige and power. What’s the Point of the Turner Prize, Anyway? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The third quartet, commissioned for a new concert hall at Bard College, creates the sense of heat through many repeated-note motifs, small cells that are repeated and passed around the four instruments many times. CD reviews: Cliburn medalist takes on Prokofiev with Fort Worth Symphony 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

The cello quartet sometimes produces an unsteady drone, sometimes spare counterpoint, sometimes strands of folk song. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

So I’m starting to find my way toward playing the Carter quartets with musicians who improvise. Ljova?s Straightforward Career Has Quirky Turns 2010-08-06T17:03:00Z

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 7th Hand,” Wilkins’s newly released second album, confirms the quartet’s commanding status on the scene. On ‘The 7th Hand,’ Immanuel Wilkins Sees Jazz as an Escape Pod 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Jimmy Heath, a saxophonist, and Tootie Heath, a drummer, have experienced more than a century of jazz history combined, and they bring a soulful enterprise to their quartet, otherwise made up of attentive youngsters. The Week Ahead 2012-03-09T19:52:13Z

The word “groove” is appropriate here as Pennewell opens the dance, another quartet, with a phrase he riffs on throughout: a weighted, bouncy skip and a sharp kick of the leg. Review: Two Years Later, Garth Fagan Dances Out His Company’s 50th 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

On Friday evening they joined forces at Carnegie Hall, where they performed works that Mr. Shorter wrote and arranged for jazz quartet and chamber orchestra. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

Instead, the new line-up of the New Orleans quartet, whose history stretches back nearly half a century, relied on bombastic jamming rather than the slinky rhythms of classic Crescent City soul. At Hideout Block Party, a little twang, and little funk

The quartet ends, after an angry burst, in calm. Music Review: Playing That Outgrows a Cozy Space 2011-02-04T23:03:25Z

Less than a week later the quartet recorded Mr. Desmond’s “Take Five,” a breezy composition in 5/4, with an airy solo by Mr. Morello over a rigid vamp on piano and bass. Joe Morello, Drummer with Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dies at 82 2011-03-13T21:52:59Z

“The performance had a dangerous, unchecked edge,” Mr. Ross reflected on a performance of Berg, “I have never heard anything quite like it. In the future, this quartet should make its presence felt.” Geoff Nuttall, First Among Equals in Acclaimed Quartet, Dies at 56 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

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

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

“There are some pretty rough things happening in the film,” says Frisell, whose quartet plays the music as they look at the film. 1927 ‘Great Flood’ still timely, especially with Bill Frisell 2013-03-01T21:25:10Z

By the end, the electronics were in full body hugs with the three quartets. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Under the Streetlamp Vocal quartet sings classic doo-wop, rock and more. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 17-24: Segerstrom's Off Center Festival and more 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Walking Distance — a quartet of two saxophones, bass and drums — gets that. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

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

One way to understand the music of the improvising electro-acoustic quartet Glissando bin Laden — especially if you let the name sink in — is as a fight between rigid law and individual choice. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z

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

When Mr. Lake joins the quartet, his saxophone playing sparks new heights of intensity. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

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

But now Mr. Lage is part of a thoroughly grown-up band, Mr. Burton’s new quartet, which played its first North American show on Tuesday night at the Blue Note. Music Review: Swimming in a Sea of Color-Shifting Sound 2010-10-20T22:16:00Z

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 program ended with the New York premiere of “Summer Night Music,” for piano quartet, by another accomplished young composer, Chris Rogerson. Review: The Composers Concert, With David Hertzberg and Other Young Masters 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

The festival, running until May 22, includes performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall and USC in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Calder and Emerson String quartets. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

For this program at Carnegie Hall, the ensemble performs quartets by Haydn, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:06:12Z

The quartet, based for many years at Columbia University, was renowned for performing the work of 20th-century American composers like Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

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

In the central “Past” section, a quartet is dressed like figures in a Byzantine mosaic. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Evening Includes ‘Sunset’ and ‘Gossamer Gallants’ 2014-03-19T20:08:21Z

In addition to the stalwart younger talent in the Fountain of Youth quartet, his company next week will include the august bassist Ron Carter. Jazz Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:02:41Z

Coltrane’s career was soaring by March 1963 — so much so that studio sessions with his quartet were often dominated by new concepts and collaborations. Unreleased Jazz Treasures Are Arriving: Here’s a Guide 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

The biggest reinvention work falls to Henry Cole, the quartet’s drummer; his job is to take on the role that a small corps of percussionists filled on Rivera’s original. The Playlist: Ashley McBryde’s Loner’s Lament, and 10 More New Songs 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

A brass quintet and a horn quartet with flute Mindy Kaufman beamed as they played a 90-minute lunchtime concert in Hearst Plaza. With outdoor concert, Lincoln Center starts path to return 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

True, there is something rather gauche about the sometimes too predominantly unison writing of the C major quartet D32, composed when Schubert was 14. Cuarteto Casals – review 2012-10-11T16:44:30Z

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 quartet’s self-titled debut pops out of the speakers – driving guitars, Ringo’s walloping drums and syncopated handclaps on the incandescent “I Saw Her Standing There.” Top box sets, from the Beatles to Bill Withers 2012-12-10T16:42:00Z

“He wrote about these pieces in the same way I would hear pianists talk about the classic pieces in their repertoire,” said Ian Rosenbaum, a member of the quartet Sandbox Percussion. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

So what is the quartet up to these days? Review: Kronos Quartet Fosters Contemporary Works for Strings 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

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

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

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

But the Nash presented with huge conviction – the four string players who form the ensemble's core are a match for any permanent quartet around today. Nash Ensemble – review 2013-01-14T18:59:06Z

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

Heather Kravas weaves themes of labor and repetition in “a quartet,” choreography that blends folk dance and ballet, at the Coil Festival. The Disrupters 2013-12-26T19:52:24Z

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

The Scherzo of Schumann’s quartet began in an agitated whisper from which the lyrical melody rose, polished and shapely. Review: ‘Romantic Piano Quartets,’ From Chamber Music Society 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

String quartets are an ideal of sorts: ideal in their balance of textures and timbres, ideal in their interplay between musicians working as equal individuals and as part of a harmonious whole. Scottish Ensemble – review 2013-06-11T12:51:42Z

The quartet opened its performance at the Wolf Trap Barns on Friday with the second of these, the Op. Ying Quartet at Wolf Trap Barns 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

The quartet was, you might say, echt Viennese. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

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

The two quartets combined with other string players in a stingingly focused account of Stravinsky’s “Apollo”: too bad that the orchestra pit was considerably overamplified. Review: From Balanchine to Jookin, a Sampler of Summer Souvenirs 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

The quartet for Mr. Suozzi and his three companions is slow: a welcome change of tempo as well as a vivid statement of equality. New York City Ballet’s Very 21st-Century Steps 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

"Another Secret eQuation" is for quartet and irresistible children's choir. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

An arty quartet featuring two trumpeters and two trombonists, mixing ideas from jazz, new classical and Appalachian folk, the Westerlies don’t really have the option of doing a straightforward cover of most songs. Demi Lovato’s Anguished ‘Anyone,’ and 11 More New Songs 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. Brubeck resumed working with a quartet in the late 1970s — finally settling into a long-term touring group featuring the saxophonist Bobby Militello — and thereafter never stopped writing, touring and performing his hits. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

But what he did in the years after that legendary quartet has never been fully seen, much less grasped. Don Cherry is a deserving giant of jazz. Now his wife, Moki, gets her due as his visionary collaborator. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

She played piano and cello, and joined a Baroque recorder quartet in high school. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

A quartet performance that is orchestrated perfectly by Ra. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

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

Courts, a Brooklyn-by-way-of-Texas quartet, slammed together songs like bumper cars, which gave its set a relentless momentum. Pitchfork Festival 2013: It's a wrap 2013-07-18T17:01:00Z

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

A quartet of teenage girls was onstage at the Knitting Factory, the New York club. The riot grrrl movement still inspires 2011-06-04T02:53:25Z

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

Long before Queen Latifah was part of a group of four raucous women in 2017’s “Girls Trip,” she was part of another lovable quartet on “Living Single,” a ’90s comedy on Fox. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Crime Story’ and ‘Riverdale’ 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Computerized techniques transformed and distorted acoustic sounds and blended recorded noises with in-the-moment playing by the quartet. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The quartet, fearful of battery failure, plugs the computers into power sources, covering the wires with a patterned Thai blanket. Bytes and Beethoven 2011-01-16T03:00:04Z

The punk-funk quartet was once notorious for stripping down to just one strategically placed athletic sock in concert, but those rooting for an intentional Janet Jackson-like wardrobe malfunction were out of luck. Review: Shrinking Super Bowl entertainment 2014-02-03T02:49:00Z

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

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

By the early 1960s, the New Yorker announced that the quartet was "the world's best-paid, most widely travelled, most highly publicised, and most popular small group now playing improvised syncopated music". Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012 2012-12-05T18:49:19Z

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

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

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

Another quartet performance — “Sweet Lorraine,” featuring the tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath in mellow, articulate form — was dedicated to Ms. Gordon, the steadfast proprietor of the Village Vanguard. Music Review: 2013 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Are Honored 2013-01-15T22:24:48Z

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

Michael Learns To Rock initially comprised a quartet of two high school friends and their acquaintances who grew up loving pop music. Danish pop band marks 20 years of fame in Asia 2011-04-26T08:01:04Z

The members of the quartet are so similar in type that their biographies, as Davenport relates them, start to blur into one. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The quartet never sounds relaxed; even in lighter and quieter sections its mood is tensile. Music Review: The Pacifica Quartet at Metropolitan Museum - Review 2012-01-08T22:23:19Z

One highlight from the film finds the quartet rehearsing before showtime in front of their tour bus, where they’ve attracted a circle of admirers. A filmmaker reissues what some consider the definitive bluegrass documentary, featuring the Osborne Brothers 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

As impressive as the Texans are taking intricately picked melodies down to their barest state, the quartet creates astonishing textural canvasses when letting loose and deploying an armada of effects pedals. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

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

At neither time does the under-21 Danish quartet address the crowd or attempt to play a note. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

But in concerts at Zankel Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings the quartet ventured down paths less well trodden. Music Review: Takacs Quartet Plays Britten and Janacek at Zankel Hall 2012-04-15T18:18:42Z

How can you keep a historically freighted institution like the jazz quartet fresh? The Playlist: Ashley McBryde’s Loner’s Lament, and 10 More New Songs 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

His most famous composition, “Earth Requiem” for large chorus, symphony orchestra, solo quartet and children’s choir, was performed for the first time in 1997 at the National Cathedral in Washington. Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

As the first season of "Dispatches From Elsewhere" moves forward, the audience is made to understand that each member of its quartet previously lived separated from others because that sort of life simply came naturally. "Dispatches From Elsewhere" stars on connecting to the show's mystery without a murder 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

Filmmaker Lutz Gregor follows a quartet of exiled musicians from Mali who defy religious extremists in order to play their music and appear at the Niger River Festival. At Filmfest DC, a snapshot of a world in flux, with many not-to-miss titles 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

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

During their residency at the Kennedy Center, the quartet will be working with Mason Bates, composer in residence. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Most of his documented improvisations come in the context of larger groups, from quartets to sextets, in which his solo time is brief and leaves listeners hungry for more. The Best Archival Jazz Releases of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Bakers Steak” depicts a green-glass-shaded brass lamp and a centered quartet of illusory brass rings seeming to perforate the picture. ‘Flatlands,’ Where the Familiar Becomes Hypnotically Strange 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“Left Exit,” which began with a kinetic, amusing solo from Mr. Curran and segued into a female quartet, offered a physical accompaniment to philosophers talking about religion, Romanticism and other big topics. Dance Review: An Intimate Setting For a Range of Intensity 2011-04-14T21:35:48Z

As a quartet, they performed these songs at clubs across the city as Meat Loaf and Steinman went looking for a record deal. How Meat Loaf Made a Cult Favorite: ‘Paradise by the Dashboard Light’ 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s a con-artist film — poor family connives its way into jobs serving a younger, wealthy quartet — and the con rides an elevator from comically to tragically desperate. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

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

Others Beethoven’s last quartets, which was perhaps closer, though again not exactly right. Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

The Atlanta-based quartet was at the 9:30 Club for the first time in four years Saturday night, playing an early show to support its eighth album, “Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?” Review | Deerhunter brings its earsplitting sonic tingle to odd and wonderful 9:30 Club show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Because those textures were ancillary, arranged around a working quartet, their absence here wasn’t a problem. Music Review: Big Bang?s Echoes, 50 Years Later 2011-04-22T21:52:51Z

Nothing in the quartet of episodes provided for review explain when and why these dual personalities come to be, although a turn at the fourth's close may lead into that. With the sleepy "Moon Knight," come for the MCU, but stay for Oscar Isaac's dodgy cockney accent 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

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

The double-negative statement mirrors the quartet's methods--divergent, complex, riddled with angular intricacies. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

Every angular theme, scampering pizzicato line and densely ambiguous chord received its due, and the quartet did nothing to prettify Webern’s most aggressive writing. Music Review: Chiara String Quartet Plays at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-29T21:02:00Z

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

The synergy between the solo quartet and the orchestra was breathtaking. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concludes centennial season with energy and style 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

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

Now, with Mr. Streisfeld and Mr. McFarland departing, the quartet announced that it would welcome another “A” to its ranks, the violinist Austin Wulliman, but not a “K”: the new cellist will be Jay Campbell. Two JACK Quartet Founders to Depart 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Set to music by François Couperin, the dance for four is partly a formal exercise in solos, duos, trios and quartets. Dance Review: Nina Ananiashvili at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-06T22:49:43Z

And “Hallelujah Anyway” seems like a summation of Singleton’s talents — as though he’s looking again at aspects of prior quartets from his half-century-plus career and compressing insights, both old and new, into a single work. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

A few quartets, like the Juilliard, Guarneri and Emerson, are household names, at least for classical music lovers. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Every song on this album – a rerun of a garage project that the Brisbane quartet recorded themselves in 2008 – is let down by the immature lyrics. Violent Soho: Violent Soho 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z

The result was the official formation of the quartet. Mark O’Connor comes back to bluegrass, and to perform in Seattle 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

With its cascades of mistaken identities, loves lost and regained and human and supernatural agencies, the Ægypt quartet is Crowley’s most overtly Shakespearean work. John Crowley's new epic 'Ka' is a late masterpiece in a stellar fantasy career 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

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

Titled Call and Response, the annual program links old and new music by commissioning composers to create pieces inspired by masterworks from the quartet repertory. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z

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

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

It’s the first a cappella musical on Broadway, created by a quartet of songwriters including Kristen Anderson-Lopez, a co-author of songs for the animated film “Frozen.” From ‘Pitch Perfect’ to Broadway, He’s Vocal About A Cappella 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Bartók, from 1927, is his shortest and densest quartet: a mini-encyclopedia of unusual string techniques that include string-tapping, sliding pitches and bowing touches that lend an eerie electric sound to the strings. Ehnes Quartet wows crowd in closing chamber-fest concert 2014-02-03T17:59:31Z

She was a newcomer triumphing over veterans, an American television actress taking on distinguished stage thespians from abroad, and, perhaps most importantly, the only comic performance against a quartet of scorching dramatic turns. ‘My Cousin Vinny’ at 30: An Unlikely Oscar Winner 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

The quartet also uses recordings to teach and to prepare for concerts. Bytes and Beethoven 2011-01-16T03:00:04Z

That isn’t to say the group’s sound is not dark and deep, just as it was on “Crescent,” which the quartet had finished recording only weeks before. John Coltrane Took a Detour in 1964. Now It’s a New Album. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

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

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

A 2011 tour saw the quartet coalesce into something promising, with a batch of strong new songs.  Album review: Smashing Pumpkins, 'Oceania' 2012-06-18T14:57:00Z

Mozart’s dedicatory epistle claimed that “you yourself, my very dear friend, demonstrated to me your satisfaction” with the quartets. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z

The quartet played James Bond tunes and Prince anthems and pledged no particular allegiance. The Playlist: Kamasi Washington Releases a Blast of ‘Truth’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

I was familiar with some of Springsteen’s earlier bands, including the heavy metal/jam quartet Steel Mill, but wasn’t old enough to see them in their heyday. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z

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

In the quartet, performed at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City, Queens, Ms. Davis creates a mesmerizing world in which bodies morph into ever-shifting sculptures. Your Week in Culture: Clive Owen, St. Vincent, ‘Marshall’ Before the Supreme Court 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

RN The Wedding House8pm, Channel 4 Another quartet of betrothed couples are fed into the matrimonial sausage machine then spat out the other end looking faintly ashamed. Tonight's TV highlights: The First Men In The Moon 2010-10-18T23:05:00Z

That concert also includes a performance of Mr. Horvitz’s music by the Westerlies, a spruce young brass quartet made of players he has mentored. Jazz Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Visibly under the influence, the quartet seemed genuinely gobsmacked by their good fortune. Klaxons: Surfing the Void 2010-08-19T14:29:00Z

With the addition of the guitarist Joe Pass, the trio became a quartet. Martin Drew obituary 2010-08-12T17:24:00Z

He also sang in a quartet with Paul Robeson, Josh White and Burl Ives. Arthur Lessac, Holistic Vocal Coach, Dies at 101 2011-04-18T06:00:03Z

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

Also, when last we saw the original quartet Samantha was the only one enthusiastically banging on the regular. A "Sex and the City" revival minus Samantha? We're just not that into it 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

At the Miller Theater recently, the Jack Quartet performed Simon Steen-Andersen’s “Run Time Error,” which sets parts of a Schumann quartet in a sort of obstacle course. Chamber Music With a Challenge: Playing From Memory 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

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

At its best, the quartet plays with a brand of fierce, sharply directed energy and the kind of intensely focused sound that makes every line in a texture stand out clearly. Music Review: Amphion String Quartet in Schneider Concerts - Review 2012-01-10T23:14:47Z

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

Those are qualities well suited to his quartet for this weekend run, which features the alto saxophonist Tim Green, the bassist Reuben Rogers and the drummer McClenty Hunter. Jazz Listings for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Morrissey’s current quartet features Mr. Lewis along with the pianist Aaron Parks and the drummer Mark Guiliana, and their rapport runs casual yet deep. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z

Even then, McCartney didn't sing a Nirvana cover: the quartet bashed out a new tune. PJ Harvey fronted Nirvana – almost 2013-03-21T11:00:53Z

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

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

The cello, he added, must also be the “rhythmic monitor” of a quartet by “setting the pulse, articulating points of rhythmic stress, conveying a sense of rhythmic direction.” David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z

Q: How many of you in the quartet are composers? Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z

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

The Pacifica is an adroit group best known for ambitious, large-scale projects: recording, for instance, the complete quartets of Elliott Carter. Joyful clarinet meets laid-back quartet: Anthony McGill and Pacifica combine in the Fortas chamber series.

The quartet in residence will be PubliQuartet, which incorporates improvisation and contemporary compositions into its performances of the canon. MetLiveArts Series Features Podcaster as Artist in Residence 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

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

Realizing that every minute counts, the British quartet charges out of the gate with pogoing rock that drowns out every other surrounding noise. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z

The quartet, swinging mightily, powered straight through the tune. Kirk Lightsey Returns to the Village Vanguard After 25 Years 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The quartet, augmented by a keyboardist, plays retro-based fare suggestive of good-intentioned guys that spend their Friday nights sitting around their house wondering whether to call the girls over which they're obsessing. Rainy start to day one of Lollapalooza 2013-08-02T20:41:00Z

He took up the bass guitar at 7, and now plays in a garage-rock quartet called Calpurnia, named after Atticus Finch’s housekeeper in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Finn Wolfhard, the Young Star of ‘Stranger Things,’ Shops for Vinyl 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

But there’s a lot to like in the lyrical quartet in A Major, Op. Review | Jupiter String Quartet delivers on its name with an out-of-this-world performance 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

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

Her performance with her quartet on Thursday night, at the relocated Jazz Gallery, on Broadway at 27th Street, covered great range of form and sound: controlled and loose, old and new, learned and intuitive. Music Review: Melissa Aldana Quartet at Jazz Gallery 2013-02-03T23:08:18Z

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

On Friday evening, the Chiara String Quartet, this season’s quartet in residence, extended a long history of chamber music in the museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium with a program of Brahms. Chamber Music With a Challenge: Playing From Memory 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

The quartet, which performs works by Beethoven, Bartók, Suk and Ravel at 1 p.m. Ehnes Quartet to make formal debut at SCMS Winter Festival 2014-01-15T23:58:11Z

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

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

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

A short quartet for women is absorbing in its way of showing them as four individuals who happen to share the same space and time. Dance Review: Australian Ballet at the Koch Theater 2012-06-13T22:18:36Z

Perhaps these four books are now a quartet, to be published in single volume down the line. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z

There's an emcee who introduces the songs, a DJ manning a turntable and a quartet of hipsters who join the acetic jamboree when some ecstatic dance moves are added to this otherwise sober singalong. The Wooster Group finds grace in 'Shaker Songs' 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Leading a classic quartet came with certain weighty expectations, but now Brubeck was free to experiment again. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

Certainly the quartet did not lack for self-confidence, cheekily opening the four-night engagement with Jimmy Giuffre's "Four Brothers," the brisk, technically demanding tune that started it all. 'Four Others' charge hard at Jazz Showcase 2011-04-01T15:34:00Z

The Irish quartet, who started as a band in 1976, is no stranger to massive tour success. Fans Finding Both Primary and Secondary Tickets Still Available For U2 Tour 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

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

But the ship’s owner has long been the quartet’s sponsor and has graciously insisted they perform a piece called “Six-Day War” on the boat’s last cruise. Review | A famous ship gets a stormy send-off in ‘The Last Cruise’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

A quartet of Marines began a concerto for strings as the crowd broke up. Perspective | ‘How do you get through that whole stuff?’: Donald Trump leads a nation in prayer 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Yet, curiously, the three-movement quartet does not turn up that often. Music Review: At Columbia, Midday Barber in Strings and Song 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

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

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

A relatively rare excursion into contemporary music for this eloquent quartet is at the heart of this concert, with the American premiere of Carl Vine’s String Quartet No. 6, “Child’s Play.” Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

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

A full chorus in the original version was reduced to a vocal quartet that chimed in with floating, crystalline harmonies. Women Rule at Ojai Festival, Unannounced 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Johnston’s 1988 quartet, illuminatingly played by the Lyris Quartet, is a small masterpiece of altered reality, its every unamplified chord taking on the quality of amplification, of righting a topsy-turvy world. What do microtones have to do with global warming? Two concerts offer an answer 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Born Pink,” the quartet’s second full-length studio album, becomes its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with the equivalent of 102,000 sales in the United States, according to the tracking service Luminate. K-pop Queens Blackpink Hit No. 1 With CDs and ‘Signed’ Digital Albums 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

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

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

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

Vexed and vexing conversations about Brexit emerge, as they do in the first two books of Ali Smith’s planned quartet of novels named after the seasons. With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk Completes an Exceptional Trilogy 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

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

The quartet sits on the front line of sound and rhythm in jazz, and Mr. Klein doesn’t just write adequately for hire; when he composes something, you want to hear it. Critic?s Notebook: Returning to Newport, Encountering Jazz?s Present 2011-08-08T18:25:03Z

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

The essential quartet sound is always there if the members want it — and often, they do — but they can charge into aural worlds that the Juilliard and the Emerson cannot. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

Their latest programme features a quartet of works in different styles and moods. This week's new dance 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

The Match of the Day theme, Handel's Messiah and a "Beatles suite" comprising a quartet of Fab Four favourites also featured in a concert than ran 30 minutes longer than scheduled. Castaways attend BBC Discs Prom 2012-09-04T10:36:08Z

The resilient quartet returns to Seattle for the UW World Series, at 8 p.m. today at Meany Hall. Carpe Diem, at last 2011-10-04T13:38:16Z

However, Texan quartet the Sword get heads rocking and longer locks thrashing in the air. The Sword – review 2013-01-10T17:16:20Z

And Thursday’s concert includes two groundbreaking bands built around the electric guitar: the protean guitar quartet Dither and the dreamy mixed consort Redhooker. The Week Ahead: May 22 ? 28 2011-05-20T20:21:34Z

After the sweet Canadian girls, Balkanes, the quartet of exuberant Bulgarian matrons seemed larger than life. ‘Serenade!’ vocal ensemble festival showcases the sounds of the world 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

That is not a problem with the debut from London quartet Savages, which burns with a feverish sense of purpose: the sheer intensity with which She Will or City's Full are delivered is breathtaking. Savages: Silence Yourself – review 2013-05-02T22:15:01Z

Item: The Demon Dog of American crime fiction's furnishings include multiple editions of his books and a poster of his latest, the opener to his second L.A. quartet, "Perfidia." James Ellroy's Hollywood Hills home for sale at $1.3 million 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

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

As a taster for next November, here's Wayne Shorter and the quartet, playing Plaza Real from his new album, Without a Net. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April 2013-04-19T09:33:10Z

This proved to be a good move, for the concentration and emotional intensity of the composer's best-known quartet benefited from the freshness of both players and listeners. Review: More Olympian music-making at Quilcene's Olympic Music Festival 2010-08-09T17:48:00Z

Its greatest asset at present remains the ever-truthful playing from a quartet of actors who avoid shtick at every turn. Bumpy Starts to London’s Fall Theater Season 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Richards would not go so far as to say when the quartet comprising himself, Jagger, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood would be performing in public again. Rolling Stones celebrate 50th, hint about tour 2012-07-12T10:43:06Z

Pitching hard during the impressive trumpet solo and swirling free as piano took over, the quartet sounded unstoppably inventive. Music Review: Ralph Alessi in a Quartet at the Jazz Standard 2010-08-15T23:13:00Z

“When you get done playing the quartet, you feel like you’ve been through some kind of alchemical process. You come out inspired, elevated, exhausted and rewarded; it’s cathartic every time you play it.” Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

In the early years quartet members divided the labor of taking and shipping orders. Bytes and Beethoven 2011-01-16T03:00:04Z

The latter are created on-site by a quartet of tribal women in traditional shuka robes, who gather for work around a long table every day, singing as their hands slide over the tiny glass rounds. At hotel gift shops, local artisans’ wares replace kitschy keychains and T-shirts 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Any jitters quickly dissipated as the quartet began the hourlong show: two 20-minute sets and an intermission. I Went to My First Classical Music Concert. It Was in My Living Room. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

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

The four of them had been a quartet, and at 36, she was now alone, playing solo. Encounters : Carole Radziwill’s on Her New Novel, ‘The Widow’s Guide to Sex and Dating’ And More 2014-02-26T23:18:30Z

It also showed an openness to new styles in quartet playing, which promises anything but a stock cycle when the Hagens return in April. Hagen Quartet – review 2013-01-31T17:39:24Z

Smokey Robinson wrote several songs for the Marvelettes, who went through a number of personnel changes — becoming a quartet and later a trio — before disbanding in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Gladys Horton, Marvelettes? Lead Singer, Is Dead 2011-01-28T02:23:00Z

Christy is on the end, one of four children warming up with the quartet. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

The suburban and socially unaccomplished sitcom quartet hit the well-travelled holiday road, attempting to large it and lose it in Crete. This week's new films 2011-08-19T23:07:27Z

It was on a Sunday in 1981 that the Emerson made its breakthrough on that very stage, playing all six Bartok quartets in a single, three-and-a-half-hour-plus sitting. Review: The Great Emerson String Quartet Takes Its Final Bow 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

“The quartet ideas the students came with were preoccupied with balance and ensemble issues. But converted into trios, the concerns are now more soloistic — which has been productive in its way.” A Summer Music School for Stars, Amateurs and Students 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Consider D'Rone's version of the standard "It Might As Well be Spring," which he and his quartet took at a medium-swing tempo. Frank D'Rone: Still a king of swing 2011-02-18T15:35:00Z

Lisa Bielawa uses snippets of overheard conversation in “Breakfast in New York,” a melodic vocal quartet with an inviting, detailed violin accompaniment. Music Review: In ?Five Borough Songbook,? 20 Composers Show N.Y. - Review 2012-01-15T20:56:39Z

She came from a musical family, had learned to sing and play guitar, and got some experience of performing on radio in a family quartet. Kitty Wells obituary 2012-07-17T11:27:20Z

The nine tracks of this set are perfect Locke material – ballads and blues which invite the tender approach, but which, with his superb quartet, he gently expands into clouds of ever-changing harmony. Joe Locke: Lay Down My Heart – review 2013-06-15T23:05:02Z

A quartet of contrasting hopes and desires, “How Beautiful the Days” is as delicate and prismatic as spun glass. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z

Some of his quartets require players to move back and forth between traditional notation and Ankhrasmation pages, within a single movement. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

All the tracks on “Freebird,” the sophomore album from the quartet Walking Distance, stem from Charlie Parker compositions, but good luck tracing most of them back to their source material. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

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

With the same propulsive, episodic style she perfected in the Neapolitan quartet, she traces how it is that the consciousness of a girl at 12 becomes that of a young woman at 16. Elena Ferrante Returns With ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Buchanan has pleaded with concert presenters to break with tradition and pay half the quartet’s fee up front for new bookings. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Two further works demonstrated the skills of individual quartet members. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z

Mr. Allen opens “Love Stone,” his ballads record, with “Stranger in Paradise” — his quartet floating in a taut rubato from tentative major to melancholy minor. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

In 1982, King published “Different Seasons,” a quartet of long stories that contained some of his finest work, and eventually led to some memorable film adaptations, among them “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Stand by Me.” Review | ‘If It Bleeds’ reaffirms Stephen King’s mastery of short fiction 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Each time, the quartet sounded perfectly balanced and together. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z

The most violent playing across the series, oddly, comes in the first movement of Mendelssohn’s A minor quartet on “Prism II,” as a young disciple rages at a master’s death. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

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

About four years ago, Mr. McCaslin made a hard turn toward groove as a bandleader, enlisting the other members of the quartet, who have their own separate histories together. On David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar,’ Turning to Jazz for Inspiration 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Amid one quartet, one of its two women is forever trying to be included, to be partnered, to interrupt, to climb or run her way into the picture. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z

Unfortunately, the co-ed Massachusetts quartet is pockmarked with the style's forgettable traits. Pitchfork day 3: Off to a mellow start 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

The group’s debut recording pays tribute to the iconic Guarneri Quartet by replicating that ensemble’s first release 50 years ago: Mozart’s last two quartets, K. 589 and 590. Recording review: Dover Quartet’s homage to its mentors 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

And yes, at about the same time, the Rose Studio offerings include the six Bartok quartets, hardly rarities, played in two evenings by the Jerusalem String Quartet. Review: Escher Players Explore Less Familiar Ground: Zemlinsky’s Quartets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

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

Even before the coronavirus, the string quartet was an endangered species. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

The studios smartly angled their quartet of new films to different segments of the audience. Box Office: Affleck's The Town Gets an Easy A 2010-09-19T13:15:00Z

For the most part, the group played the Dvorak quartets, and even parts of the “Cypresses,” with the same level of passion. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet Plays ?Adventures in Bohemia? 2010-05-17T20:29:00Z

This latest collection is in many ways its complement, for it includes four works for ensemble composed over more or less the same period as the quartet pieces. Posadas: Oscuro Abismo de Llanto y de Ternura; Glossopoeia; Nebmaat; Cripsis ? review 2011-01-20T22:40:01Z

The quartet's success helped affirm the viability of a musical community that didn't depend on the major labels and radio conglomerates for its existence. Post-punk landscape: Before there was a Nirvana, R.E.M. blazed the trail 2011-09-22T16:34:37Z

When he made his debut with the quartet in 2009 he sounded fine, but less than a year later he left the group, citing health problems that made touring difficult. Music Review: Juilliard String Quartet, With Violinist Joseph Lin - Review 2011-11-29T22:53:52Z

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

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

The first of a projected quartet, “Autumn” hovers around the season of harvest and final things, but the possibility of transformation is also very much in the air. Review | Ali Smith begins a new quartet of novels with ‘Autumn’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

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

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

Then a quartet, the group won amateur talent shows, and performed nights and weekends up and down the California coast while the members worked days at a car wash and at other odd jobs. Platters founder Herb Reed dies at 83 2012-06-05T17:46:04Z

The simplest of Mr. Johnston’s quartets incorporate folk music set in clear harmonies that gain a rosy-cheeked innocence from the meticulously tuned intervals. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Textures proliferate quickly in the quartet’s performance: Droning tones, staccato rhythmic explosions and restless pizzicato are all in motion. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The local pop quartet sounded upbeat and peppy until you listened to the lyrics about never getting a fair shake in life. Photos and lines: Cairo's 'Vibrations' 2012 music festival 2012-08-27T17:06:16Z

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

These works thrive at the crossroads: They are in touch with the driving, cohesive sound that his so-called classic quartet had established, but push into a blazing beyond. John Coltrane Took a Detour in 1964. Now It’s a New Album. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

As with the Beethoven, the group made two recordings of both these works by the quartet’s namesake. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

In this quartet, which has been together for over a decade, Hart, 78, has found a healthy mix of late-career comfort and heady creative inspiration. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

He has released two albums with his chordless quartet, Stranger Days, both head-turningly good distillations of his scrappy approach to contemporary jazz. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The program, part of this year’s Mostly Mozart festival’s focus on Beethoven, featured all three Opus 59 quartets written in 1806 for the Russian ambassador to the court of Vienna, Count Andrey Razumovsky. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z

It’s always difficult to bring fresh takes to pervasively familiar repertory, but the standard set by this quartet will be especially hard to top. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

"It's really not a film that represents our point of view so much," Glen Frey said Saturday as the quartet spoke at the Sundance Film Festival hours before the film's premiere. Eagles talk about new Showtime documentary 2013-01-20T02:51:10Z

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

Conceptualized by a quartet of food-industry professionals, the inaugural restaurant week took place in September last year. In Transit: Mumbai to Hold Second Annual Restaurant Week 2011-02-06T11:00:40Z

The quartet's eddying strings didn't add much to her older material, as one mid-tempo, meditative, melodically extravagant song followed another. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z

The final programme of their 2012-13 season included two new quartet arrangements, one by the group's artistic director, Jonathan Morton, the other by English composer David Matthews. Scottish Ensemble – review 2013-06-11T12:51:42Z

“He was much more than a pianist; he was a student of the whole literature. He knew the Beethoven symphonies and quartets by memory.” Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

Denial and the dreamy goth-punk quartet have been gaining local steam, culminating with Dark Smith’s atmospheric debut album, which arrived in late May swirling with hints of shoegaze, post-punk and dissatisfaction with the status quo. Puget Sounds: The top 12 new albums from the Pacific Northwest 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The musical template for Protomartyr, the Detroit quartet that topped the bill Sunday night at the Black Cat, was devised almost 40 years ago by the Fall, a British post-punk band. Protomartyr lives at Black Cat 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

There’s also Jacob TV’s “Grab It!” for boombox and guitar, plus a saxophone quartet. Classical & Opera Music Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

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

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

Can the quartet transfer this energy to a formal setting? Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z

And now, a year after the LP’s release, Zenón is finally back before live audiences; he’ll perform with his quartet at Columbia’s Miller Theater on Saturday. The Bolero Is Timeless. Miguel Zenón Is Giving It a Jazzy Tinge. 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

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

The staging for the black-and-white concert video also felt stale, with the return of the fluorescent wheel microphone from the Irish quartet’s previous stadium tour. Review: Shrinking Super Bowl entertainment 2014-02-03T02:49:00Z

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

On its face, the album is a collection of nine original tunes, ranging from the interior to the expansive, gracefully illuminated by a smart acoustic quartet. Albums From Jesse Stacken and Norberto Lobo 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Even within that quartet’s members, you had that dynamic. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Case in point: the debut by this young Dublin quartet, whose speciality is the gusty, disconsolate anthem, is expected to chart at No 1 this week. Kodaline: In a Perfect World – review 2013-06-20T20:30:01Z

There was even a premiere, or rather a chance to hear the current phase of what eventually will be a three-movement quartet for oboe and strings. Nash Ensemble/Friend | Classical review 2010-03-26T23:00:00Z

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

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

Armitage allows “rhymes to occur as naturally as possible within sentences,” and he leaves the “poem’s musical orchestration to be performed by pronounced alliteration, looping repetition, and the quartet of beats in each line.” The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The show sometimes feels both too packed and yet not detailed enough, but a quartet of fine performances cover the cracks. Liar, Liar – review 2013-02-18T17:43:11Z

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

The drama has strong thematic connections to the Schubert quartet from which it takes its title. Gustavo Dudamel, Eloisa Maturen teaming up for 'Death and the Maiden' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

A lush, brooding celebration of noise, “Seven Pillars” is the sprawling result of a deep collaboration between a composer and a percussion quartet. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Click here to view Dave Brubeck once told me that he never tired of performing Take Five: "It gives a reading of where the quartet's at," he said. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

I can pick up a quartet in Peoria, or in Europe, to perform something like this. Van Dyke Parks gives his 'final performance' on the piano 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The new members will be announced in the spring, the quartet said. ArtsBeat Blog: Tokyo String Quartet Losing Two Members 2011-11-01T19:57:43Z

On Tuesday evening I caught the seventh of eight concerts, which featured two quartets in F major, the first of both the Opus 18 and 59 batches. Review: Ariel Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle at SubCulture, With Energy to Spare 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The history of this quartet, as an entity, begins in the late 1980s, when Marsalis was in his 20s, dabbling in pop music and film scoring. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

But it's the Rigoletto quartet that becomes an affirmative metaphor for the community's effort. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z

“Prism V” came out earlier this month, and it completes a series that has come to mean more to the quartet than they might initially have expected. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Philip Pullman and Philip Reeve both do the same in His Dark Materials and the Mortal Engines quartet respectively. Book trilogies and series – what's the point? 2013-07-01T10:08:15Z

One was the vibrant DakhaBrakha, a quartet from Kiev who are part of an avant-garde performance troupe. Bumbershoot 2014: The last word 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

Chilingirian handpicks students to spend a week at Mendelssohn on Mull performing chamber music alongside him and his quartet colleagues – and to do so in his so-called "right way". Mendelssohn on Mull ? review 2011-07-08T17:25:42Z

Elsewhere operatic quartet Il Divo will receive a special award for artist of the decade. Classic Brits 'may honour shows' 2011-05-12T11:02:19Z

But flash really isn’t the point, nor is partying, on the quartet’s most somber album. Album review: Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'I'm With You' 2011-08-26T16:04:00Z

The D-major Quartet, K. 575, is perhaps the least emotionally complex of Mozart’s 10 mature quartets, and it received a performance of the utmost suavity. Juilliard String Quartet’s artistry is undimmed | Classical review 2013-02-07T17:37:58Z

At the same time, the quartets raise questions of the practicality and cost associated with such an uncompromising compositional voice. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

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

That point was also reinforced by the choice of a local orchestra and choir, with an all-German quartet of soloists. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

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

An onstage quartet plays music by George Fenton, who has worked so often with Bennett. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z

Though the band is a traditional rock quartet at heart, it’s always been open to experimentation. Meet the Seattle musician putting together a local orchestra for The Who’s tour stop 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

It continued with a heady mixture of theater and pop songs, sung with an excellent quartet that included Michael Mitchell on piano, George Farmer on bass, Marvin Sewell on guitars and Kenneth Salters on drums. Music Review: Darius de Haas in ‘If Only for One Night’ at 54 Below, 2012-12-05T23:00:46Z

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

The superb Danish String Quartet offers passionate, elegantly rendered interpretations of its compatriot’s lyrical, characterful quartets. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Danish String Quartet, Thomas Meglioranza, Gidon Kremer and More 2014-02-12T17:05:58Z

The roster was a starry assemblage of chamber music players, including two venerable quartets and three-fourths of another, though, oddly, only the individual musicians — not the ensemble names — were listed in the program. Music Review: Bowing and Plucking to Honor a Festival 2011-01-16T22:09:24Z

In a way, even the project’s old music is new: as Mark Steinberg, the quartet’s first violinist, noted in his introductory comments on Wednesday evening at Weill Recital Hall, most incomplete works are rarely performed. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z

On the other hand, the quartet creates a fun interplay of Stravinsky-esque metric shifts and off-beat accents in the first movement. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The male quartet Hudson Shad sang the hymns for context. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Tongue and his forces, including a fine quartet of soloists, made a decent job of it, with the choir in particular marshalling formidable tone. Vaughan Williams premiere ? review 2011-03-07T22:15:00Z

The quartet plays a bit more restrained than normal, yet the feisty riffs work well for a crowd getting accustomed to being drenched and caked in mud. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

Another odd choice was that most of the numbers were duos and trios, the full quartet only singing at the beginning and the end. Church of the Epiphany’s Tuesday concert series closes with Magnificat 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Set in Victorian Britain and – unusually for children's – without a child protagonist, they resemble Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart quartet, but with a flavour completely of their own. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale – review 2013-01-11T20:00:02Z

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

Their appearance has always been equally striking, especially for the three women in the quartet: towering fur hats, long matching dresses and wildly colorful Iris Apfel-style jewelry. DakhaBrakha, a Band From Kyiv, Saw a War Coming 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

Our first stop, a brambly field where a quartet of sheepdogs were herding a flock, their coats bearing bits of the underbrush. Style Invitational Week 1104: HOW’s this? Compare 2 things with the same abbrev. 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

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

Attacca, which has been making a name for itself with recordings and high-profile engagements, including as the quartet in residence last season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, called the project simply “The 68.” For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The latter remark comes in a review of Palma Violets, the London quartet whose lot it is to be this year's Anointed Saviours of Indie. Palma Violets – review 2013-02-14T15:30:02Z

The indie quartet, who released their first album "Leisure" in 1991 and are best known for the 1994 No. 1 album "Parklife," will be honored at the February 21 ceremony in London. UK band Blur to receive lifetime BRIT award in 2012 2011-12-08T01:28:03Z

Young, pealing voices sing largely tonal lines over a luminous mix of organ, cello quartet and harp. Music Review: Trinity Church Brings New Music to 9/11 Remembrance 2011-09-09T23:31:31Z

Landscapes in old Richmond neighborhoods were dominated by a quartet of rather lame workhorse plants, namely boxwood, crape myrtle, English ivy and nandina. How to shift your gardening perspective to adapt to a changing climate 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

These lilting, observational poems often invoke music: ballroom dancing, a Beethoven quartet, Scottish songs. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

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

The first of three discs here is defined by the kinetic synergy between the saxophonist’s quartet and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

What other quartet of that era would have made its recorded debut not with standard repertoire but with a cantata by Darius Milhaud, written just a few years before? 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

When the quartet folds together onto the floor, Mr. Collwes’s arms spread back to protect the women, like a parent bird in the nest. Dance Review: A Golden Age Continues Without Its Midas 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

His quartet’s 1959 recording of “Take Five” was the first jazz single to sell a million copies. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

Elsewhere, a woman’s voice helps carry the verses in “Home Alone Tonight,” where Luke Bryan engages in a breathless back and forth with Karen Fairchild, the not-so-secret weapon in the country-pop quartet Little Big Town. Bro Country Duets, but With Pop-Star Gals 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The prolific Atlanta quartet return with Halcyon Digest, an album recorded largely in their native Georgia and featuring the moving track He Would Have Laughed, which is dedicated to recently deceased Memphis musician Jay Reatard. Deerhunter ? Halcyon Digest: exclusive album stream 2010-09-22T11:05:00Z

At least five Seattle writers wrote about local party-rap quartet Mad Rad this week. Mad Rad, five ways 2010-12-02T17:13:00Z

As a whole, this was an unusually well-balanced, well-blended vocal quartet. L.A. Master Chorale delivers a mighty, thrilling Verdi Requiem 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Having avoided that battle, however, he clearly had plenty of others over the years with his famously tense quartet, the disharmony a source of much of their fascinating rhythm. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Now if I could take these lyrics into the recording studio with this quartet and I'm sure to go platinum. Don't Drop Off Your Key Lee, Casey James has 50 Ways To Leave 'American Idol' 2010-05-19T15:08:00Z

After leaving Princeton, he spent more than a decade in Rome, supported by three Prix de Rome fellowships and concert tours with his quartet, the American Jazz Ensemble. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

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

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

The opener is a sparring horn-and-drums reduction of the bebop standard “Blue ’n’ Boogie,” and later there are tunes arranged for trio or quartet. Playlist: New CDs: Béla Fleck, Anna Ternheim, Tom Harrell, Mike Gamble 2012-06-01T16:00:00Z

One of those Atlantic recordings, “Free Jazz,” featuring Coleman’s double quartet, was famously paired with a Jackson Pollock painting as the cover art. Seeing Ornette Coleman 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

In January the quartet played a concert in a series at ClefWorks, a chamber music festival in Montgomery, Ala. The program had the Machaut arrangements and works by Webern and others. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

Most of the group’s members — including the drummer Bob Moses, who would also join the Burton quartet, and the saxophonist Jim Pepper — had jazz backgrounds. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

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

Despicable Me shrugged off the challenge of a quartet of new films squarely aimed at the October half-term market. Paranormal Activity 2 exorcises ghosts of Blair Witch on UK opening 2010-10-26T15:57:00Z

“We studied the repertories of both quartets and found very little overlap,” Mr. Streisfeld said. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

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

The King Sisters started as a trio and at one point included six members, all but one of them actual sisters, but for most of their career they were a quartet. Marilyn King, Last of Singing Sisters’ Group, Dies at 82 2013-08-09T19:31:05Z

Like that quartet — and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, in other territory — the Bad Plus developed a devoted following, while reflecting a cultural moment. The Bad Plus Greet the New Year With a New Lineup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

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

Boasting a fistful of international prizes, the promising American quartet plays with impeccable refinement and offers judicious interpretations of the standard repertory. Dover Quartet boasts young stars in the making 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

The group has commissioned at least 120 works for saxophone quartet, including one by Samuel Phillips-Corwin, which will have its premiere on Thursday at Symphony Space. The Week Ahead: May 27 — June 2 2012-05-25T18:53:41Z

A call from Cropper brought Dunn to Stax Records in 1964, where he become part of Booker T and the MG’s, a biracial quartet that played on some of the era’s biggest hits. Donald 'Duck' Dunn dead at 70: A soul rhythm-section great 2012-05-13T23:40:00Z

Homegrown quartet Dead Cat Bounce made a huge impression with their tight-trousered musical spoofs, skewering Westlife and children's television – easy targets, but the set was brilliantly executed. Cat Laughs 2010-06-08T14:32:00Z

This Brooklyn duo will perform new works with the contemporary classical music quartet So Percussion as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival. Pop & Rock Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:40:13Z

The quartet’s first chart-topping album pushed its career total past 60 million album sales. Album review: Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'I'm With You' 2011-08-26T16:04:00Z

He was with the quartet on its 1958 State Department-sponsored tour that took the group to 14 countries, including Poland, India, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. Legendary jazz drummer Joe Morello dies at 82 2011-03-13T23:46:04Z

"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

Nothing Collins wrote in the remaining two decades of his life comes close to the 1860s quartet. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

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. Lin will start with the quartet next year. ArtsBeat: New First Violinist for Juilliard String Quartet 2010-10-21T20:04:00Z

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 house then breaks apart into several rooms as a quartet of compelling performers roam through and around them — wailing blues and singing spirituals, dancing off walls, spouting urgent poetry, handing out chunks of watermelon. Going green in black America at heart of Marc Bamuthi Joseph work 2012-05-31T23:32:14Z

Like the opening Haydn piece, the Beethoven quartet begins with a few delicate, harmonically ambiguous measures. Music Review: London Haydn Quartet Brings Its Gut Strings to the Morgan 2014-01-22T20:26:03Z

This foursome, led by the soloist Christian Tetzlaff, recently released a superb recording of Haydn and Schubert, and here they reprise that release’s account of Schubert’s tumultuous last quartet. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Another band whose debut album did well in end-of-the-year polls, the California quartet offer a dreamily beguiling sound, designed, they insist, to be "listened to stoned". The best pop for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:03Z

Revenue from CDs is down, and quartets typically command comparatively low fees, often footing their own travel expenses. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z

If you can imagine a barbershop quartet on psychedelic drugs, you have a pretty good idea of what the Belgian designer's collection was all about this season. Bill Gaytten steps out of the shadow at Galliano 2011-06-25T00:24:32Z

As this was my first encounter with the quartet, I can’t address its artistic evolution, but I admired its professionalism and spirit. A fine evening with New Zealand Quartet 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Throughout the concert, the higher-pitched voices in the quartet were as powerful as the cellos. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

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

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

The Coltrane quartet modeled a new kind of ancient thinking about music: as a collective ritual, one that lived by a pledge of mutual independence as well as support. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

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

To me, the Takacs will forever be primarily a Beethoven quartet. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

That piece rarely repeats itself, but the Schubert ones do; the violist Asbjorn Norgaard, speaking from the stage, described the “Rosamunde” as one of the most repetitive works in the quartet repertoire. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

They were initially turned down, but Jay Emerson Williams and the young quartet kept returning and they were finally accepted, their show bringing them attention from Chicago, Cincinnati and Hollywood. 'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at age 84 2012-09-26T14:41:23Z

His new album, “#Jiveculture,” involves a quartet anchored by the great bassist Ron Carter. Jazz Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

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

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

The box set that captures what will likely be the quartet's final concert is a fitting capstone for a band that remains as popular today as it was more than 40 years ago. Review: Box sets from Cash, Kiss, Jackson, others 2012-11-20T19:58:14Z

“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

The Chicago quartet’s music does indeed feel like the voice of doom descending from on high. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

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

In a little under two years, the group made enough music for nine records with Atlantic, including “Free Jazz,”made with a “double quartet”of four musicians in each audio channel. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Wannabe fifth members can choose one of five hits from the Swedish pop quartet’s 1970s heyday: “Waterloo,” “Dancing Queen,” “Mamma Mia,” “Money, Money, Money” and “Winner Takes It All.” You can dance, you can jive — at Stockholm’s kitschy ABBA museum 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Smith’s latest novel, the first in a planned quartet pegged to the seasons, is about the friendship between a 101-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman in Britain after the Brexit vote. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

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

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

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

Elsewhere on its latest tour the quartet offered a representative handful of Dvorak’s works. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2010-05-10T22:14:00Z

The originally announced program order was changed so that Shostakovich's eighth quartet, instead of Beethoven's first, opened the proceedings. Review: More Olympian music-making at Quilcene's Olympic Music Festival 2010-08-09T17:48:00Z

Tonight's headliners, a talked-up rock quartet from London called Palma Violets, will for a few hours become the centre of the Forum's universe before bussing away and blending with the venue's rich history. Powered by pure passion: the music venue that runs on love alone 2012-11-25T00:05:30Z

But here, and in a Borodin quartet that opened the concert, the music was robbed of its fullest expression because of the players’ aversion to off-the-string bowings. Leipzig Quartet plays masterfully but without subtlety 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

When he said that, he was in the midst of performing and recording some of the most beautiful, nimble music of his life, as a soloist, in duets, and as a sideman in a quartet. Hank Jones: A Legendary Work Ethic 2010-05-18T17:21:00Z

Seemingly content, if something of a loner, Harry jokes with the regulars at the local lunch counter and is a member of a singing quartet composed of balding businessmen. "Harry" takes meandering look at masculinity 2010-04-17T00:45:00Z

That’s one film with a quartet of likely nominees in its cast. What Will Be Nominated for Oscars on Tuesday? What Won’t Be? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

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

“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

A similar sense of drive in 2000 found the Emerson playing the complete Shostakovich quartets in New York and London, culminating in a critically hailed, staged event called "The Noise of Time." 'The Emerson' returns to Seattle, promising world-class musical experience 2010-04-07T23:54:00Z

As on their new release, they play the complete quartets of Bartok — odd numbers on Tuesday, evens on Wednesday. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

He simultaneously glorified the traditional forms — symphony, sonata, quartet — and pushed them to the breaking point. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Paris had a quartet of major cultural openings this year. 10 Works of Art That Evaded the Algorithm This Year 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The coy miens worn by the quartet didn’t help matters: it’s all pretend, darling, they seemed to remind. Dance Review: Recalling a Collector of Bold Art and Life 2010-10-21T22:12:00Z

It was on that show that Williams - who launched his own career as part of an all-brother quartet - introduced the world to another clean-cut act - the original four singing Osmond Brothers of Utah. 'Moon River' crooner Andy Williams dies at age 84 2012-09-26T14:41:23Z

No quartet playing today has the Danish’s way with late Beethoven. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

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

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

There will also be music from big bands, quartets, piano players and cabaret singers alongside radio plays and old-fashioned lawn games, such as a coconut shy, boules and hoopla. This week's new events 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Cheerleading, Greek folk dance and classical ballet are a few of the systems she deconstructs in her new work, “a quartet,” part of Performance Space 122’s Coil festival. Dance Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:16:06Z

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

"In the Pit of the Stomach," released in October on FatCat Recordings, finds the Glasgow, Scotland, quartet building on its promising 2009 debut, "These Four Walls." Promising band jets into Seattle 2011-11-10T22:22:08Z

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

Mr. Speed will lead Pachora, a quartet exploring rhythms and harmonic modes from Balkan music and other Mediterranean traditions. New Year’s Eve 2017: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

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

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

This would have marked the original quartet's first performance together in more than 13 years, at the end of a reunion which lasted from 1996-2000. Kiss pull out of induction concert 2014-02-25T17:43:32Z

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

At least there’s joy to be had around the edges, especially in the funky chromaticism of the barbershop quartet, whose rendering of “Sincere” is like a roller coaster that keeps going up and up. How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mitchell’s quartet would eventually become a collective, calling itself the Art Ensemble and then — after Lester Bowie pawned his furniture to fund a full-band move to France in 1969 — the Art Ensemble of Chicago. 50 Years On, the Art Ensemble of Chicago Is Still Transforming 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

In a different sense, his legacy is tied to a constant: The classic quartet that he held together for four years in the 1960s changed jazz forever. How Pop and Jazz Revisited the Past in 13 Boxed Sets 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

And that is the brief of Spiritual Unity, a quartet convened for special occasions, with the trumpeter Roy Campbell, the bassist Henry Grimes and the drummer Chad Taylor. Pop Music Choices for New Year?s Eve 2011-12-29T23:59:04Z

Similar adjectives come to mind for other scores, such as the quartet “Carrot Revolution,” an immediately engrossing work of pure excitement. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Lukewarm reviews and a mixed response from its fan base prompted the Irish quartet to adopt a more cautious approach on subsequent tours and albums, a pattern that held true Tuesday. Concert review: U2 at Soldier Field 2011-07-06T05:00:00Z

He was improvising on the level of sound, as much as notes, and he’d already started bringing in new, more freewheeling collaborators to join his quartet. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

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

For the Atlanta-based Mastodon, it's the norm as the quartet delivers heavy music of complexity and deep emotion, while exploring sounds that don't easily fit alongside typical metal fare. Mastodon explores the heavy side of life in 'Once More Around the Sun' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Of course this quartet leaves the house to venture into the big city. The Sitter: Guns, Cocaine and Jonah Hill's Adventures in Babysitting 2011-12-08T11:58:50Z

And not only through Beethoven; the second half of the programme is a performance of Shostakovich's confessional eighth quartet – agitated, difficult music for a child. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

In a mere 25 minutes, the quartet of hardcore-punk veterans left an indelible mark on the festival. Wolf gang grins, but doesn't flinch 2011-07-17T23:23:00Z

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

He made close observations and sketches of subway riders in occupied Paris, but the quartet of gouaches that resulted pictures commuters in a childlike, almost demented fashion. Review: Drawings? Maybe, but Certainly the Art of Frustration 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Yet there's nothing nostalgic or sentimental about Goines' clarinet playing, as he demonstrated on Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You," leading a quartet. Victor Goines gets a spotlight of his own 2011-03-12T15:49:00Z

A quartet of violas might sound like too much of a good thing, but this warm, elegiac work conjures a striking range of textures and effects and handles them masterfully. Kennedy Center Chamber Players present unusual, rarely heard music 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Robert Sirota’s “Assimilations,” a quartet for piano, violin, cello and clarinet that also received its world premiere here, was the most personal work in the lineup. | Washington Square Ensemble: Washington Square Ensemble Make Waves at Merkin Hall 2010-04-08T22:43:00Z

Now, the quartet seems to have figured out that innovation is their enemy — so they’ve abandoned it. Review | Blasting songs of death and destruction, a Metallica concert somehow feels like pure joy 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Manchester-based quartet cram prog rock, math rock, art rock, quirky time signatures and 1980s keyboard stabs into a complex, frenetic sound. NME Radar Tour 2010-04-30T21:05:00Z

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

“Her part had no arias, but her bright, sure voice led sweetly and gracefully a series of swiftly paced quartets, quintets and sextets,” Time magazine recounted. Mattiwilda Dobbs, pathbreaking operatic soprano, dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Britten would achieve more in later quartets, but the Takacs made a largely agreeable case for this youthful effort. Music Review: Takacs Quartet Plays Britten and Janacek at Zankel Hall 2012-04-15T18:18:42Z

The program was the group’s second of three concerts at Alice Tully Hall this spring juxtaposing Haydn’s Opus 76 quartets with Beethoven’s Opus 18 works, exploring the stylistic similarities between them. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Kreis, who originated Lewis and plays him with a funny, cocky streak augmented by blistering piano work, is the first of the original quartet to go. Million Dollar Quartet' rocks and rolls onward 2011-03-18T13:01:03Z

Mr. Arditti, along with the rest of the Arditti Quartet, spent Thursday morning coaching some of the young composers in their works for quartet. Music: June in Buffalo Celebrates 35th Anniversary 2010-06-04T21:58:00Z

The quartet, whose members adopted Ramone as their last name, went through multiple lineup changes. Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton win lifetime Grammys 2010-12-22T18:43:11Z

The Sheffield, England, quartet began as buzzed-over darlings eight years ago and survived that experience to mature into a formidable, lasting act that’s learned the art of keeping our attention. Bonnaroo features mini-British Invasion in 2014 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

There are still points in the quartet that remain puzzling. Music Review: One Fresh Score in Place of Another 2011-03-09T22:30:16Z

The most interesting of the guitar bands lumbered with the "hotly tipped for 2013" tag, this London quartet's debut album is eagerly anticipated. The best pop gigs and albums for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z

A long quartet for one woman and three men changed its internal structure again and again. Review: Thomas Adès Calls for Complexity at City Center 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

The quartet played both works with a warm and airy tone. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

At the center of the program was the premiere of a quartet by Michael Gilbertson. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

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

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

He will present a quartet featuring some of the musicians from that record to Le Poisson Rouge at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 5. Drummer Tony Allen, Blending Art Blakey and Afrobeat 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

It is based on a single, quirky melody in constant, telling transformation that is as close to a Beethoven late slow quartet movement that Reich is ever likely to get. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

This first episode in his Alexandria quartet bears influences from European and Hollywood films and pulses with its own cinematic vitality. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z

Neither still exist, but the current Pacific Quartet got its start here and so did the three quartets appearing this weekend.  A weekend flock of L.A. string quartets 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But the orchestra; the superb quartet of vocal soloists; the powerful, precise San Francisco Symphony Chorus; and the crisp Pacific Boychoir are part of a misbegotten theatrical presentation that confounds far more than it illuminates. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Several years ago, he tells me, he abandoned listening to Beethoven and Shostakovich quartets as he worked, in favour of Bach and Schubert. Leon Kossoff's love affair with London 2013-04-27T10:00:04Z

That mastery is displayed very differently, with playful insouciance, in “Pas./Parts,” a dazzling cascade of solos, duets, trios, quartets and ensemble pieces that shows the company as a post-“Middle” generation. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z

At its centre were two song-cycles for baritone and string quartet. Maltman/Nash Ensemble – review 2013-02-25T16:00:00Z

But you could feel the freshness of his experimentalism throughout: Was this a trio plus a solo, or was it a quartet? Rendering ‘On the Road’ as Dance? That and Other Audacities 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Its debut LP, “Kill ’Em All,” also turned 40, just days before the quartet arrived in New Jersey for the first North American date on its M72 World Tour. How Metallica Hard-Wires a Different Set List Every Night 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z

His quartet — with the tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, the pianist Ethan Iverson and the bassist Ben Street — will draw partly here from its most recent album, “One Is the Other.” Jazz Listings for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

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

His sixth and most recent string quartet is no exception. Arditti Quartet/Jake Arditti - review 2011-02-06T17:46:12Z

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

The Big Bang Theory, which has notched up five seasons, revolves around a quartet of genius-level scientists, full-blown nerds who are more comfortable with quantum theories than social situations. Your next box set: The Big Bang Theory 2012-08-02T15:30:02Z

Add another young quartet to the cornucopia of excellence we are treated to at the moment, with these winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

There was some of that impish quality in the Danish quartet’s playing, despite its elegance and brilliance. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

A minister taught him the rudiments of the guitar and, at 18, Mr. King joined a local gospel quartet. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

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

Long before — spoiler ahead! — shots get fired, the play’s quartet of aspirational Americans have gone down the path of spiritual self-extinction. Review: Judi Dench Brings Titania to Life Again 2010-02-23T11:35:00Z

At the Vanguard this week, Mr. Akinmusire, 34, will appear with a quartet, allowing himself a rare level of unfettered prominence. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

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

The four men wear white tie and tails; in an extraordinary male quartet, they hold their hands like paws, get down on all fours and conjoin as if becoming two-headed beasts. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the David H. Koch Theater 2014-03-12T21:55:29Z

“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

On Thursday evening, two eminent string quartets presented premieres in New York. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Country quartet Little Big Town will bring twang, Wilco will offer inventive rock and the Alabama Shakes will celebrate its 2015 breakout year with a night of Southern soul and rock in the famed amphitheater. High tide of music to wash over L.A. this summer 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Cunningham, when pressed, actually cited Krishna and his handmaidens as the starting point for this quartet. MoveTube: A sublime snippet of Merce Cunningham dancing Septet 2012-05-23T13:02:50Z

In the prevailing spirit of the idea that engaging the audience is of paramount importance, Doyle Armbrust, the quartet’s violist, wrote quirky, personal program notes encouraging nonmusical comparisons. Review | Whistles, rumbles, bleeps: New Icelandic music sounds like no string quartet you’ve ever heard 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

And it laid the groundwork for the quartet’s big breakthrough two years later, “Siamese Dream,” one of the era’s cornerstones. Smashing Pumpkins revisit breakthrough albums 2011-11-27T21:47:00Z

All of the films within the film — except for the fifth one, and significant parts of the third and the fourth — star the same quartet of women. ‘La Flor’ Review: Four Women in Search of a Movie 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The same quartet accompanied the excellent Choir of Trinity Wall Street, conducted by Julian Wachner, in “The National Anthems.” Review: Pérotin and Lang, 800 Years Apart, at Trinity Church 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

“The bass strings are something like rain; the small strings talk like a whisper,” a vocal quartet sings delicately above trilling strings and piccolo, while the kantele creates a resonant cascade of sound. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

One night, a friend invited her to sit in with a quartet at a Windy City club. Jackie Cain, sparkling jazz singer in duo with husband for decades, dies at 86

“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

There is a rap number, and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” arranged as a barbershop quartet. | 'The Muppets': ?The Muppets,? With Jason Segel and Amy Adams - Review 2011-11-22T13:00:00Z

Forget retirement — the first episode involves the quartet’s quest to scratch together enough cash to pay their $70 electric bill. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Moore's wonderful facility for fresh-minted dialogue, and a quartet of terrific performances, ensure this is one of the most entertaining evenings currently available in London – even if the movie scenario extends credibility way too far. Straight – review 2012-11-28T14:32:59Z

This “Rach Fest” will feature a quartet of rising stars from around the world, bringing new perspectives to the beloved compositions. Rach Fest: two nights, four concertos, four pianists 2012-12-28T21:53:25Z

The acclaimed quartet, founded nearly 25 years ago, has such a great blend that The New York Times recently described the Jerusalem’s sound as “a single instrument with 16 strings.” Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Within this quartet, “Breaking Bad” is most similar to “The Wire,” and indeed is its twin and mirror image. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z

Arranged for orchestra, Boccherini’s piquant quartet “Night Music of the Streets of Madrid,” which opened the concert, anticipated Ives’s tone painting. The Knights and Timo Andres Fill Out Mozart’s ‘Coronation’ 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The brilliant drummer in that quartet, Jack DeJohnette, then helped Miles Davis push into rock and funk. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

The bowtie is the affectation for hipsters, barbershop quartet singers and television pundits, not the leader of the free world. The best and worst presidents on TV 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

As part of the award, the Calidore quartet will also be presented by the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor next season. Calidore String Quartet Wins $100,000 M-Prize 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Philadelphia dad-rock quartet The War on Drugs perform right before Rocky, which provides one of the weirdest back-to-back musical juxtapositions of the entire weekend. What to see at Capitol Hill Block Party 2014 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Opening the show was a local quartet, Bed Maker, that was entirely compatible with the out-of-towners. Review | At Rhizome, Live Skull and Thalia Zedek provide echoes of ’80s post-punk 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

And for 43 years, before retiring in 2009, the Guarneri String Quartet was the Met’s quartet in residence. Music Review: The Pacifica Quartet at Metropolitan Museum - Review 2012-01-08T22:23:19Z

If Bellow did so as well, it’s not part of his scant quartet of film essays. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a crowded field for ambitious young string quartets. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

That quartet of seminal shows are now history, and networks are ravenous to find the next series that will lodge itself inside viewers’ consciousness and inspire furious pub debate long after they have finished. After Mad Men and Breaking Bad, what’s next for The Great American Drama? 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

A quartet formed at last year's festival returned for a concert hosted by the chief of clan Maclean at Duart castle. Mendelssohn on Mull ? review 2011-07-08T17:25:42Z

Why this quartet – which toured as the Dave Brubeck Trio featuring Gerry Mulligan – isn't cited as one the great acoustic bands of the late 1960s/early 1970s, I'm never quite sure. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

In the fifth quartet by Mr. Carter, an uncompromising composer of complex, modernist music, there is perhaps a mellowing of temperament, although certainly not of intellectual heft. Review: The Pacifica Quartet Interprets Composers’ ‘Last Words’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

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

And the Emerson String Quartet will play Bartok’s six quartets and Beethoven’s “Razumovsky” Quartets in three concerts. Lincoln Center’s Next Season: New Isolde, New John Adams Concerto 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Then all three quartets joined in full-throated affirmation in the confessional “I, I and my sins.” Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

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

Ogawa plays her own son and father onstage, but cedes the role of herself to a quartet of other actors, an apt embodiment of the multiple instincts and voices that animate a single mind. ‘The Nosebleed’ Review: Reconciling the Ghosts in the Attic 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Its four characters were “The Odd Couple” doubled: a quartet who shared little in common but a roof and utility bills. Rik Mayall dies: Comedian played spastic punk in 'The Young Ones' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

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

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

Until, that is, her employers, Krielson International, send her to the Niger Delta following the kidnapping of a quartet of oil workers. Ask the Chancellors | Blood and Oil | How to Win An Election | Glee and more | Watch this 2010-03-29T05:45:00Z

Soon after arrival we glimpse the resort’s defining image, a quartet of golf bags propped against one of the white columns on the front porch. ‘Taking the waters’ at the regal, glamorous Homestead Resort

Ms. Yang will also perform the same quartet on Sunday in a program featuring works by Mozart and Jean Françaix. Opera & Classical Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Each of his quartets is a singular interrogation of the form. Review: JACK Quartet Conquers an Elliott Carter Marathon 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

But all this is to be disrupted, the quartet challenged both singly and as a group. A Late Quartet – review 2013-04-06T23:06:19Z

Ali Smith begins a new quartet of novels with ‘Autumn’ Review | Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ concludes her seasonal quartet on a high note 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z

The quartet “Where Is Evil” binds the opera’s four voices into a tight matrix of counterpoint as the orchestra shifts from startling blasts to patches of elusive harmonies. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

He also sang baritone in the group’s gospel quartet. Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Banjo Player, Dies at 88; 2012-03-29T05:13:11Z

Every night you’ll find pick-up jams on front porches, performances in theaters and quartets that pack storefronts, an old courthouse and even a Dairy Queen. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z

After intermission Mr. Galway joined the quartet in Arthur Foote’s “Night Piece,” the first movement of his “Nocturne and Scherzo.” Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z

Records revealed the existence a 56-year-old tape of him performing the suite in Seattle, in fall 1965, with an expanded version of the quartet. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The quartet's promised moment failed to materialise, and by the end of 1969 they had split up. Honey Ltd: 'After 45 years, we're finally going to get copies of our own record' 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z

Each is a quartet for two men and two women; each responds, though without slavishness, to multiple layers of the music; each catches Bach’s opposition and connection of emotionally fraught lines and larger mathematical structures. 2010-01-21T06:42:00Z

Reviewing the performance in The Times, Raymond Ericson wrote: “The quartet clearly deserves its name. Composers are lucky to have it around.” Anahid Ajemian, Violinist and New-Music Champion, Dies at 92 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Richards also recalled playing Haydn quartets from memory in college as “completely exhilarating.” Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

Some contemporary ensembles perform the quartet with the original, while others use the sunny substitute. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-06T00:35:05Z

Even more intensely than a musical quartet, the dancers must maintain the same pulse as a group. Dance: D D Dorvillier’s Beethoven Piece at the Kitchen 2012-09-23T04:57:45Z

Whatever nooks and crannies they missed were usually occupied by the different groups of musicians, including a jazz trio and an a cappella quartet performing Mr. Zorn’s compositions. The Best Art of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

This week, the ensemble is performing the quartets in chronological order but on two days, one week apart, a cycle that opened Sunday afternoon at the Phillips Collection. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The Drums is a New York quartet destined for big things, according to the NME music magazine, which called them "the most talked-about new band on planet Earth." 2010-01-08T18:09:00Z

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

To many musicians, the 38-year-old quartet would be a daunting family to marry into. Emerson String Quartet Adapts to a Different Cellist 2014-04-11T21:23:13Z

In one male quartet, a tire functioned as a wheel in a choreographic machine, speeding and smoothing the connections among the men. Dance Review: Michel Kouakou’s Choreography Has Echoes of Ivory Coast 2012-11-19T22:51:01Z

The quartet of leads is blander than bland. Not much tempting about ‘Tyler Perry's Temptation' 2013-03-29T21:39:38Z

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

And as the quartet swiftly invents skits based on what they discover about a few patrons, things definitely stall out sometimes. Review | Upright Citizens Brigade is making it up every night at Woolly Mammoth 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Bowery Haunt,” a rock-inflected electric-guitar duet, and “Anthem Hunt,” a pensive quartet with a prominent cello part, establish Mr. Johnson’s flair as a performer. Scott Johnson, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Dither Go Electric 2010-06-18T15:23:00Z

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

For this one-nighter, the drummer is Bill Stewart, and the featured guest — technically making it a quartet gig — is the tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry. Jazz Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-30T23:59:54Z

Their second emulated the basic outline of the first, two months ago: a quartet from Haydn's Op 71 set was followed by major 20th- and 19th-century works, in this case by Bartók and Smetana. Tak?cs Quartet ? review 2011-01-26T18:51:43Z

Thomas Morley’s “Christes Crosse” is a theoretical piece exploring complex metric shifts, which the quartet executed with admirable clarity. Review | JACK Quartet challenges the listener in ways both old and new 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

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

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

That may be a personal feeling, because its was the first Beethoven quartet playing I heard, and its recordings remain the ones I most often return to. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Colaneri looked at male quartets in Rossini operas but couldn’t find anything suitable. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

Leading a quartet, Mr. DeFrancesco stretches out wide beneath the singer’s blustering swagger, often interceding with riffs and jabs of his own. Van Morrison Would Rather Play Jazz Than Talk About It 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

But just as this quartet is about to come undone by sexual tension, Bess is abducted by Native Americans, scalped and presumed dead. 'Abundance' of plot twists hard to believe in Western wives tale 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

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

Like Satan Dance Party, from San Diego, a shaggy, tattooed quartet playing bawdy drinking songs, and Bramble, from Salt Lake City, whose lofty choruses were as pretty as they were ragged. Young bands breathe new life into acoustic roots music at Northwest Folklife Festival 2010-05-29T03:55:00Z

Cage’s quartet is the product of tightly controlled compositional processes, yet came across as spacious and free in the JACK’s sensitive performance. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Will they all reunite to sing the quartet from “Rigoletto” at the home’s gala concert? ‘Quartet’: The twilight of a diva 2013-01-24T21:56:23Z

The Number Ones, the Dublin pub-rock quartet that opened the show, boasted four lead singers and a set’s worth of engaging if familiar-sounding tunes. Review | Swearin’ is back together, but their songs stay falling apart — in the best ways 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

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

It twisted the band into all kinds of sizes, narrowing it down into a quartet, then a sextet with Mr. Hart and the accordionist Gil Goldstein, before the drums leaked away. Music Review: Maria Schneider Plays Her Career at Birdland 2010-07-23T22:09:00Z

So there's a gap in the market now for a decent homegrown trio or quartet, one either with a distinctive UK voice or one capable of aping the best of the Americans. No 879: Ruff Diamondz 2010-10-04T16:18:00Z

Sudden moments of clarity, when the quartet settles on to open-string fifths, provide a chance for the palette to clear. Hagen Quartet - review 2011-01-31T18:29:41Z

What you don’t hear in these quartets is Ms. Shaw the collaborator who prefers to write for specific artists and occasions. Review: The Uninhibited Joy of Caroline Shaw’s Music 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Despite its ripped from the headlines topic, Ratner and a quartet of writers keep it light. Tower Heist: Occupy the Penthouse 2011-11-03T11:00:38Z

The quartet arrive at Lazaro's empty house, where they begin to bicker and scuffle like schoolboys, to the disdain of their machine gun-toting host. TV highlights 25/06/2013 2013-06-25T06:00:03Z

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 Lang piece, “Revolutionary Etudes,” was written for another quartet but is receiving its first New York performance. Week Ahead: May 30 ? June 5 2010-05-28T15:11:00Z

The program ended with Beethoven’s great penultimate quartet, Opus 132, and the Chiara players, true to their recent practice, performed it from memory with complete assurance. Review: Chiara Quartet Says Farewell on a High Note 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

Despite the Beatles nod, this young quartet from Atlanta takes its influences from the Kinks and the Rolling Stones. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Alabama Shakes, "Boys & Girls": This debut album from the Alabama rock quartet heralds the arrival of a major talent in singer Brittany Howard, but she's not the only star here. AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year 2012-12-13T14:50:11Z

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Ian Pears Set just after the Restoration, when conspiracies were rife, this epistolary novel features a quartet of unreliable narrators giving their versions of the same series of events. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

He continues to forge ahead, as a member of Billy Hart’s reputed quartet and a leader of his own ensembles. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

An Oscar Wilde maxim seems sensible as a starting point for a young theatre company, but York-based quartet Belt Up has chosen an odd one. Bright new things 2011-02-13T00:02:02Z

The mood, as in the two quartets, was clinical, dry, contained. Review: ‘Trisha Brown: In Plain Site,’ on Spring Street 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The three friends from Atlanta arrived just in time to catch the end of a raucous set by Buggin, a Chicago quartet featuring the caustic shout of its nonbinary Black singer, Bryanna Bennett. Hardcore Punk Is Looking (and Sounding) Different Now 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

When the quartet from Liverpool started releasing albums, their fans were mostly teenage girls who were frequently mocked for the hysterical outpouring of enthusiasm that clearly was an uncorking of repressed lust. Against “Sgt. Pepper”: The Beatles classic made pop seem male, nerdy and “important” — and that wasn’t a good thing 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

The first song from the quartet's as-yet untitled forthcoming album, it's certainly not a huge departure. Essential tracks: Joey Badass' 'Teach Me' is catchy and simple 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

“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

At a performance of another quartet he got his musicians to play the whole thing twice over, hoping that the audience might gain a better insight into the music the second time. Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

There is a clear structural argument in favour of Last Post: the first volume of the quartet is set before the war and the middle two during it; so a fourth, postwar volume makes sense. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z

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

The two are joined by Seefeldt and Cooper, in a quartet that devises a whole elastic body language from everyday gestures. Review: Seattle Dance Project's 'Project Four' puts more than 4 on the floor 2011-02-03T20:38:03Z

A beautifully balanced, transparent account of the Haydn, with spirited interplay in the Menuet and a tightly controlled finale, quickly created the sense that the quartet was feeling energized and renewed. Music Review: Juilliard String Quartet, With Violinist Joseph Lin - Review 2011-11-29T22:53:52Z

Asomugha’s character, Robert, part of a jazz quartet, stemmed from the dynamic Ashe had with the members of the ’90s R&B group he was in, Funky Poets. With ‘Sylvie’s Love,’ Eugene Ashe Returns With a Big Hollywood Romance 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

He initially attracted international attention in 1967 with the vibraphonist Gary Burton’s quartet, which some music historians call the first jazz-rock band. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Long a musician of note, she played from elementary school through college and beyond, in quartets and performing chamber music. With sweetness, soul, Aretha and Rice make music 2010-07-27T10:31:00Z

Solos, duets, trios and quartets fluently lead into one another or coincide. Review: The Paris Opera Ballet, Under New Management 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Beach’s warm, thickly chromatic, intensely elegant single-movement quartet — which incorporates, after the model of Dvorak, the Native American melodies “Summer Song,” “Playing at Ball” and “Ititaujang’s Song” — looks both backward and forward. Broadway Meets the Avant-Garde in a Juilliard Music Festival 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

“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

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

What remains so satisfying about this quartet is that its members are trustworthy in any repertoire. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

I heard The Music Band, led by the trumpeter Shane Endsley, an excellent new quartet that will have its first album out next month. ArtsBeat: A Lot of Jazz. Many More People. 2011-01-08T22:14:32Z

The quartet traces the genteel romance between Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane, perfect for Sayers newcomers or faithful followers: "Have His Carcase," "Gaudy Night," "Busman's Honeymoon" and "Strong Poison." Arts-staff favorites include Dorothy L. Sayers, '12 Minutes Max' 2012-10-28T14:31:05Z

Their trenchant analysis of the quartet near the end of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” swiftly and precisely captures that composer’s gifts for definition and juxtaposition of character. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z

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.

Even though the quartet is given in an abridged interpretation — the full quartet runs 100 minutes,  very long indeed  —  “Untitled,” at 75 minutes, is largely uphill going. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz?s ?Untitled (the Blue Ballet)? at the Kitchen 2012-03-10T00:50:47Z

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

In the 1920s, the Hill Billies quartet got its start on the site — then a barbershop — and their sound, which came to be known as hillbilly music, swept the nation. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z

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

Ali Smith’s new novel, “Summer,” is the concluding volume in her immersive, prickly and politically ardent seasonal quartet. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

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

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

But when asked to reunite with them to sing their famous quartet from Rigoletto, she balks. Review: 'Quartet' has a winning, classy charm 2013-01-08T14:37:08Z

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

David Harrington, the quartet’s first violinist, said the group chose it because it contains the “earth mother of all cello solos in the quartet repertory.” Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z

He would be amazed that today his quartets are as essential to the repertory as Beethoven’s. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z

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

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

Better known as a sideman than as a leader, despite some fine work, he now gives us something too strong to underestimate: “All Our Reasons,” the marvelous new album by his quartet. New Music: A New Album From Billy Hart and the Soundtrack to ?Once? 2012-03-26T22:44:04Z

The Emerson quartet played with incisive tanginess, and Ms. Fleming, persuasively inhabiting a cabaret-size space, made her 10 minutes of singing count. Review: Renée Fleming, Up Close, at SubCulture 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, the quartet plays a mix of classical and contemporary selections. Corigliano Quartet presents 2 concerts at Cornish 2010-03-31T21:02:00Z

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

In a performance of Beethoven’s quartet in A minor, Mr Dusinberre explains: “We were taken far out of ourselves, liberated from the confines of individual personalities as we surrendered to the music, a blissful state.” Four into one does go 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The band Garbage, one of the quintessential ’90s outfits, enters its third decade with “Strange Little Birds,” their sixth album, which came out yesterday on the quartet’s own Stunvolume label. Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

To mark the 50th anniversary of the quartet’s founding, Warner Classics recently released its entire catalog in a hefty box set of 62 CDs and eight DVDs. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

He is backed by members of two previous projects, the Healers and Haven, and together the quartet are a superior second-tier band with an especially nimble guitarist. Johnny Marr – review 2013-03-15T17:33:27Z

The quartet explores the balance of exhilaration and anxiety on their excellent "Light Up Gold" album, and then amplifies it. Pitchfork Festival Day 2: 2013-07-20T23:51:00Z

The other members of the quartet were kept on. A Violinist Lost His Seat and His Job. He Blames China. 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

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

Gospel composer and artist Kurt Carr wrote in a social media post about Williams that “a giant of the quartet world has received his wings.” Gospel singer Lee Williams of The Spiritual QC’s dies at 75 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

“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

Another Caesar film is reportedly in the pipeline, based on a quartet of novels on the dictator's early life by British writer Conn Iggulden. And ... cut! Warner Bros to shoot Julius Caesar biopic 2011-07-14T14:18:46Z

The quartet’s overall budget for this year is about $120,000, though “it’s rising rapidly,” Mr. Richards said. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

"Sinister Kid" also benefited from the quartet configuration, with gritty R&B notes speaking with a Southern twang. Black Keys' sonic chess match 2010-12-31T13:48:00Z

“Kids always tell you the truth,” said David Harrington, the quartet’s artistic director. Spare Times for Children for July 26-Aug. 1 2013-07-25T23:01:05Z

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

The members of the quartet were stationed in four corners of the room and performed the music blindly, and from memory. Finding Beauty in Georg Friedrich Haas’s Darkness 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

“It’s not in any way that we’re tired of playing the music or being with each other,” Philip Setzer, 70, a violinist and a founding member of the quartet, said in an interview. Celebrated String Quartet Will Disband, Ending 47-Year Run 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The quartet, which formed in 2010 at the Colburn School of Music, is in residence at Stony Brook University on Long Island. Calidore String Quartet Wins $100,000 M-Prize 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

“We think it’s incidental,” Mr. Paternite said of its calendar of performances that included a brass band and a jazz quartet. Piano Bars and Jazz Clubs Reopened, Calling Live Music ‘Incidental’ 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

This refers less to the quartet's intentionally balanced cultural makeup than their character profiles and the problematic subplot time bombs cured into paving stones placed down the road a ways. HBO Max's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is less erotic and more awkward than its alluring title 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The quartet presents "Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas," polyphonic works created by rebel women in a Spanish convent in a time when such musical activity was forbidden. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z

Tesla was unusual in that its members didn’t have to support themselves by doing other jobs or teaching — although they, like those in other groups, relied on freelance gigs to supplement their quartet income. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Fox and bassist Tyler Dusenbury have recently rejoined Liturgy after a few years away from the band, and now the quartet is touring behind its best and most visceral album, “The Ark Work.” The joy of drumming, with Liturgy’s Greg Fox 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

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

On “Let Pain Be Your Guide,” the newest album from Texas quartet Portrayal of Guilt, the first sounds you hear are dissonant bells that seem ripped from a futuristic orchestra. Perspective | As the world shrivels in front of our eyes, all we can do is scream 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

A secret warm-up gig in the East Village billed as “Bring Your Own Poppers” helped the quartet iron out the kinks beforehand — musically, and muscularly. After 15 Years, the Nashville Punks Be Your Own Pet Are Roaring Back 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

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

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

When guests arrive at the Kennebunkport Captains Collection, a quartet of historical mansions in Maine, the front desk staff will provide several details about the accommodations: on-site parking, the WiFi password and the breakfast hours. Knock, knock. Who’s there? Not housekeeping. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Ending the day with the eighth quartet formed a natural high point — the piece roils with Shostakovich’s name rendered as a melody, as well as with quotations from his own music. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The second half of that performance with my quartet at Tate on 6 November was devoted almost totally to one of the most exquisite treasures of the gallery's Turner collection. How Turner's paintings inspired jazz composer Tim Whitehead's new record 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z

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

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

Your quartet has become so comfortable with each other while preserving an intense feeling of risk. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The ensemble’s rendition of the Borodin quartet enhanced its lyrical and sometimes nostalgic elements without veering into sentimentality. Music Review: Moscow String Quartet at Frick Collection - Review 2011-10-04T20:14:39Z

It plans to play the Brahms quartets by heart, among other works. Met Museum to Expand Its Musical Offerings With New Breuer Space 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The musical makes the trio a quartet by including Queen Elizabeth, who worked so hard, by all accounts, to keep the couple together, for the sake of kingdom and family. Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Clive Barnes of The New York Times praised it as a “sprightly quartet of revue-style playlets,” written with “compassion, insight and irony.” Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn, who died six months later, channeled his grief into this turbulent quartet, whose character, according to the composer and pianist Ignaz Moscheles, seemed “consistent with his deeply disturbed frame of mind.” Music Review: Quatuor Ébène Plays Schumann and Errol Garner 2014-02-23T21:46:20Z

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

Wednesday at a sold-out 9:30 Club, the Arizona pop-punk quartet dealt capably with that album’s preeminence. Two decades in, Jimmy Eat World is still all business 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

It tosses 16 of the formerly famous or famous-to-a-specific-demographic into a desert, where quartet of ex-special forces operators push them through brutal physical challenges and subject them to relentless verbal abuse. "Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test": Where "Battle of the Network Stars" meets a redemption tour 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

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

What often happens in such circumstances is that the existing members of a quartet draw new inspiration from the advent of new — and younger — blood. Emerson, 'Four Quarters' a beguiling start to UW season 2012-10-03T16:55:04Z

The quartet, he wrote, “would beat the unclean air until it begged for mercy.” Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

"The biggest thing is ... just being able to tell everybody, and seeing what happens," Ewan Currie, lead singer of the quartet from Saskatoon, said in an interview last week with The Associated Press. The Sheepdogs win Rolling Stone cover contest 2011-08-01T19:27:49Z

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

Genuinely odd in its mixture of bluntness and indirection, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan's study in biblical temptation is saved from its own heavy-handedness by a fine quartet of actors. 'Stone': A vexing web of encounters between a fine quartet of actors 2010-10-14T20:39:00Z

This “Messiah” offered as rewarding a quartet of soloists as you are likely to hear this holiday season. Review: ‘Messiah’ Brings the New York Philharmonic to Church 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The Orlando Consort is a quartet of men, while the chansonnier contains almost entirely pieces for three voices. Review | Orlando Consort shares stage with a tiny Renaissance book at the Library of Congress 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

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

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

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

He knew Suárez-Cohen’s writing and particularly admired the quartet of scripts about the trafficking ring. Music and poetry leaven a heavy subject 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sliwinski and the other members of So Percussion opened the program with Mr. Trueman’s “120bpm” for percussion quartet and laptop, the second section of a work called “Neither Anvil nor Pulley.” Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The music could be ferociously violent or deeply sensitive, expanding the vocabulary of the rock quartet to include Eastern, European, classical and experimental impulses. Lou Reed, legendary rock pioneer, dead at 71 2013-10-27T22:51:00Z

But this applies to all of the central quartet, who so effectively take advantage of the movie’s many opportunities to shine. ‘Joy Ride’ Review: A Raunch-Com Roller Coaster 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

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

A repertoire staple, this quartet is jampacked with expressive possibilities. Review: Despite being interrupted by cellphones — twice! — Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival kicked off its second half with a remarkable concert 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

It was recorded after the exit of Pete Best and Ringo Starr’s entrance to the quartet. Andy White, Drums for The Beatles' 'Love Me Do,' Dies at 85 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

An Ebullient Mozart Sets Up a Ferocious Beethoven There is no easier sell in classical music than the late quartets of Mozart and Beethoven. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-22T20:42:33Z

The earliest work here, dating to 1988 and painted on a rare oval canvas, just barely depicts a quartet of trees as thick, dark splotches of green. Maureen Gallace’s Restrained Palette of House, Sea, Sky 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Da Càsola is joined by the orchestra's woodwind section leaders for the E flat Sinfonia Concertante, in which the playing of the central quartet sounds at times more like a competition than a game. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Sinfonia Concertante in E flat; Symphony No 31 'Paris' 2010-07-08T21:39:00Z

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

Mr. Labadie used the traditional quartet of soloists, who shared an intensely dramatic, often operatic approach to their texts. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z

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

A quartet of teenage girls was onstage at the Knitting Factory, the Brooklyn club. Music: A Feminist Riot That Still Inspires 2011-06-03T17:48:59Z

The Jerusalem Quartet excels in 20th-century repertoire, including its fine partial traversal of the Shostakovich quartets. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

It was a quartet of photos: one of her smiling and holding a microphone, and three of her limbs, covered in bruises. Beth Stelling doesn’t need your Internet justice 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

The quartet also has received 24 gold singles awards, 10 platinum and four multiplatinum certifications. 'Glee' charts more Billboard Hot 100 songs than the Beatles 2010-10-08T21:11:00Z

He struggled for years in clubs and on radio in Ireland and Britain, and became part of a singing quartet called the Four Ramblers. Val Doonican, Irish singer who starred on British TV, dies at 88 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The quartet, which began as a student group at the Juilliard School before turning professional in 1976, is one of best-known in the world. Celebrated String Quartet Will Disband, Ending 47-Year Run 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The children and the quartet, as a small chamber orchestra, play a lilting performance of "Autumn", 13 Stations of the Cross as backdrop. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

You don’t encounter any music written before the 20th century — two Mozart quartets — until Disc 13. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

In the Navarra String Quartet's recital, the third quartet by Lithuanian composer Vytautas Bacevicius proved disappointing, while David Matthews's tenth quartet, with its Australian dawn chorus, took on an aura of musical sanctuary. Presteigne festival ? review 2011-08-29T17:10:00Z

But you wonder if the next two novels will recount Selin’s junior and senior years, in a Harvard quartet, and what would happen if Batuman kicked away from shore. In Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or,’ a Witty and Perceptive Young Woman Returns 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

British girl group quartet Little Mix, formed in 2011 on the UK's "The X Factor" TV talent show, saw their debut album "DNA" notch No. 4 this week, after selling 49,000 copies. Daft Punk holds off Alice in Chains, Fogerty for Billboard No. 1 2013-06-05T19:13:31Z

Mr. Zorn’s “Game Pieces” will be performed by Dither, an electric guitar quartet. As Usual, Unusual Offerings From the Kitchen 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

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

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

Much like Captain Kidd and Johanna, the quartet moves from place to place, navigating saloons, dance halls, public houses and other places trying to string together a meager wage. Paulette Jiles’s New Novel Goes Deep in the Heart of Texas 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

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

At weddings, where a quartet might find an honest day’s work, setting the mood became a DJ’s duty. At 85, a D.C. jazzman is still boppin’ 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Prism III” is the third installment in what this quartet describes as a beam of music through a prism, tracing connections across centuries by juxtaposing Bach fugues, late Beethoven and works of the 20th century. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

In the immediate future the Emerson plans to revisit and perform the complete Beethoven quartets. Emerson String Quartet Adapts to a Different Cellist 2014-04-11T21:23:13Z

On an outdoor terrace, a quartet of women sipped wine, clearly relishing their time away from their dependents. After the October wildfires, California Wine Country is ready to pop some corks 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

In addition to Milk Ghost, she drummed in Period Blood, a short-lived, “super-angry” quartet in the tradition of Bikini Kill whose name was suggested by her brother. Frankie Cosmos’s Small World Gets Bigger 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Throughout, the superbly eloquent eyebrows of Claire Keelan as Em function as Greek chorus, telling us the quartet are fate's playthings. TV review: The Last Weekend; The Function Room; I'm Spazticus 2012-08-19T22:15:01Z

In "Brad's Bag," the quartet picked up the tempo but still emphasized substance over flash, inventiveness of motif over mere speed and excitement. The fresh sound of guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel 2011-03-04T14:34:10Z

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

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

We push on lighting through the second half of Bach: three trios, two quartets, first circle, second death, echo, triple canon, frog, fugue, football, yoga, stroll, finale, last circle. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

“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

A din of loneliness haunts writer-director Taylor's quartet of characters as they meander through actual and abstract spaces, simultaneously seeking and fleeing from definition in a compartmentalized modern world. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z

So as the van drove off carrying only half of the quartet, Mikhail remained in the musicians’ suite with his cello and music. From Russia to Pittsburgh with classical music 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

He likes to use uneven numbers of dancers to create unpredictable combinations; solos emerge from quartets, duos combine to make quartets and sextets, then dissolve into a trio or quintet. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

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

The quartet recorded 50-plus songs, which they plan to spread across multiple releases, with the first planned for later this year. One Surreal Night With the Rap Veterans of Mount Westmore 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

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

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

“You just didn’t try to do that with a folk-based quartet. Everybody was more poppy, and had the long hair and the electric instruments.” Judith Durham, Singer of ‘Georgy Girl’ and Other Hits, Dies at 79 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

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

The quartet teetered between genius and idiocy each night, their anarchic spirit buzzing around some of the best rock songs of the last 30 years. Replacements reunion: Genius or folly? 2013-07-12T18:03:00Z

Halfway through, the Flux quartet enters to play, in vigorous fashion, Annie Gosfield’s slicing and squealing compositions for strings and machine sounds. Dance Review: ‘The Spectators’ at New York Live Arts 2013-05-16T20:28:13Z

There he became a member of the Corps Four, a quartet of Marines that performed jazz on television and radio to aid in recruitment. Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

In this essay, too, he writes in veneration of Coltrane’s classic quartet, only to assert that, in Coltrane’s later performances, “there is little beauty but much that is terrible.” Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

A Blend of New Pieces and Old Suits a Sextet String quartets are the glamour ensembles in the chamber music world, but sextets are actually more natural. Music Review: At Merkin Concert Hall, Concertante Blends New and Old 2010-05-18T21:26:00Z

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

The jazz quartet occupied one side of the stage, and the Knights, a New York chamber orchestra, took up the other, with Dan Coleman at the conductor’s podium. Music Review: Joshua Redman at Town Hall 2013-06-06T21:53:18Z

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

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

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

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

The alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and his quartet make bristling, physical music, both leaning into and pulling against the swing rhythm that has historically been the backbone of jazz. On ‘The 7th Hand,’ Immanuel Wilkins Sees Jazz as an Escape Pod 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

With Greenland at the National Theatre written by a quartet of writers, the idea of collaborative work continues to flourish. This week's new theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z

A post-punk band that preferred neatly pressed suits to thrift store finery, the quartet brought gloomy pallor to the music of this time, courtesy of their landmark full-length debut, 2002's "Turn On The Bright Lights." The secret to Interpol’s ongoing success 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

At the core of Mr. Mitchell’s quartet is the rhythm section, which has worked as a trio, with Mr. Tordini providing a center of gravity and Mr. Weiss creating a shifting momentum. Matt Mitchell’s Jazz Gallery Concert Showcased New Material 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

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

The quartet’s muscular playing, almost too exciting, brought out the taut energy of Mr. Tynek’s dance, a fantasy about sailors, their wives and the pitiless ocean. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance - Review 2011-11-04T22:32:48Z

Roman will perform with the quartet on Schubert's String Quintet in C Major. Corinne Bailey Rae, reopening of Elliott Bay Book Co. are Seattle A&E highlights 2010-04-07T23:55:00Z

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

Founded in 1948, the group is widely described as the longest continuously performing vocal quartet of its kind in the United States. Bob Flanigan, Four Freshmen Founder, Dies at 84 2011-05-17T04:00:08Z

The concert, at the Rose Studio, comprised Bartok’s first, third and fifth quartets, works that need feline flexibility of expression. Review: Jerusalem Quartet Starts a Weeklong Marathon 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Can such an unlikely quartet find an audience and some space on the dial before running out of patience and cash? Review | In David Mitchell’s splendid ‘Utopia Avenue,’ a ’60s rock band finds its groove 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Lieberman addresses questions of musical purity by explaining that expanded arrangements only explore sonic possibilities of the quartet form. American String Project thinks big at Benaroya Hall 2010-05-12T22:57:00Z

But with the Calders as the lead in front and the other two quartets arrayed behind them, the audience got to watch really competent players sweat the metric torture without breaking. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Here, in a sprawling and rapturous concert during Coltrane's divisive late period, he set aside his "classic quartet" for fiery and expressive free playing, setting a new course for avant-garde jazz. Coltrane's live 'Offering' shakes the room 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The program included two distinctive quartets that record for Innova: Zeitgeist, a mixed group from the Twin Cities, and the Prism Quartet, a saxophone ensemble based in New York and Philadelphia. Music Review: Subtleties No Recording Could Catch 2011-06-01T22:20:06Z

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

This is the kind of complex quartet Mozart would later master. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

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

String quartets shared billing with Lieder and chamber symphonies. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

Its quartet of undead housemates must wrestle with not only the logistics of bloodsucking but the general annoyance of roommates, and that incongruity gives the show its juice. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

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

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

When Kronos went through a series of tragedies in the '90s, three members of the group losing children or a partner, Riley wrote profound quartet music in remembrance. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

He went to Paris in 1912 to study with Lucien Capet, a famed quartet violinist, but returned home to his family days before Germany invaded Belgium. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

There’s still room in jazz for an acoustic quartet playing thorough, pensive, slowly mounting music. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

That's the case with Alabama Shakes, a quartet whose first album, "Boys & Girls," is a quirky but undeniably stirring achievement in electric blues and soul. New CDs from Bonnie, Bakelite, Alabama Shakes | New CDs 2012-04-09T21:32:09Z

And they were back there this month for a series of six concerts, again presented by the society, devoted to all 16 of Beethoven’s quartets performed in chronological order. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

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

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

UK improv and new-music specialists Babel are currently releasing a varied batch of releases, with drummer Stephen Davis's quartet Human leading the charge. Human: Being Human – review 2013-05-30T22:15:01Z

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

He sometimes likes to throw his clean articulation into contrast with rougher musical surroundings; on “Little Big,” an album due this fall, he’s working with a saw-toothed, electrified quartet, and benefiting from the friction. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

It set a faster pace than materialised in the broad tempo of the rest of the performance, with the great Act I quartet deliberately unhurried. Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne festival; BBC Prom 44 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

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

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

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

He made a decent argument as well for Stravinsky’s Suite No. 2, a quartet of dances as droll as it is brief. Review: Christian Tetzlaff Sharpens Mendelssohn’s Edge 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

The quartet in the film are meant to have been playing together for 25 years. A violinist's view on A Late Quartet 2013-04-16T05:00:01Z

By beginning its contemporary program with Machaut, the quartet was claiming him as a pioneering ancestor. Music Review | JACK Quartet: At Ease in T-Shirts or Suits, and With the Medieval or Modern 2010-03-04T21:59:00Z

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

Part of the richness of “Halt” came from how it developed a quartet of central characters, each of whom has a distinct dynamic with each of the others. How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

Still, you usually encounter these composers’ quartets sprinkled in with more standard fare. Music Review: Takacs Quartet Plays Britten and Janacek at Zankel Hall 2012-04-15T18:18:42Z

Despite solid showings from a quartet of films with Oscar ambitions, total revenue was down about 25% from the same weekend last year. Box Office: Green Hornet Buzzes Over a Dilapidated Dilemma 2011-01-16T14:25:00Z

The ensemble, a young, thoroughly drilled male vocal quartet founded in 2006, split its program between sacred and profane views of love. Music Review: New York Polyphony at American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012-02-17T22:15:25Z

At a Friday night concert, the Library of Congress, not surprisingly, featured them in quartets by Bohuslav Martinu and Antonin Dvorak. Music of Czechs, by Czechs but for everyone at the Library of Congress 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The piano plays an angular melody as the quartet offers a wistful tonal accompaniment, as if regretting the decline of harmony. Review: Despite being interrupted by cellphones — twice! — Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival kicked off its second half with a remarkable concert 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

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

An attentive and responsive quartet of experts in the genre. Van Hove/Dunmall/Rogers/Lytton: Asynchronous 2010-04-08T21:25:00Z

Which, to the major labels, made a quartet of young, real-deal Texans, alternatively good-looking and goofy, seem like potentially bankable next big things. Texas Monthly: The Old 97’s Will Tour for ‘Too Far to Care’ Anniversary 2012-08-05T02:19:38Z

The quartet members took their seats inside the copters, lifted their instruments, and began to play. ‘Licht’ Unleashes a Helicopter String Quartet 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, Paul Pinto’s “The Approach” — a multimedia, dramatic work written for the treble-voice quartet Quince Ensemble — was unveiled at Merkin Hall. Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

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

He is scheduled to tour with his quartet this fall, playing Sept. Ravi Coltrane Signs With Blue Note 2010-08-04T22:34:00Z

The personnel change adds a new wrinkle to the quartet’s name. Two JACK Quartet Founders to Depart 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Rather than straining for reinvention or an updated sound, the quartet aims to hone strengths: High-octane melodies delivered with a minimum of fuss or filler. Album review: Redd Kross, 'Researching the Blues' 2012-08-07T04:24:00Z

Summoning a quartet of great Verdi singers — soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone — isn’t easy, but there’s no reason a major opera house should go 0 for 4. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Meditative but headlong, this piece had been the quartet’s concert centerpiece for two years at that point, but Coltrane still hadn’t given it a name. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The quartet, the resident ensemble at the Eastman School of Music, then played the original third movement. Music Review | Ying Quartet: Barber?s Centenary Celebrated at Morgan Library & Museum 2010-03-11T05:24:00Z

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

Schubert's three later quartets are certainly core repertoire, but many of the 12 quartets he penned before the age of 18 are rare birds in the concert hall. Cuarteto Casals – review 2012-10-11T16:44:30Z

I'm sure there are quartets where the second violinist harbours simmering resentment – though really, our positions are equally important. A violinist's view on A Late Quartet 2013-04-16T05:00:01Z

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

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

Talking is about all the quartet of fractious, sun-baked men in “Penelope” have to do anymore. Theater Review: In Far Over Their Heads: Life at the Pool?s Bottom 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z

But the preparation that goes into memorizing an entire quartet is first of all a left-brain intellectual exercise in which “you are forced to get into the mind of the composer,” Ms. Yoon said. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

The Berg recorded Beethoven’s 16 quartets and the Grosse Fuge twice, and while both cycles have their virtues, my preference is for the earlier one, from the late 1970s and early ’80s. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

But don't make the mistake of comparing to a certain quartet from Liverpool. 'We're not the new Beatles' 2013-06-15T10:53:14Z

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

Five years ago, two punk rock albums arrived that fans and critics alike considered earthshaking: “Celebration Rock” by the Canadian duo Japandroids and “On the Impossible Past” by the Pennsylvania quartet the Menzingers. Punk Rock Is Alive and Well, No Politics Required 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

These are cheerful one-movement quartets for two violins, cello and organ, originally written to be performed during a church service and, for obvious reasons of instrumentation, seldom performed today. Review | A well-hidden Bach festival offers cheerful relief on a summer afternoon 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

This year’s new balloons include a quartet of elves from “The Christmas Chronicles,” a new Netflix special which, improbably and yet inevitably, stars Kurt Russell as Santa Claus. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Adapts to the Eye of the Times 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

According to Andrew Bulbrook, a violinist in the Calder Quartet, which is performing these works at the festival, Bartók's quartets represent the most enduring quartet cycle of the 20th century. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The London-based quartet also featured on the Band Aid 30 single. Clean Bandit on making own videos 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The subterranean hum of a synthesizer and a slow, menacing clip-clop rhythm announce the return of this Scottish quartet. Album review: Sons and Daughters, 'Mirror Mirror' 2011-07-11T04:18:00Z

Eventually, however, the sheer formality of “Septet,” especially its last quartet and sextet, showed that this was a very different work. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z

At the same time, what are you expecting of your listeners when you play this quartet? Exploring a Cathartic Moment in a Lengthy String Quartet 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

But then, what if the quartet also dances? Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

After a raucous quartet of rock and roll songs, Tedeschi Trucks slowed down to perform their beautiful and melancholic ballad from 2013, “It’s So Heavy.” The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

It was also the group’s first New York performance since it was announced in February that David Finckel, its cellist, would leave the quartet after next season to devote more time to other projects. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-22T20:42:33Z

It says everything about Tony Bennett that his Metropolitan Opera concert on Sunday evening was an intimate, no-frills affair: a great popular singer and his quartet casually doing what they do better than anybody else. Music Review: Tony Bennett at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-09-19T22:54:03Z

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

U.K. quartet Mumford & Sons emerged from London a few years ago with banjos  blazing. Album review: Mumford & Sons, 'Babel' 2012-09-28T00:26:00Z

The doc's hour-and-a-half first episode chronicles the Beatle years, when the world fell in love not just with the Fab Four's music but also with this quartet of distinct personalities. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-05T14:20:00Z

Ruders’s occasional adaptations of traditional operatic forms don’t always work: a quartet intoned by the members of the commander’s troubled household hardly makes an impression. Revisiting “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the Opera 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Shostakovich demands that full range in his quartets. Music Review: Shostakovich Quartets as an Intimate Diary 2010-10-26T20:09:00Z

Schubert's first quartets, dating from his early teens, were written for domestic pleasure. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

A tedious federal minister, a terminally vain titan of Ruhr industry, a Hohenzollern pretender and a quartet of free-loading parliamentarians have finally called for their limousines. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z

The album features a string orchestra alongside his quartet, which appears without reinforcements here, consisting only of Mr. Wind, the saxophonist Scott Robinson, the pianist Bill Mays and the drummer Joe La Barbera. Jazz Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

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

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

It’s modeled along the lines of America’s best-known Chopin ballet, Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering,” with solos, duets and quartets that show camaraderie, rivalry, fun and moodiness. Review: Three Ballets at City Center Honor Two Impresarios 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

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

She does not specify how the altercation between her quartet of dogs and the mauled cat occurred. Martha Stewart’s dogs maul and kill her cat after mistaking the pet ‘for an interloper’ 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

After the 1980s, he was less active as a composer, although he occasionally performed with his quartet and recorded more library music as a soloist. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z

The quartet shuffles through jazz and synth-prog-rock and what sound like sweeping video game scores. Three emo bands fight the alienation of the online world by rocking out IRL 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

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

“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

By the end of the novel, the first of a quartet, there are still more questions than answers, but you’re happily along for the ride. The Season’s Standout Crossover Y.A. Novels 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

When no club owners would book the young band, the quartet took matters into its own hands and played shows in the desert for friends, powering amps and microphones with petrol-fueled generators. Kyuss Lives re-emerges from desert 2011-12-01T15:49:25Z

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 central quartet of actors are engaging and colorful, though among the leading men there is a slight sense of slumming. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

The spaciousness of the works drew attention to the superb playing of the quartet and especially to its sound, which glows even with the most minimal use of vibrato. Music Review: JACK Quartet at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-12-19T22:09:52Z

Conducted by David Bloom, the quartet nimbly negotiated the score’s fluid transitions from gritty waltzes to punk-rock explosions, from rococo ornaments to dissonant chords. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

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

He’s back for more with the quartet that launched the “jam band” movement, but that is probably more accurately described as dedicated to grooving than jamming. Go Phish | Concert preview 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The night solidified around “Emmett Till: Defiant, Fearless,” a 20-minute suite alternately using the jazz quartet, the strings and all the musicians together. Music Review: ‘Ten Freedom Summers,’ by Wadada Leo Smith 2013-05-03T05:55:12Z

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

I very much feel I am part of the quartet of musician-movers around me. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Coltrane kicked his habit and joined Thelonious Monk’s quartet; that band had an instantly famous six-month run at the Five Spot, and Coltrane’s playing, under Monk’s influence, rapidly rose to heroic stature. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Written for the Crossing and the saxophone quartet Prism, “The Fifth Century” offers seven settings of poems by the seventeenth-century English clergyman and mystic Thomas Traherne. Pushing Things Forward in Choral Music 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

At the peak of its popularity, the quartet ruled the charts with breathtaking singles that still sound essential 40 years later. Throwbacks: Reissues by ABBA, Bedhead, JB's, Kinks, Paramount, more 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

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

She celebrates the album’s release with her regular quartet, featuring the saxophonist Steve Wilson, the bassist Michael O’Brien and the drummer Matt Wilson. Jazz Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

On its Night Creeper tour, the band, a quartet from Cambridge, England, will riff on haunted songs that just might rouse some headbanging from the cross-armed nighthawks of Brooklyn. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Live, their core songwriting quartet is bolstered by a drummer, a roaming trumpeter and three singers. Rudimental – review 2013-04-24T16:34:00Z

The reformed quartet continues to showcase the distinctive Gaelic lilt of vocalist Dolores O’Riordan over chiming guitars, silken strings, and military rhythms. The Cranberries' Roses Picks Up Where the Band Left Off 2012-02-21T19:37:06Z

Everyone in the quartet gets a piece, and the orchestrations are wild. Listening Booth: Impulse! Records 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

In March, Fodor’s released its first quartet of cities and added four more over the summer, including New Orleans. The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Each has some sort of affliction—one is handicapped, another gambling-addicted and so on—but as a quartet, they make up something like a complete, functional being. Dead Tree Alert: The Beautiful Losers of Luck 2012-01-27T17:38:48Z

It’s made not only for violence but also for exploration, and it will be enjoyed most when played with friends as a cooperative quartet, working to slay bad guy after bad guy. NBA 2K13 2012-10-09T21:52:22Z

This may be a pop-up concert, free and with drinks on tap, but this superb quartet is not holding back with the music. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Being African-American, however, this quartet put the accent on its own roots. The Carolina Chocolate Drops: A sweet treat, indeed 2011-08-18T15:59:04Z

“Do you think I should make it a quartet?” she asked conspiratorially.‌ With a Doppelgänger Novel, Deborah Levy Embodies Strangeness 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

And as expected, our favorite quartet have their fair share of messes to mend in the show's second season. "Sex Lives" stars on how their characters are "more powerful" in their sexuality this year 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

The set includes a batch of the most rip-roaring recordings Monk ever made: live at the Five Spot with a quartet featuring the bluff, virtuosic tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin and Haynes on drums. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The third floor, more troubling, has at its core his recent “Birkenau” quartet, from 2014, whose abstract drags and stutters obscure imagery of the Holocaust, and which have never been shown before in North America. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

He started expanding the classic quartet that had recorded the album until the group reached a breaking point. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

I am speaking, of course, of the Australian Open, the tennis tournament that kicks off the Grand Slam quartet. At the Australian Open, Setting a Different Kind of Fashion Trend 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

They are embodied by Maqoma — who has said this is his final production as a performer — and an outstanding quartet of South African vocalists. Review: An African Choir’s Disillusioning Journey to the West 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

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

In general, there’s less reliance on the electronic layering that characterized the quartet’s early albums and more on straight-up rock-combo performance. Album review: Garbage, 'Not Your Kind of People' 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

He first showed promise as a schoolboy soloist in the church choir and then as a harmonizer in barbershop quartets. If you could read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind, this is the tale his thoughts could tell 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

“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

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

The Inbetweeners, the acclaimed UK sitcom about a quartet of teenaged losers, is set to graduate to the big screen with a feature-length spin-off due in cinemas this summer. The Inbetweeners get set for big-screen summer outing 2011-02-07T16:32:37Z

On offer are full productions of a quartet of plays from Pinter's long career. ACT Theatre celebrates Pinter with monthlong festival 2012-07-19T20:12:10Z

Still, there was not a sense of directness or intimacy like that achieved by Tenet in its peregrinations, and Trinity’s two quartets, widely separated, lacked a comparable unity and force. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

It was the highest Billboard 200 ranking for the British rock quartet in some 16 years, when its greatest hits album "1" spent several weeks at or near the top of the chart, Billboard said. Beatles back on Billboard with 'Sgt. Pepper' 50th anniversary release 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

The quartet sound like a chorus of cats and the 1930s pastiche exposes Double Fantasy's conflicting styles and confused heart. Double Fantasy Live – review 2013-06-24T17:06:31Z

Later in the month this outstanding young foursome has a very fine recording of the Schumann quartets coming out on the Azica label, and there’s Schumann in this concert, too, albeit the Piano Quintet. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

The example in the Newark Museum took a quartet of monks, working long hours, four days to complete. Art Review: A Glow From Within and on the Surface 2011-05-12T16:07:05Z

“And that element of the quartets never goes away. All the way through the late quartets, you still feel like afterward you’d go out and have a beer with him.” For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

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

The British novelist David Peace’s “Red Riding” quartet, which was turned into three films, followed the hunt for a serial killer in Yorkshire. A Selfless Man: David Peace Talks About Bill Shankly and 'Red or Dead' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The medley was preceded by three obscure but substantial theater songs composed by Todd Almond, the pianist who led her quartet. Music Review: Laura Benanti Sings Cabaret at 54 Below 2013-05-21T21:17:43Z

Certainly when it followed Korngold's rambling first quartet, which the Doric played with more discrimination than it deserves, Blake Dreaming seemed a model of economy and good judgment. Williams/Doric Quartet 2010-05-03T20:45:00Z

The most conventional playing comes in “Pantagruel,” a jazzy tangle composed by Joshua Lopes, a quartet member. Scott Johnson, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Dither Go Electric 2010-06-18T15:23:00Z

They're a passionate quartet, with a "little dragon" temper in each of them, according to Nagano. Little Dragon ready to roar at Seattle's Nectar Lounge 2010-04-07T23:04:00Z

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

The eight-bar phrase from Opus 110 that Adams obsesses over in the first of the quartet's two movements has a cloud-like floating quality, which was exploited for its ambiguity. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The New Zealand quartet the Beths just released their second album, the lush, melodic “Jump Rope Gazers.” Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Then in early August, So Percussion, a quartet of brilliant percussionists, joined the orchestra for the premiere of a new arrangement of David Lang’s “man made,” a percussion concerto. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Dwight Garner called the finale of Smith’s seasonal quartet “a prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke and seizing the moment.” New in Paperback: ‘Summer’ and ‘The Dragons, the Giant, the Women’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

And of course, there was that infamous Soundgarden reunion in 2010, when the quartet performed together for the first time in 13 years. Kim Thayil talks Soundgarden’s future, playing with rebooted MC5 — his ‘favorite band ever’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

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

Indeed, in the postscript he notes that while the book stands on its own, “it can also be seen as the fourth in a quartet of books about the limits of vision.” Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot' 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

The current enormous success of major trilogies, quartets or even longer series indicates that a large number of readers really like revisiting a favourite set of characters, place or storyline. Book trilogies and series – what's the point? 2013-07-01T10:08:15Z

This quartet formed in response to the 2012 music ban in their native Mali and have since released two albums of blues rock that make the genre’s African roots impossible to ignore. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

For so much of this episode, the connective tissue between this quartet remains hidden, as if writer Nic Pizzolatto is happy just to wallow in the murk and misery of their circumstances. True Detective: season two, episode one recap – The Western Book of the Dead 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Southampton University researcher Andrew Woolley uncovered the work – part of a missing quartet of concertos. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered 2010-10-07T09:26:00Z

Those arrangements were the heart of the quartet’s program at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at on Wednesday evening. Music Review: Unplugging the Hendrix Experience 2011-03-03T21:18:08Z

And people who fund artists often host them, too: I once heard a quartet by Andrew Norman in the Dumbo loft of new-music patrons. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The “four seasons” quartet started as a completely private project, apparently unintended for publication. Knausgaard’s Seasonal Book Series Continues With a Wintry Mix 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The quartet’s relationship to the studio, however, was something different. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

But the final two acts went more smoothly and the music gained steadily in dramatic tension through the glorious Act 4 quartet up to the shattering conclusion. Simon Keenlyside scores as Verdi's jester 2010-06-26T11:06:00Z

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

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

In the first act, a tightly massed male quartet, singing about the dark fate of the Duke of Buckingham, leads to one of the opera’s many thrilling choruses. Music Review: Leon Botstein Conducts ‘Henry VIII’ at Bard Festival 2012-08-20T21:49:34Z

Throughout Impulse, a female string quartet actively joins in the business of movement. Leigh Warren – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-26T17:15:00Z

Joined by the bluegrass singer and multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky, the quartet performed songs, hymns and fiddle tunes from its new CD “1865,” weaving them into a memorial wreath that was fresh, humble and deeply poignant. Review: Civil War Songs of Memory and Loss, at Cooper Union 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

For an encore, the quartet offered the rapturously applauding audience a short piece for quartet, “Improvisation,” which Weinberg wrote during a long period when he produced no full-scale quartets, between 1946 and 1957. Review | One of the greatest music events in Washington this year is happening at the Phillips 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Like many premieres originally planned for the past year, Bryan’s Requiem, written for the vocal quartet Quince Ensemble and members of the Chicago Symphony, was stranded in limbo. A Requiem, Derailed by the Pandemic, Arrives When It’s Needed Most 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

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

Although the band did little press and, exhausted from nearly a decade of touring, chose not to promote the record on the road, “Out of Time” catapulted the quartet from Athens, Ga., to superstardom. After a Trip Back in Time, Michael Stipe Is Ready to Return to Music 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

This bittersweet quartet, written in 1919, balances a melancholy mood with Romantic steaminess and, in the finale, a folksy spiritedness, but Kreisler ties those elements together thoughtfully and, for the most part, satisfyingly. Music Review: ?Quartet Variations? at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-15T21:53:02Z

But while the quartet colored beautifully within the lines, its interpretation was a little self-effacing in its reticence to shape expressive lines and lean into Mozart’s dissonances and agitated rhythms. Dover Quartet boasts young stars in the making 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Shepherd was particularly fascinated, he writes, by the way the oboe in Mozart’s quartet, with its “chameleonic role,” becomes a conciliatory presence. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

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

The quartet unspools its finely woven, vigilant group sound into something wide open, achieving a kind of escape. On ‘The 7th Hand,’ Immanuel Wilkins Sees Jazz as an Escape Pod 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

He continued for years to oversee his own jazz combos, including a quartet in the mid-1950s whose phenomenal rhythm section included bassist Walter Page, guitarist Freddie Green and drummer Jo Jones. Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Pelt, leading a quartet anchored by Mr. Carter, sounds undistracted by legacy or history. Review: Jeremy Pelt’s ‘#Jiveculture,’ Exuding Chemistry 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

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

Members of Ensemble Pi performed it and Mr. Schuller’s “On Light Wings,” for piano quartet, dominated in sections by lively syncopated rhythms. Music Review: Eight Hours of Songs, and Uncounted Influences 2011-02-22T22:18:37Z

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

The quartet’s 2000 recording of the complete Shostakovich quartets is responsible for two of the Grammys on Mr. Drucker’s shelf; it won in the categories of best chamber and best classical recording. Emerson String Quartet Adapts to a Different Cellist 2014-04-11T21:23:13Z

The quartet performed an encore, a Danish song of spring, Mr. Sorensen announced, arranged almost like a chorale and played with uncannily blended and tender sound. Music Review: Danish String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2014-02-10T22:22:33Z

Mr. Ross lets that ethic inform how he guides each of his bands — not just Good Vibes, but also his quartet and the eight-piece Parables, which he sees as his next major creative focus. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

But it was not until its propulsive, rhythmically and texturally fluid performance of the Debussy that you could see how technically polished and interpretively insightful this quartet is. Music Review: A String Quartet?s Nod to Debussy at Angel Orensanz Foundation 2010-03-16T21:59:00Z

And who knows, maybe the quartet prefers to present its music as a mulch of overdriven instruments? Pitchfork day 3: Off to a mellow start 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

The central quartet grotesquely objectifies women, treating them solely as targets of fantasy and desire—which may be the mark of bad people but isn’t the mark of a bad movie. The Silent Women of “Entourage” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Here, over the course of several years, I worked up the courage to compose “Strange and Sacred Noise,” a brutally elemental cycle of percussion quartets. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

A hungry quartet, a gig at the end of a tour. Redrawing Rhythmic Strategies 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

The enduring success of these six string quartets suggests that we do. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z

But in the late ’60s, after his classic quartet disbanded, his work shifted, turning more toward classical forms and social issues. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

At other times, the quartet created a gentle drone that underpinned the elegiac intertwining of the polyphonic vocal lines. Review: Hints of Eternity at Trinity Wall Street 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Yola, who has faced additional challenges trying to break into country music as a black woman, said that when she worked with the quartet, “I didn’t feel like a token.” Country Music Is a Man’s World. The Highwomen Want to Change That. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Performed for the first time, it involved his quartet, a 12-piece big band and video backdrop; it was commissioned by Peak Performances, Montclair State’s performing arts series. Music Review: The Saxophonist Miguel Zen?n at Montclair State 2012-02-07T23:33:32Z

The Danish String Quartet plans to play all of Beethoven’s quartets in concert this month. 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

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

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

And the quartet of young lovers here are close cousins to those found in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Two Gentlemen of Verona – review 2013-04-22T17:08:19Z

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

This is the opening week of Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and it has begun with the mini-festival Kronos at 40, a celebration of the quartet’s 40th anniversary. Spare Times for Children for July 26-Aug. 1 2013-07-25T23:01:05Z

“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

Anyone encountering Peace's debut album after reading the blog buzz that led the Birmingham quartet to a major-label deal and their current hotly tipped status might be forgiven for feeling a little nonplussed. Peace: In Love – review 2013-03-21T15:29:01Z

That's a quartet of films and performances any actor could be proud of. Hitchcock's Dark Dreamboat: Farley Granger (1925-2011) 2011-03-30T16:55:00Z

Small musical ensembles — a quartet, an a cappella chorus — are inextricably bound up with their members, and as they age, they will either change members or shut down. King’s Singers offer their polished template in Georgetown 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Jacobsen says moments when the quartet shares high inspiration are remarkable. Brooklyn Rider: String quartet goes all over the map 2012-01-27T19:00:07Z

Far more than the top-heavy quartet, with its two violins offset by a single viola and a cello, a sextet offers perfect symmetry, balance and flexibility. Music Review: At Merkin Concert Hall, Concertante Blends New and Old 2010-05-18T21:26:00Z

But two string quartets took such era-spanning perspectives to fresh heights this year. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

"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

Thus the most effective moments in Saturday's first set were the soft-spoken ones, when Mallinger's quartet re-examined the ballad "For Heaven's Sake." Saxophonist Pat Mallinger gets a moment of glory 2011-03-06T15:54:00Z

Promiscuous even by Kronos standards, each program included several premieres, surrounded by a grab bag of works heard in the quartet’s recent concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Prospect Park Bandshell. Music Review: A Quartet Mixes It Up With Younger Voices 2010-10-11T22:00:00Z

Rosemary Joshua's fresh-faced soprano, Sarah Connolly's plush mezzo, Robert Murray's lithe tenor and Simon Keenlyside's formidable baritone made up an exemplary quartet of soloists, with Jonty Ward's treble interventions perfectly voiced. Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z

The Neapolitan quartet tells the story of two friends growing up in postwar Naples who must fend off physical violence and sexual aggression as they try to escape to a better life. The Real Elena Ferrante Surfaces-In Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

After the quartet broke up in 1967, Morello taught drums, lectured and made solo appearances. Jazz drummer Joe Morello dies aged 82 2011-03-14T14:57:37Z

Along with the Fountain of Youth Band, his crackerjack quartet, he has a special guest during this celebratory run: the guitarist Pat Metheny, a sometime collaborator and longtime admirer. Jazz Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

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

On “A Love Supreme,” Coltrane’s magnum opus, the quartet drives its modal approach to a devotional extreme. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Doll Skin, a quartet of women from Phoenix, is employing an all-female crew and working to support the other women performers. ‘It Was 11 Guys on a Bus, and Then Me’: Women on the Warped Tour 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

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

A quartet of a cellist and three violinists, their instruments marked with colored tape to help with the fingering, played for us on another day. Modern Love: Promises That Can Bend Without Breaking 2014-05-08T21:59:44Z

Sir Cliff was first of a quartet of knights to play the concert and, by and large, they received the best reaction. Stars shine on Queen's concert 2012-06-05T03:45:34Z

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

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

By the time he established his so-called classic quartet in 1962, he was focused on building resolute foundations. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

He also plays in the famed drummer Billy Hart’s quartet. The Bad Plus Greet the New Year With a New Lineup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The quartet second-guessed endings and beginnings, drove deep into particular intervals rather than the flow of melodies, and made cyclones around single chords. Music Review: Abstract and Fluid Jazz 2011-02-10T23:29:00Z

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

A quartet performing in the lobby might let kids determine their tempo or volume. 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

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

The quartet, which professes interest in transhumanism--the concept of technology enhancing human abilities--relies heavily on atmospherics. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z

Rounding out the quartet is Ken Jeong, who actually is funny. American spirit, as seen on TV via "The Masked Singer" and "The Titan Games" 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

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

The quartet of soloists includes the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, fresh from a series of ambitious staged performances juxtaposing works by Philip Glass and, happily, Handel. This Is the Best ‘Messiah’ in New York 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The Blackest Beautiful The Los Angeles quartet Letlive made a big splash in the post-hardcore scene with their third album, Fake History. Letlive: The Blackest Beautiful – review 2013-07-04T20:25:01Z

Instead, he played electric guitar and bass for a number of progressive rock and Christian groups, is well known around the Detroit music scene and currently performs in a quartet called David Winans’ Pi. BeBe and CeCe and the DNA of gospel 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Kylián's successors, choreographic duo Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, present Subject To Change, a lyrical duet set against an aggressive male quartet, and there's new work from newly appointed associate choreographer Johan Ingers. This week's new dance 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z

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

While youthful, naturally, the performers never looked immature as they cruised through Ms. Tharp’s carefully calculated, if seemingly spontaneous, framework: six duets, four trios, three quartets, two sextets, 12 solos. Dance Review: Juilliard Dances Repertory in Modern Classics 2014-03-24T22:53:13Z

It’s also a window into how Carter’s attitude about the nature of quartets evolved through his lifetime. Review: JACK Quartet Conquers an Elliott Carter Marathon 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

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

His most spectacular effort in the exhibition is a quartet of guitars representing the four seasons. Art Review: It?s the Craftsman, Not the Singer or the Song 2011-02-10T22:57:32Z

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

The exhibition’s main attraction, a quartet of loops projected on four different walls in the gallery’s central space, is less readily comprehensible. Art Review: Youth, With Hopes and Bliss Intact 2011-05-27T23:41:29Z

The quartet lie parallel to the coast, in the same formation barriers assume around the larger Gulf. An Untamed Island Meets Its Match 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

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

Ms. Bloom’s new book also includes another quartet of tales about a different, even more scandalizing twosome named Lionel and Julia. 2010-01-12T06:57:00Z

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

In addition to its core quartet of Berne, the clarinetist Oscar Noriega, the pianist Matt Mitchell and the percussionist Ches Smith, it is augmented on that album by the guitarist Marc Ducret. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

In a remarkable quartet that follows, Handel seems to anticipate where opera as a genre was heading. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

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

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

The quartet first re-formed in 2008, playing a handful of gigs. Cee Lo Green reunites with Goodie Mob 2010-10-08T13:06:00Z

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

It struck me as odd that in such an idiosyncratic quartet the individual players have so little sonic personality. Music Review: Kronos Quartet’s Wide Interests Project From the Stage 2014-03-30T22:19:45Z

This friendly musical palaver made for an enthralling evening of serious jazz comedy at the quartet’s Tuesday opening-night performance at Café Carlyle, where Bucky sat in as an honored guest. Music Review: John Pizzarelli Quartet at Café Carlyle 2012-05-30T21:21:30Z

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 quartet from Liverpool went on to sign with EMI label Parlophone and became arguably the most successful and influential pop band in history. Paul McCartney signs with Decca label, at last 2011-08-23T18:37:23Z

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

Kelley, who wrote the definitive 2009 biography “Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original,” the live recording catches the Monk quartet at a final creative high. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

So could the quartet of 1987 paintings named for the four elements: Earth, Water, Wind and Fire. He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Helmed by a quartet of Tel Aviv nightlife legends and set in the heart of the city's club-hopping core, this is a refreshingly grownup take on late-night revelry. Tel Aviv: What to Do When the Gallery Hopping Is Done 2012-10-21T15:00:00Z

Here she leads a thicker quartet with saxophone, keyboards, drums and electronic samples. 2010-01-08T03:22:00Z

Playing the Britten quartet was a tribute to that composer on the 100th anniversary of his birth, but also a nod, it would seem, to Mr. Watkins, who is British. Music Review: The Emerson String Quartet Plays at Caramoor 2013-07-22T21:49:20Z

“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

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 other two discs feature only the quartet, playing some of its best music yet. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

He quoted, from memory, several lines from a quartet in the opera in which an insecure, jealous Otello sings about his advancing age and the darkness of his face. An ‘Otello’ Without Blackface Highlights an Enduring Tradition in Opera 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

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

Children can also hear stories about the resident sprites and at 11 a.m. enjoy the spell cast by the music of the Metropolitan Four, a flute quartet. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

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

Lisa Bielawa based “The Trojan Women,” an expressive quartet, on a score she wrote for a production of Euripides’ tragedy of the same name. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z

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

Meanwhile, take in Mozart’s K. 428 quartet, Bartók’s fourth, and Mendelssohn’s precious A minor work. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Fujiwara: The 5th and 7th quartets are definitely lighter in character and texture: quite a different feeling than 1, 2, 3 and 4. Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z

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

Fried fish rolls appear as a quartet of golden cylinders on a little bamboo raft. Peter Chang restaurant review: A master’s cooking, times two 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

The new “Ghostbusters” pulled a gender switch, casting four actresses as the quartet of enterprising exorcists. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Starting in 2012, he worked with a more traditionally structured but equally distinctive quartet, featuring his longtime associate Marc Copland on piano. John Abercrombie, Lyrical Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 72 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

The quartet of fauns scamper with preposterous, effete randiness; the Nymphs get caught up in their floaty bri-nylon veils; the Maidens chomp through their bunches of grapes. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2010-09-26T21:30:00Z

That well-drilled flexibility allows the group to handle the Bartokian language of the first quartet as well as it handles the blues connotations of the third. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The strings performed on their own and with the jazz quartet, sometimes antiphonally, sometimes playing the same phrases or themes all together. Music Review: ‘Ten Freedom Summers,’ by Wadada Leo Smith 2013-05-03T05:55:12Z

Bernheim’s Duke overwhelmed the defenses of the soprano Rosa Feola’s Gilda with sheer power in Act I, and dialed up the sensuality with a coddled sound in the Act III quartet. Review: At the Met Opera, a Tenor Arrives in ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Getting back to the topic in hand, Peele hints that Get Out and Us are part of a quartet of movies he is planning, but he won’t go into details. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Nicolas said that he shared a “similar musical ethos” with the quartet and looked forward to joining it. Brooklyn Rider Gets a New Cellist 1460-09-30T05:00:00Z

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

Moss and Mavin soon joined them, and the quartet started playing esoteric music with odd time signatures and complex rhythmic structures. Hiatus Kaiyote’s Life-Affirming, Genre-Defying Cosmic Soul 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

Yet the kerfuffle exploded in the violin world like an out-of-tune screech in a Haydn quartet. Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Also in February, the Danish String Quartet performed Beethoven’s 16 quartets in six concerts over 12 days at Alice Tully Hall, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere the acrimony among the quartet was filled with venom. Rik Mayall dies: Comedian played spastic punk in 'The Young Ones' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

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

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

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

It was a flexible science by the time this quartet released its first full-length album, “Black Radio,” full of short, airplay-ready tunes and star guest vocalists. The Decade in Jazz: 10 Definitive Moments 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

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

Reynolds is a sound composer, and when the quartet sat down simply to play music, it seemed that the piece was finally coming to a point. American Music Festival at National Gallery opens with subdued concert 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The cause was pancreatic cancer, the quartet’s management company, David Rowe Artists, said. Geoff Nuttall, First Among Equals in Acclaimed Quartet, Dies at 56 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

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

So there is politics underlying every aspect of this funny, warm-hearted, deftly plotted film, and we fervently wish for the caper planned by this endearing quartet to succeed. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z

Occasionally Bernstein and Hekselman come together in a quartet, sparring over jazz standards. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Before the group engages with one of Beethoven’s rapturously admired late quartets, Op. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

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

As a teenager he formed a quartet with his brother, a cousin and a friend, and his playing soon drew the attention of Chico Marx. Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

“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

If the founding members of power-pop quartet the dB's regrouped for their first album in 30 years with a modicum of confidence, you wouldn't think it from the album's lyrics. The dB's: Falling Off the Sky – review 2012-07-12T21:15:01Z

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

Sleeper was captured in the same Tokyo run as the quartet's existing Personal Mountains album, but it turned out to be more energetic and vivacious even than that fine session. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – July 2012-07-25T10:18:00Z

I liked the sharp tang of caramelized Nicoise olives and the hint of licorice in a quartet of rare diver scallops interspersed with lobes of seared foie gras and crunchy batons of fried salsify. Terra Vista at the Snoqualmie Casino offers big portions, breathtaking views, hefty prices 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z

These, say the Globes, are now the films to beat; a quartet of heavyweights to choose between. Why the Golden Globes are still the ones to watch 2012-12-13T15:27:14Z

To close on Friday, a quartet led by Mr. Behrman offered its own engagement with rock’s lineage, in a work called “Long Throw.” Celebrating a Union That Rewired Classical Music 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z

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

It was into this unstable world of violated instruments and violently erratic sounds that Mr. Steen-Andersen parachuted the Schumann quartet. Review: The JACK Quartet, With Instruments of Destruction 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Out of the original quartet, she was the person who kept everyone anchored to reality. "And Just Like That," Miranda ruined Che for viewers 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z

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

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

It's do-or-die-on-the-fly for this sweet quartet as they fry for the title in a one-shot deal that airs Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m. Mighty-O, Top Pot, People's Cake: Food Network challengers 2011-04-07T13:31:04Z

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

The superhero of adapters is the four-in-one, a quartet of plugs that accommodates outlets in North America, continental Europe, the United Kingdom and the South Pacific/Australia. Using your electronics abroad

Turner's Round Trip quartet grew out of Con gigs in 2007 with his close friend the drummer Josh Morrison and bassists Phil Donkin and Empirical's Tom Farmer, with saxophonists Tom Challenger and Mark Chillingworth. Richard Turner obituary 2011-08-28T12:25:31Z

Starting a complete survey of the Beethoven quartets that spans six concerts in the space of two weeks, these three young Danes and their Norwegian cellist play the first three Op. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Recognizing its own relevance and impact, the English quartet reunited several years ago to perform classic material. Gang of Four turn back the clock with vital, aggressive show 2011-02-12T11:21:00Z

Haydn needs no introduction as a composer of string quartets. The Manhattan String Quartet, Presented by the Bohemians 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Like “Phantasmagoria” and “Mr. Tambourine Man,” this piece is imbued with a sense of nostalgia and farewell: the quartet defaults, in all five moments, to a quiet elegiac whisper. Review | A worthy tribute that didn’t stint on the talent: Wolf Trap fetes Corigliano at 80 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

When Ornette Coleman made his 1959 New York debut, performing a long engagement with his quartet at Lower Manhattan’s Five Spot Cafe, the city’s jazz community made its way to him. Ornette Coleman’s music polarized jazz, then became part of its DNA 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Deckard, brought back into service to kill the quartet of replicants, finds it no easy job—for they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision 2012-06-25T14:31:59Z

He kept a modest one more typically found in jazz quartets and quintets. How Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts infused one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands with a little jazz 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The quartet discussed opening a recording studio in Woodstock — the festival was originally intended to promote it. 5 Woodstock Myths, Debunked 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

At 7 p.m. comes a social hour, followed by an 8 p.m. show by two Seattle bands — a quartet led by young drummer Xavier Lecouturier and a quintet fronted by veteran pianist Marc Seales. Trumpeter Thomas Marriott helps start Seattle Jazz Fellowship where jazz veterans can mentor younger musicians 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

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

“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

According to Parish, when auditions were held for the casting of Forsythe's male quartet NNNN, "there was standing room only in the studio". Russia's ballet wars: dancers in the dock 2013-03-13T19:30:02Z

In the last two years the quartet has grabbed the attention of critics and audiences internationally. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

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

David showed me a quartet of boxed white wines with free-flowing spigots — no employee supervision or pour police. I spy the Columbia Inn at Peralynna

For Mann’s last several years in the quartet, colleagues and critics regularly advocated that he retire from the group before his intonation became unbearable. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Even when playing with a quartet in the busiest years of his career, he used the entire keyboard to symphonic effect — sounding like a solo pianist even as he left big patches of wide-open space. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

With catchy melodies and an undeniable energy, this quartet should be followed very closely. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z

Matters improved with the soprano's heartfelt renditions of two Rachmaninov songs, discreetly supported by Han and violinist Eugene Drucker of the Emerson quartet. Stars come out to honor Joan Harris in namesake theater 2011-03-11T17:55:16Z

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

The quartet prefers to gather around a single microphone to sing. ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Since the emergence of the quartet, which released its first album on Verve in 2002, jazz’s aesthetic center has moved perceptibly: away from the hotshot soloist and toward a more collectivist, band-driven ideal. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z

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

“Columbia Icefield,” his new work for quartet, isn’t really about depicting the grandeur of nature, à la Strauss’s “Alpine Symphony.” Review: The Prettiest, Most Progressive Campfire Music Ever 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Naturally, they bring exceptional insight and character to the four quartets of Denmark’s own Carl Nielsen. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The quartet doesn’t just perform the stunts, either. Daredevils build 'world's largest trampoline,' suspend it from crane 100 feet above the earth 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

About half of the 1hr. 14min. movie is devoted to the shenanigans of the heroine’s closest companions, a quartet of talking mice, and their slapstick battles with Lady Tremaine’s obnoxious cat Lucifer. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Soaring above the more pedestrian sounds of the townspeople with their lowdown dances, thickly harmonized barbershop quartets and crisp civic anthems, Marian’s soprano literalizes the idealism at the heart of her character and conflict. Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, ‘The Music Man’ Goes Flat 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

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

This quartet of exhibitions, plus a major commission for this spring’s Whitney Biennial, may have been an administrative nightmare. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

The quartet of accomplished pickers will join together May 25 in Nashville, Tenn., to launch months of celebrations at the Opry through December with a birthday party and shows planned for Oct. 8-9. All-star country jam band opens Opry's 85th party 2010-04-29T12:30:00Z

Written in 1976, the Britten quartet was first performed by the Amadeus Quartet in England in December of that year, just 15 days after the composer’s death at 63. Music Review: The Emerson String Quartet Plays at Caramoor 2013-07-22T21:49:20Z

Or, for that matter, the six early quartets published together as Op. A Quartet Sets a New Standard for Beethoven Marathons 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Also on the bill is the expert avant-garde bassist Michael Formanek, leading a quartet. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Its talented quartet of hard-working performers remind us of the increasing breadth and depth of British musical theatre talent. Barbershopera: Apocalypse No! ? review 2011-01-14T21:31:01Z

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

The string quartet sets each scene with a suitable music style. 'As One,' the every(wo)man transgender opera 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

After sixty-eight quartets, Mr. Yee reported, Haydn fatigue has yet to set in. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and many other notables studied, then to nearby St. Stephens Green, where a chamber quartet was performing on the lawn, and on to the winding street of pubs in Temple Bar. The World's Best City Walks 2010-08-18T22:45:00Z

Even on the relatively brief pieces here — particularly “Like Sonny” and the three versions of “Village Blues” — the quartet doesn’t hurry, and Coltrane plays beautifully carved lines over Jones’s sturdy, polyrhythmic strut. John Coltrane Took a Detour in 1964. Now It’s a New Album. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

There’s something to be said for stylistic consistency, exhibited here across two duets, a quartet and bookending dances for five. Dance Review: Skybetter & Associates Dance at Joyce SoHo 2012-04-09T21:24:23Z

The St. Lawrence players aren’t the only friends Adams relied on for his new quartet: An old ally named Beethoven returns for a big role. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Agnelli, the Italian “X-Factor” judge, offered the quartet some advice for building on its current momentum: Tour as much as possible, get experience under their belts and continue to be themselves. They Won Eurovision. Can They Conquer the World? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Dither, an electric guitar quartet, presents an evening of Mr. Zorn’s Game Pieces, each involving different rules and tactics and resulting in unexpected, spontaneous performances. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Think of his last three symphonies or the six quartets he dedicated to Haydn. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z

No word on when season three will air here, so for now you'll have make do with the final quartet of episodes from the current run over on iPlayer. Catch-up TV guide: from Silence In The House Of God to Ask My Mom 2013-06-15T05:00:07Z

They call themselves Four Others, a whimsical play on Four Brothers, a quartet of saxophonists who cut a hit recording by that name in 1947. 'Four Others' charge hard at Jazz Showcase 2011-04-01T15:34:00Z

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

Joni Sledge, who along with her three sisters formed the disco-era family quartet Sister Sledge, best known for the hit song “We Are Family,” was found dead in her home in Phoenix on Friday. Joni Sledge, Singer in the ‘We Are Family’ Group Sister Sledge, Dies at 60 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

Choral organizations, ranging in size from vocal quartets and quintets to groups of more than 40 singers representing seven countries, mounted a musical smorgasbord of distinctive styles and flavors. A smorgasbord of singers delivers a timely serenade 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

In a statement released on Twitter, the group said that while they wish Camila “well,” they will continue on as a quartet without her. Fifth Harmony Is Now Fourth Harmony After Camila Cabello Left the Group 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

The U.K. quartet thrilled a packed Capital One Arena crowd on Friday with a set featuring lots of tunes from “Delta,” their fourth and latest record, and their least folkie collection yet. Review | The Mumfords rock out at Capital One Arena 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Napoleon also led many of his own trios and quartets on the nightclub and jazz festival circuits, and he played with many promising younger players, such as trumpeter Bria Skonberg. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The “Dissonance” quartet is the last in a set of six that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, who then deemed Mozart “the greatest composer known to me.” Music Review: All Mozart, by Emerson Quartet in Mostly Mozart 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z

This suave, handsome baritone, who bears a strong physical resemblance to George Clooney, is such a confident singer that his performance, directed by the pianist Alex Rybeck, leading a quartet, is the real deal. Review: Todd Murray’s ‘Croon,’ Caresses Woven From Music and Lyrics 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Known for her smoky voice and sultry stare, Bacall raised the temperature in a quartet of hard-boiled 1940s thrillers, although her career went on to include musicals, melodramas and art-house controversies. Lauren Bacall dies at 89 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

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

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

Brahms’s piano quartets are cornerstones of the repertory. Review: At Carnegie Hall, Brahms Piano Quartets, With a New Baby as a Coda 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

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 would have predicted that the shyest of the quartet would end up, half a century later, as a popular playwright and a national institution. Alan Bennett: a quiet radical 2012-10-12T09:38:00Z

This directness of approach also kept the late quartet in communion with the two early quartets, Op 18 Nos 6 and 3, performed in the first half with the same poised motion and honeyed tone. Artemis Quartet - review 2011-01-23T18:18:53Z

The superb vocal quartet Hudson Shad was on hand. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The fifth quartet, played last, worked because it is playable: its energy builds on rather than suffocates the warmth and intelligence brought by the musicians. Smith Quartet 2010-04-25T21:15:00Z

Many brilliant colleagues have written glowingly about Feldman, and the second quartet in particular. Music Review: A Marathon Performance (Aches, Too) 2014-04-29T21:11:41Z

The New Amsterdam singers expressively sang four of his “Evening Songs,” two for a cappella chorus and two for vocal quartet with piano, played by Pen Ying Fang. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers at Church of the Holy Trinity 2010-06-06T22:16:00Z

The Orion players’ familiarity to me did not diminish the impact of their compelling performance of Schubert’s last, strangely elusive quartet. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z

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

Caroline Sullivan Mats Eilertsen Radio Yonder Much of this quartet album focuses on delicate, melancholic melodies over a floating, rhythmic feel. F&M playlist 2010-06-03T22:30:00Z

His San Francisco quartet revels in garage-psychedelia, but their version comes in all shapes and sizes. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

An evocative movement from that quartet, in slightly altered form, appears as a track called “Dive” on her latest CD, the lively “Pop-Pop,” done in collaboration with the producer and percussionist P. C. Muñoz. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z

At church gatherings, gospel quartets moved outside and were joined by string bands. Where the Hills and Hollows Are Alive With Music 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

He wrote speechifying soliloquies, conversational duets and chattery trios and quartets. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The third piece, “The Mass-Produced Insight,” from January, 1963, is the crown jewel of the quartet. Saul Bellow, Film Critic 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

In "Arenal," men and women perform energetic, entwining duos, trios and quartets to Mediterranean songs — in counterpoint to a soloist who weaves through them with more mournful, emphatic gestures. Dance review: Artful, brooding work from Spain's Compa?ia Nacionial de Danza 2010-04-23T19:40:00Z

As a guitarist who leads his own quartet, he instigates high-speed musical conversations within the group that have the fast, frisky playfulness of a pro basketball team tossing off a victory. Music Review: John Pizzarelli Quartet at Café Carlyle 2012-05-30T21:21:30Z

Eastern time, he will play a program of boleros, or slow dance numbers, alongside Luis Perdomo, the pianist in his quartet. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Heath, 86, will lead his big band in the premiere of a suite called “Bird Is the Word” on Friday night; Mr. Konitz, 85, will work with a quartet on Sunday afternoon. | Jazz: Spirit of Parker, Freely Inhaled 2013-08-16T19:07:54Z

A quartet of ensemble singers doubled as her press gang, merrily wreaking havoc on Pygmalion’s relationship with Céphise and interacting — as far as is possible — with some of the celebrity wax figures around the room. On Site Opera Brings ‘Pygmalion’ to Madame Tussauds 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The quartet of men who open the dance couldn’t quite lock into one another’s timing. Darrell Grand Moultrie brings ‘Vessels’ to Harman Center for the Arts

A quartet in silence, it is its own music, the connections and ricochets between the dancers making its harmonies marvelous. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Here he reconvenes that group, Arts and Crafts, a light-handed and swinging quartet with Terell Stafford on trumpet; Gary Versace on piano, organ and accordion; and Martin Wind on bass. Jazz Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

For this performance, at a hub of Nuyorican culture in the Bronx, he leads his excellent quartet, with a video component by the artist David Dempewolf. Jazz Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

This concert, a celebration of the station’s own 75th anniversary, will feature the avant-garde bassist Henry Grimes and a postbop quartet led by George Coleman, the eminent tenor saxophonist. Jazz Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

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

The successful books, a quartet of vampire romance novels aimed at teens, which went on to sell 120 million copies worldwide, soon received the movie treatment. "Twilight" taught us the dangers of young women not choosing themselves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

I am now wondering, by the way, if it’s too soon to start rereading Ferrante’s Naples quartet. Reimagining Old Friends at the National Theater in London 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

He draws here from a new album, “In Memory of Things Yet Seen,” featuring a knockabout quartet with Darius Jones on alto saxophone, Bill McHenry on tenor saxophone and Chad Taylor on drums. Jazz Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

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

And he’s at his most exciting in an early quartet with his three muses, when his new energies send him sailing through the air in leaps around them. Dance Review: Youth, Balanchine and Fans Are Served 2011-05-06T23:29:12Z

He was the last surviving member of its original quartet, who adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname "Ramone." Ramones punk band co-founder Tommy dies at 65 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z

Swed also checked in with the Calder Quartet for the second installment of the group’s three-year Beethoven quartet cycle at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica — a show that included some “astonishing listening.” Essential Arts & Culture: What L.A. loses if we lose the NEA; starchitecture in Hamburg; Kerry James Marshall at MOCA 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

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

Mr. Childs himself will close Friday evening’s programming with his quartet. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

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

Finding an ideally balanced quartet of soloists, however, is apparently tricky these days. Philharmonia/Gatti – review 2013-04-21T15:09:37Z

Later that decade, Coltrane also worked briefly in an adventurous and now legendary quartet with pianist Thelonious Monk. 50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation 2010-08-09T15:49:00Z

The quartet’s exhilarating brand of emo, primarily from their stellar album “I Became Birds,” blends the fiery rage of hardcore with the oddball existentialism of indie recluses Neutral Milk Hotel. Three emo bands fight the alienation of the online world by rocking out IRL 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

“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

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

The self-satisfied cultural assumptions of the central quartet of “Non-Fiction,” like their social and sexual roundelay, is vacuum-sealed; the characters don’t walk in a street with any life or a city with any people. “Non-Fiction,” Reviewed: A Vacuum-Sealed View of France’s Culturati 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

Hip Angelenos have known for years about Chicano Batman, an excellently named quartet whose members sport snazzy formal wear as they unspool grooves with deep roots in rock, soul, funk, psychedelic and pan-Latin music. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

If we can’t see the lethal quartet drawing near by now, Callahan makes us feel the contours of their approach with a sloped melody. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

The Kronos is not a quartet that lives by its sound, and many of its concerts make use of amplification throughout. Music Review: Kronos Quartet’s Wide Interests Project From the Stage 2014-03-30T22:19:45Z

There is a warm glow to the sound of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, a conductorless ensemble made up of members of a variety of American orchestras and quartets. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2014-03-17T20:59:12Z

“It’s Always Sunny” has always referred to its quartet as a gang, both to emphasize the characters’ brutishness and to set them apart from more familiar sitcom friend groups. The Comforts of Watching “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Eat Itself 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

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

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

And Mr. Gilbertson has said that he adjusted his initial sketches for his quartet after the 2016 election, making them “more introspective and comforting.” Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

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

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

This is a classic Cunningham joke: is this a quartet or a trio with an intruder? Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z

Though the notoriety ensured that Slayer would be virtually banned from commercial radio, video channels and some chain record stores, the quartet developed an arena-level following around the world. Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman dead at 49 2013-05-02T23:22:00Z

I once went to a winery event featuring a jazz quartet and was shocked when they started playing an Alice Coltrane composition. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Atlantic, which released the Roach album, was impressed enough to sponsor a quartet session for Ibn Ali. The Pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s Lone Album Arrives, 56 Years Later 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Brimming with melodies and myriad structural devices masked by charm and cunning, the quartet closes with a raucous “Gypsy Rondo.” Bold and exciting, all-star Chamber Music Society plays a thrilling concert 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

For the foreseeable future, her collaboration with the quartet will be online. A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

My favorite story in this quartet is “The Boxdale Inheritance,” in which Dalgliesh is called upon to perform a task redolent of a Trollope novel. Four perfectly drawn short mysteries by the late, great P.D. James 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

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

Periodically the movie stops in its tracks for brief serenades by a putative Greek chorus: a dapper white male quartet singing American folk songs and spirituals. | ?Happy, Happy': ?Happy, Happy,? Directed by Anne Sewitsky ? Review 2011-09-15T22:54:43Z

“A work-in-progress as raw as this morning’s Twitter rant” and as “lasting and important” as “Ulysses” is how our reviewer, Rebecca Makkai, described the seasonal quartet of which this novel is the third movement. New in Paperback: ‘The Old Drift’ and ‘Cake’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. DeJohnette was leading this ad hoc quartet as part of his annual benefit for the Queens Galley, a nonprofit food outreach and soup kitchen in Kingston, N.Y. Music Review: Ad Hoc Quartet With Common Roots 2010-08-29T21:38:00Z

These six works are by composers not associated with string quartets. Brodsky Quartet: In the South – review 2013-03-24T00:05:47Z

Over 80 real-time minutes, the quartet ends up drunk with self-righteousness, vomiting their opinions all over each other. Review | ‘God of Carnage’ hasn’t lost its satirical bite, but at Keegan, it needs more laughs 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

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

There's a drawing room, french windows and a quartet of young people in tennis gear. The Breadwinner – review 2013-04-24T11:56:16Z

The bullet lodged in Mariano’s body causes him to play two notes at once with the recorder he plays in a quartet. Review: ‘Two Shots Fired,’ Martín Rejtman’s Absurdist Tale 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The presenting quartet lauded as a dream team. So far, 10 O'Clock Live just talks down to the kids 2011-01-21T15:40:43Z

Then, with his quartet, he hit the Five Spot Caféin New York in November, 1959, for his first New York gig, a two-week engagement that stretched to two and a half months. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

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

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

Cage and Cunningham began working together in 1942; Rauschenberg and Mr. Johns became, with them, an artistic quartet of close friends in the 1950s. Jasper Johns Speaks of Merce Cunningham 2013-01-08T00:07:44Z

Echoing its concert just a few months ago at Allstate Arena, the quartet clings to an array of radio smashes and easily digested sing-a-long ditties. Lollapalooza Day 2: Chief Keef, Frank Ocean, Chili Peppers and an evacuation 2012-08-05T07:02:00Z

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

Adam O’Farrill, a trumpeter who has lived in the borough almost his entire life, opened the festival on Thursday with a set of twisty new music from a forthcoming album with his quartet, Stranger Days. A BRIC in Flux Turns Out an Intimate, Focused JazzFest 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

The pace here was swifter than that of many other quartets, so that the deep melancholy of the music gained an added dimension in the inexorable passing of time. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z

Underneath a stage set that resembled the Westway overpass - one of the main trunk roads into central London - the quartet played for more than two hours. Blur to release Hyde Park show 2012-08-15T10:12:35Z

The Cleveland Orchestra performed his quartet concerto “Dithyrambe” with the Emerson String Quartet. A modernist master’s Mozartean face: Rihm writes for Barto’s pianos 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

I’ve not seen a “Guys and Dolls” that gives its central quartet such equal weight. Review: A Mobile Audience for a Moving ‘Guys and Dolls’ 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

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

The quartet that Shorter assembled around the turn of the new millennium was his first attempt as a bandleader to revisit and expand upon the all-things-must-explode m.o. of Davis’s 1960s quintet. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Two charming new quartets of performers have joined shows that might be regarded as Broadway equivalents of pop-chart toppers: “God of Carnage” and “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps,” accessible comedies with nigh-irresistible hooks. Theater: New Casts Enliven ?God of Carnage? and ?39 Steps? 2010-04-16T23:59:00Z

The full ensemble closed the performance with the Act III quartet from Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Music Review: Wainwright Offers Taste of Opera 2011-06-29T21:54:02Z

Good thing, too, since as the one non-star in the main quartet he is given very little dialogue for most of the film. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill in The Watch: Unwatchable 2012-07-26T12:00:02Z

But it took great effort, as he admitted in the moving dedication of those quartets. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z

The film, which stars Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins and Tom Courtenay, tells the story of former members of a famous quartet who live in a retirement home for musicians. A Minute With: Dustin Hoffman on his directing debut 2013-01-23T10:04:28Z

Paul Desmond had written “Take Five” partly as a gesture to the quartet’s drummer, Joe Morello, who wanted to show off his newfound confidence playing in 5/4 time. ‘Take Five’ Is Impeccable. ‘Time Outtakes’ Shows How Dave Brubeck Made It. 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

A pork belly and kimchi pancake provides a savory, golden brown canvas that invites experimenting with a quartet of condiments. Fine revelry at the Center of the Universe 2011-03-18T01:11:27Z

Rough Trade then signed the band, with legendary talent scout Geoff Travis attending one of the quartet's shows in New York. Warpaint's patience is paying off 2011-03-18T22:10:00Z

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

That was one issue on Tuesday, an unexpectedly inconsistent evening from a quartet usually so reliable. Review: Emerson String Quartet Caps Banner Season With Works of Mixed Emotions 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

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

On more than one occasion, a member of the quartet has belted out “Twelve Days of Christmas” with stentorian gusto when the group was supposed to be singing a soulful version of “Silent Night.” After 40 Years of Fa-La-Laing, a New York Caroler Hands In His Bells 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

There's a quartet of dried warming spices: cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and nutmeg, as well as vanilla extract, almond paste, and slivered almonds. Stollen: the ultimate German Christmas bread 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

“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

Appearing under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, this engaging foursome performs the third of Mozart’s “Prussian” quartets, Beethoven’s titanic Op. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The reflective feel connected “Nebraska” to the other works on the program by Mr. Sigurdsson: four pieces from “Dreamland,” his 2009 documentary film score, arranged by Mr. Muhly, who joined the quartet at the piano. Music Review: Classical-Pop Border, No Guards in Sight 2011-01-20T22:49:21Z

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

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

Its rigors, skillfully navigated by the performers, were matched by the abusive focus on bitterly dissonant double stops in the last quartet, “Ergma.” JACK Quartet tries to achieve cohesion amid dissonance 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

On this searing debut, recorded with a quartet, her key sparring partner is Mr. Mitchell, who doubles on piano and electronics. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

If your Halloween wasn’t scary enough, this merry quartet ought to up the ante, 7 p.m. Top weekend shows: Squarepusher, Napalm Death 2012-11-02T18:26:00Z

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

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

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

"Being outside our tradition makes it easier to come back in and play a Beethoven quartet because we know what it's like trying to put a piece together," says Jacobsen from his home in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Rider: String quartet goes all over the map 2012-01-27T19:00:07Z

She has guarded her privacy with great care ever since, even as her popularity increased with each volume in her best-selling Neapolitan quartet, a series that began with My Brilliant Friend. The Real Elena Ferrante Surfaces-In Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

On his CD the piece “Pegasus” is scored for quartet and wind ensemble, opening with a delicate searching motif in the piano. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

He returns with his quartet, featuring the alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, the bassist Jay Anderson and the drummer Billy Drummond. Jazz Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Friday’s concert is worth noting as well: It will involve the premiere of a piano quartet by Don Byron and Messiaen’s ever vital “Quartet for the End of Time.” Classical Music Listings for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

His classic quartet — one of the most revered groups in the history of jazz — was still intact, but he had taken to attacking its equilibrium, infusing it constantly with fresh blood. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

By the second quartet, though, Smith has found his recognizable, mature language, especially in the pacing. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Competition is also a theme of the other premiere, “Contact Sport,” a male quartet that uses athletic movements to suggest the ever-changing relationships among four brothers. The Week Ahead: June 10 — 16 2012-06-08T19:14:41Z

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

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

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

The quartet stood toward the back of the stage, ceding the front and center to its guests. Music Review: Ethel Plays Classical, Rock, Pop and Folk 2010-07-29T21:53:00Z

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

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

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

And rather than one musician, there are four: a quartet of accomplished jazz artists, playing mainly in a post-bop vein. Review: Raphael Xavier, Breaking Out of Boxes, Barely 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Aside from Coltrane’s quartet itself there’s a brass section with tubas and euphoniums, and on the piece called “Africa” a second bassist joins the core band. Music Review: Reggie Workman and Eric Reed at Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-30T22:55:47Z

Little Dragon Ritual Union Peacefrog Swedish quartet Little Dragon spent 10 years playing together before they got around to releasing even a single. Little Dragon: Ritual Union ? review 2011-07-14T21:20:00Z

The group is in the process of recording the three Lachenmann quartets. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

Gathered around Ms. Cook was a quartet led by her brilliant musical director and pianist, Lee Musiker. Review: Barbara Cook Sang Standards, With Audience Members as Acolytes 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

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

Although the five short movements gesture toward meaning with swells of intensity and small dramatic flourishes, Shaw’s exploration of ideas sounds underdeveloped here — especially compared with her other works for quartet. Dover Quartet boasts young stars in the making 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

Haley Lady Gaga served as mentor in round two and said she wanted to inspire the quartet on the Leiber-Stoller songbook. 'American Idol': Lady Gaga gives microphone advice 2011-05-12T02:06:53Z

You might think of the quartet existing as an installation. Exploring a Cathartic Moment in a Lengthy String Quartet 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

And when he hunkered down with the quartet, as on a brilliant reading of “Stardust” and an original waltz called “Soul Dance,” his higher gear served him well. Music Review: Joshua Redman at Town Hall 2013-06-06T21:53:18Z

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

The producers can't have planned this but they somehow landed upon a quartet built for the ideal fantasy quarantine house. "Great British Baking Show" was a showstopper, redeemed this season by fantastic contestants 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

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

To a degree, this new outfit marks a return to the kind of expansive jazz-funk experimentation that Potter first tried out in the mid-2000s, with his quartet Underground. New Year’s Eve: A Procrastinator’s Guide to Music and Comedy Shows 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

For the most part, though, after 25 years, Seinfeld is like its quartet of incarcerated characters were at the end of its finale–alone in its world, sufficient unto itself. Seinfeld at 25: There's Still Nothing Else Like It 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

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

But trendiness notwithstanding, this group is anchored firmly in the straightforward quartet world. Music Review: A String Quartet?s Nod to Debussy at Angel Orensanz Foundation 2010-03-16T21:59:00Z

On Thursday, Luna’s lineup was the same quartet — with Mr. Eden on guitar, Lee Wall on drums and Britta Phillips on bass — that disbanded in 2005 after making seven studio albums. Review: A Reunited Luna Plays Brooklyn’s Northside Festival 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

The Guarneri became one of the world’s best-known quartets, setting a standard in quartetistry with seamless, warm and impassioned playing and a unanimity that did not efface individual personalities. David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z

Stretches of this fantasy in four connected movements are scored for one, two or three instruments, and those combinations say as much about the nature of musical interplay as the full quartet passages. Music Review: A String Quartet?s Nod to Debussy at Angel Orensanz Foundation 2010-03-16T21:59:00Z

The quartet, illuminated from above as if caught in sunlight streaming through a high window, repeatedly played keening laments, at times joined by Ms. Anderson’s keyboard or electric violin. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z

But basically, the show is probably a lot like the first: an evenly balanced quartet on a chamber music scale, with all the players distinctive personalities, yet clearly part of the same vanguard world. Art in Review: ‘Duchamp Brothers & Sister’: ‘Works of Art’ 2012-11-08T22:45:07Z

Like the Mozart quartet, which it emulates, Jadin’s begins with a slow introduction clouded with smoky dissonances over a weary heartbeat played by the cello. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

This quartet — pianos, not strings — is joined by a leading new-music violinist for a sprawling, free program that culminates with another contribution to the Julius Eastman revival, a performance of his “Gay Guerrilla.” 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Concluding with Mr. Lloyd’s quartet was both a no-brainer and a coup. Review: Charles Lloyd Returns to the Village Vanguard 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The quartet seems to fixate, to forget, to fret, continually searching for something hovering frustratingly but perceptibly out of reach. New-Music Festival in Chicago Offers the Complicated and the Compelling 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

“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

The quartet found itself in front of a particularly inattentive audience Saturday night and played the moment for laughs. SXSW 2013: It's a wrap 2013-03-17T23:33:00Z

One of the quartets on the program for the final concert on Thursday, Op. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

It’s all too easy to recognize the play’s central quartet as female singleton types with DNA drawn directly from that highly influential HBO series. | 'Enfrascada: Revenge as a Dish Served in Mason Jars 2011-06-08T20:49:03Z

Charles Lloyd seemed perfectly at home onstage at the Village Vanguard on Sunday night, working with standard equipment: his tenor saxophone, his quartet, his tunes. Review: Charles Lloyd Returns to the Village Vanguard 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

For 90 minutes, we are treated to an exuberant kaleidoscope of colours, dynamics and forms: churning tribal ensembles alternating with slow, sculpted quartets; ripping, slashing, juddering movements that refine into small, polished images. Batsheva Ensemble 2012-11-20T15:27:24Z

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

In London, the children in the audience fidgeted and whispered their way through Dvorak's quartet. Strings attached 2010-10-02T23:03:00Z

Holograms Captured Tracks True to their name, Swedish quartet Holograms are a shape-shifting lot: what you see in them depends on the angle from which you look. Holograms: Holograms – review 2012-08-02T20:15:01Z

Her instrumentation is distinct: one work, “Trajectories,” is for piano and electronics; another, “Shades of Silence,” for a quartet of Baroque instruments. CD review: young Icelandic composer’s organic music; Milhaud’s weighty ‘Orestie’

Kyuss deserves its own chapter in the hard-rock and metal history books, but the quartet was swallowed up by the Southern California desert from which it came after a handful of early-'90s albums. Kyuss Lives re-emerges from desert 2011-12-01T15:49:25Z

The first of the quartet’s two movements is fueled largely by a mere seven notes of Beethoven — a nervous, tapping motif that under Adams’s microscope squirms and spins off in endless aggressive, pulsating patterns. St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Library of Congress 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

There followed a warm and nuanced performance of Haydn’s first quartet. Ambitious program; off night 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The quartet from Oxford, with six studio albums under its belt, decided to break up "due to the 17 year itch," it said in a statement. British band Supergrass announces split 2010-04-12T13:09:00Z

The very first concert — in 1946, the year after Bartók died — included the Hungarian composer’s most aggressively difficult quartet, his Third. Robert Mann: A musical revolutionary on par with Cage, Bernstein, Callas and Gould 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Isolated duets, trios and quartets, converging at the end, carry the audience from space to space, while a video exhibition in the lobby documents the process of the work’s creation. Patricia Hoffbauer Takes Dance in a Wry, Irreverent Direction 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

They produce a polished ease during sections of knotty polyphony in the first quartet, and bring gravity, as well as explosive intensity, to the second, “Secret Desire to Be Black.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

You’ll have other chances to see this quartet — notably at the Winter Jazzfest, on Jan. 6 — but why wait that long? The Week Ahead: Dec. 18 ? 24 2011-12-16T18:54:22Z

At the time he was working with Battles, a quartet that plays prog-rock through the looking glass, and one wondered how and where he could make this music happen live. The Week Ahead: Mar. 6 ? 14 2011-03-05T18:13:26Z

In another passage, a quartet of four men continually surged through an unpredictable mix of lifts, leaps and extensions. Review: Here there be monsters ? of vital interest to dance fans, thanks to Whim W'Him 2011-01-15T17:57:04Z

Merging rock’s cathartic urgency with country’s mournful melodies isn’t an innovation, yet the polished quartet makes that combination sound unprecedented with stripped-down, precise arrangements in lieu of arena-size brawn. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

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

This potential area of conflict was delineated, in a positive way, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, by the quartet of vibes maestro Gary Burton with Julian Lage, just 22. Gary Burton Quartet; Billy Jenkins and the BBC Band ? review 2010-11-23T23:00:00Z

To judge from the first disc of its new recorded Bartók set, with the even-numbered quartets, the group’s account will not displace the Takács but promises to be in its league. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

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

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.

There was equally appalling financial news for Fantastic Four, 2oth Century Fox’s abortive attempt to reboot the Marvel Comics superhero quartet. Straight Outta Compton tops the US box office with attitude 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

The promoter used his own money to pay Epstein, while officials at the classy Carnegie, where no rock stars had been permitted, apparently thought they had taken on a folk quartet. Sid Bernstein, Who Brought Beatles to Shea, Dies 2013-08-21T19:45:11Z

Wearing heavy eyeliner and tiny miniskirts, Californian quartet the Like are 1960s perfection: Wishing He Was Dead is wrapped in Motown- and Shadow Morton-inspired teen angst. Camden Crawl 2010-05-02T21:00:00Z

“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

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

I have a jazz band that I sing with and a quartet. Dick Van Dyke on ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ and Dancing at 93 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

He returns next week with his quartet, featuring the alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, the bassist Jay Anderson and the drummer Billy Drummond. Jazz Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

He plays here in a quartet featuring Frahm, a luminous tenor saxophonist. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

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

Her latest album, “Stripped,” from 2016, finds her in a raspy repartee with an expert quartet of New York jazz musicians, revisiting some highlights from her back catalog. New Year’s Eve 2017: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

“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

Miller Theater’s enjoyable pop-up concerts — free entry, drinks on tap — get underway for the year with an interesting program from a quartet that is about to enter a graduate residency at the Juilliard School. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Speculation about a possible reunion of the Swedish pop group ABBA, perhaps the most popular band in the world during the 1970s, is bubbling up again, following remarks by two members of the quartet. ArtsBeat: Here They Go Again? ABBA Members Raise Idea of a Reunion 2010-12-31T18:08:11Z

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

Brubeck lent his name to an octet, a quartet and a trio. The Essential Dave Brubeck: Everything You Need to Know About the Jazz Great 2012-12-05T19:00:18Z

Collaborators dropped in often, including the members of Shorter’s longtime quartet, whom he wrote into the score as a kind of counterweight to the full orchestra. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

This quartet would challenge even the greatest choreographers. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z

It was on that show that Williams — who launched his own career as part of an all-brother quartet — introduced the world to the original four singing Osmond Brothers of Utah. Legendary Singer Andy Williams Has Died at 84 2012-09-26T13:42:48Z

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

On this tour he's part of a quartet composed of 'oud, violin, double bass and percussion. A tough choice for Seattle world-music fans: Simon Shaheen or Gamelan Pacifica 2010-12-02T21:17:00Z

On April 23 and May 4, the quartet presents concerts at Alice Tully Hall dedicated to works preoccupied with death, including the last three Shostakovich quartets and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.” Emerson String Quartet Adapts to a Different Cellist 2014-04-11T21:23:13Z

And you can hear it in every note of the first album by Brooklyn-based quartet the Drums. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z

One of the lovelier songs on “Riverside,” the self-titled debut album of a sturdily approachable new jazz quartet, bears the title “Old Church, New Paint.” New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z

The quartet is usually performed with a short coda that Barber substituted as the finale of the work. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z

The Tennessee quartet, long big internationally, finally enjoyed mainstream success in the United States last year when their song "Use Somebody" crossed over from rock radio to pop radio. 2010-01-31T13:30:00Z

In the Ives they moved easily among the many quotations and styles, folksy and formal, that swirl around the opening movement of the quartet. Music Review: Strange Bedfellows For a Schoenberg Series 2010-08-30T22:06:00Z

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

The quartet, who each perform two shows a week, are all 12 or under. 'Matilda' leads race for theater's Olivier Awards 2012-04-15T19:09:08Z

The indie-classical quartet arrived Sunday afternoon at the National Gallery of Art with a program titled “Blue Dress.” Perspective | A quartet named Ethel brings fresh ideas to town 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

The quartet has evolved in the past five years: more refined at songwriting, more sophisticated with electronics, better drumming. ArtsBeat: Spectacle Day at Coachella 2011-04-17T21:19:22Z

The Chiara members said it took a good year to commit the Bartok quartets to memory; Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” by contrast, took less than two weeks. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

The Fantastic Four film received just 40/100 on reviews aggregator Metacritic and the quartet did not receive much of a sales spike following their almost-as-badly-received sequel The Rise of the Silver Surfer. Spider-man: no longer the US's favourite comic book hero? 2013-06-28T15:54:50Z

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 rest of the top-10 list comprised the usual January detritus, plus a quartet of Academy Award contenders getting a bump from Tuesday's announcement of the Oscar nominations. Box Office: Rite Makes Might 2011-01-30T05:10:00Z

Almost always, though, I heard something else: an approach to quartet playing that held ensemble acuity, a grasp of musical architecture, inner tension and sheer beauty in a kind of miraculous balance. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

It contains sequences that sound admirable but ordinary — an able, flexible new jazz quartet, doing things we’ve possibly heard before — and then pockets of real brilliance. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z

Performing between the two hometown acts was Post Pink, a Baltimore quartet that varied its jumpy post-punk with slower, bluesier passages. Flasher and Puff Pieces: Two standouts in D.C.’s lively punk scene 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The directness and clarity of the quartet’s performance of the original made the beefed-up version seem almost obvious in comparison. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico 2012-07-29T20:46:59Z

This time, back at the same club, the group is different again: a quartet with the pianist David Virelles, Mr. Morgan on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. Music Review: Tomasz Stanko Quartet at Jazz Standard 2012-06-01T20:54:33Z

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

But the quartet is also a homage to Purcell, ending with a “Chacony,” a series of variations over a repeated bass line, that reveals Britten’s affinity with that English Baroque composer. Music Review: Escher String Quartet Plays Britten at Lincoln Center 2012-10-28T21:26:29Z

Among our recommended works of fiction this week is Ali Smith’s “Winter,” an “insubordinate folk tale” that continues her projected quartet tied to the seasons. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The same month, the composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter told The Times that he and his quartet “never rehearse anything.” What’s on TV Wednesday: The Kennedy Center Honors and ‘Nova’ 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

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

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

In the early 1980s, Mr. Brubeck formed a new quartet, with which he toured until shortly before his death. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck dies at 91 2012-12-06T03:26:03Z

This kind of playing paid dividends in Schumann’s String Quartet No. 3 as well, a piece, as it happens, that draws on the quartets of Haydn and Beethoven, though with a more lyrical bent. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

On Disc 1, the quartet embeds itself within the 34-piece Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, doing Mr. Shorter’s soaring, relentless scores. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In the original quartet the tension between the Grim Reaper and the maiden is expressed by the tussle between the violin and the cello in the Andante’s variations. Music Review: Reliving Schubert?s Classic Tussle With Death 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z

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 latter is home to a quartet of buildings whose shabby states belie their earlier vitality. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Best, and least bombastic, was a febrile account of Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings, with a passionate, elegant central quartet drawn from the orchestra’s principal players. Review: Planets, Tubas and Febrile Strings With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

By contrast, the climactic confrontation between the quartet of lovers acquires the starkness of Greek tragedy as they are ranged en masse against each other. Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker: Tatyana – review 2013-02-01T14:42:58Z

Most of his concert and nightclub work, though, was as the leader of a quartet or quintet. Clark Terry, Influential Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 94 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

British quartet Temples quite transparently draws nearly every aspect of its sound and aesthetic from ’60s psychedelic rock, earning high praise from the ever backward-looking British music press and classic rock icons like Johnny Marr. Your week in Seattle music: Heart, Blake Shelton and more 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

But Desperate Housewives went awry the moment the creators stopped trusting their central quartet to drive the plot, and started making things happen to them. Desperate Housewives: getting desperate 2011-08-08T10:24:45Z

And the quartet is close to other noteworthy architecture and sculpture, making the tour even more worthwhile. Where to See — Really See — the Art of Maya Lin 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Yet ghostly ensemble textures for the entire quartet were the highlight. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The more adventurous of the two quartets on the album reunite there, bringing a world of insights; its members are Tom Harrell on trumpet, Anthony Cox on bass and Billy Hart on drums. Jazz Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

The most promising was Feels, a new Los Angeles quartet formerly known as Raw Geronimo. Sold-out Burger a-Go-Go Fest celebrates girl punk in Santa Ana 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

That’s because the most common quartet seating arrangement has the violist placed opposite the first violinist and, from the audience’s perspective, on the far right. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

This week’s tap specialist, as the hoofers are billed, is Andrew Nemr, whose quartet specializes tap dance percussion. Dance Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

First published years ago, this re-released quartet features charming illustrations and short, simple stories that focus on some of the typical activities of adorable, ethnically diverse babies in a day-care setting. • "Baby Woof Woof!" 'Best Books for Babies' releases 2010 list 2010-04-09T23:02:00Z

Mr. Hall attracted further attention in the early 1960s when Sonny Rollins, a major star returning to music after a long hiatus, chose him to be in his new quartet. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z

He studied civil engineering in high school and music in Rome before serving in the Italian military, where he mostly played the piano and conducted quartets, from 1951 until 1953. Ettore Stratta, Music Producer and Conductor, Dies at 82 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“I feel like it kind of encompasses all of life,” Roberts said of the music, for jazz quartet and orchestra. At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Despite its Brobdingnagian length, the quartet consists of Lilliputian parcels: succinct gestures, tiny shudders, rising and falling melodic cells. Music Review: Ne(x)tworks Quartet Plays Feldman?s Six-Hour Work 2010-04-12T22:43:00Z

Steve Reich's, which is typically done with a single quartet playing against recordings of itself, may loose some pizazz as a 12-string chamber score, simply because strong amplification is part of the composer's sound. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

It simultaneously delights and disappoints, a melodic throwback to the era when Puccini and Strauss were composing, with arias and duets and quartets. `Prima Donna' has US premiere at Brooklyn Academy 2012-02-20T16:57:08Z

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

The Casals' assurance in the E flat quartet D87 was even more impressive. Cuarteto Casals – review 2012-10-11T16:44:30Z

In turn, the quartet has helped shine a light on the influence Harris and the extensive roots underground still exerts. Emmylou, Mumford & Sons team for 'CMT Crossroads' 2012-09-26T21:50:09Z

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

This week's quartet of episodes include a dispensable instalment about Jeff's table football addiction, and a thoroughly indispensable Glee parody, one of the highlights of the show's entire run. TV highlights 17/05/2013 2013-05-17T06:00:06Z

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

The quartet met at the Hotel Bel-Air on a Sunday to discuss it. Carl Gottlieb took a bit out of 'Jaws' script and created a monster hit 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The icon that looks like a barber pole adds three other voices for a barbershop quartet sound, with dominant chords. Robert Taub?s MuseAmi Creates Music Software 2010-08-20T20:25:00Z

Original first violinist Robert Mann dominated the quartet for more than 50 years; his influence, wrote music critic Ted Libbey, was “readily apparent in the ensemble’s sharply chiseled, high-intensity style of playing.” Juilliard String Quartet balances tradition with change 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

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

Started in 1986, the quartet flew a flag of conviction in an insouciant era: First-generation indie rock was on the up, with bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth proposing abstention as rebellion. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

The quartet of soloists are led by Lisa Milne, suitably ecstatic, and by Christopher Maltman, intense and expressive as always. Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross 2011-02-10T22:15:00Z

To judge from Sunday’s elegant performance that album, like the quartet itself, will be an exciting addition to a crowded field. Music Review: Escher String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-11-10T22:37:13Z

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

Zemlinsky is a particularly compelling subject for this kind of treatment, since his quartets were widely spaced over a long period of ferment in the ever-vibrant cultural scene of Vienna. Review: Escher Players Explore Less Familiar Ground: Zemlinsky’s Quartets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Beethoven was completely deaf by this point, and wrote the last two quartets without any prospect of income from them. 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Murray became a lodestar for the underground, earning the Village Voice’s “Musician of the Decade” accolade in 1980 while developing an array of ensembles: duets, quartets, an octet, a big band. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

In the Scherzo, Aizuri’s syncopations were playful yet meticulous while, in the finale, the quartet bided its time, allowing the icy melancholy to melt into radiant sunbeams. In Aizuri Quartet, a natural bond and a captivating performance 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

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 16 tracks on the Muffs eponymous debut confirm the quartet as one the great Los Angeles scream-along punk bands of the 1990s. Throwbacks: Summer reissues of strange surf music, gay proto-punk, 'Robocop' and more

This quartet sounded like the music of a Turkish Bartok. Review: At Summergarden, a Steamy Evening of Exploratory Sounds 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Now, I guess the champagne bars have started to empty in the economic downturn, and our unhappy quartet were due some serious payback sooner or later – but I just wish it had been later. TV Review: Mistresses and Natural World 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z

The openers, Nashville quartet Mona, appear to be aimed at those who can't get to grips with the Kings of Leon's sophistication. Xfm Winter Wonderland ? review 2010-12-16T21:29:01Z

With his fellow Borromeo players, he now reads the late Beethoven quartets directly off a manuscript, which he can display — and mark up — on his screen. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Rodgers said it was unlikely logistics would allow him to get the all-star quartet in the studio together, though. Chic song to feature Elton and Miley 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

“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

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

The strain of overplaying, in terms of volume and tempo, was more pronounced in the first concert, when first violinist Matthew Denton broke a string during the second quartet. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Another band Chatten likes that fixates on Irish things is Girl Band, he said, a Dublin quartet whose song “Um Bongo” revolves around a mundane local street snack. Irish Band Channels the Spirit of Punk, and James Joyce 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

“It was scary, to be honest,” Mr. Pérez said of his early experience in the quartet. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z

The instrumentation is striking: a 15-piece percussion section for “The Libation Bearers,” quartets of both saxophones and its obscure cousin the saxhorn for “The Eumenides,” which lend a marching-band quality to some of the music. CD review: young Icelandic composer’s organic music; Milhaud’s weighty ‘Orestie’

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

This double-sax quartet pays homage to Charlie Parker by cutting up, slowing down and disorganizing his compositions. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

It says something that in more than 40 years, the Chamber Music Society had presented only one of Ginastera’s three quartets before this program. Review: Miró Quartet Looks to the Overlooked Ginastera 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

This week, "Expo 86," by Canadian quartet Wolf Parade, further raises the complicated-rock-by-non-Americans quotient at Sub Pop. Wolf Parade's 'Expo 86' builds slowly to immense crescendo 2010-06-28T23:19:00Z

A standing ovation was inevitable: The audience had been on its feet before the quartet stepped onstage. Country Music Is a Man’s World. The Highwomen Want to Change That. 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Cycles of quartets by Beethoven, Bartók, Shostakovich are now core repertoire. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

Working first in a trio and then a quartet, in both cases with Mr. Haden, they hammered out an elastic, ecstatic mode of discovery that has since become lingua franca within the postbop mainstream. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

Those spotlight moments can appear nearly messianic, but although “Rivulets” contains many solos — along with duets, trios, quartets and myriad other configurations — it is especially concerned with everyone dancing together. Review: A Tere O’Connor Dance That Ebbs, Flows and Weaves 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

“They have such a beautiful, dissonant way of playing,” she said of the quartet, “and I had to find my way live into their world.” Subversive and Smart Scores Raise the Volume in Oscar Talk 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Schram, who joined the quartet later in the project, said that Haydn had been an ideal entree into the group. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

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

The concert ended as it opened, with one of Mr. Wuorinen’s sublime quartet versions of early music. Music Review: Experimental Sounds, Soothed by the Waves 2011-06-05T22:18:42Z

In its latest incarnation under Jan Talich Jr, son of the group's founder, the Talich remains a model of instinctively musical, utterly democratic quartet playing. This is Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets – review 2013-06-20T19:10:00Z

And it’s hard to imagine a better example than the quartet that tenor saxophonist Tedd Baker brought to Bohemian Caverns for the first installment of his month-long Tuesday night residency there. Tedd Baker leads an explosive performance at Bohemian Caverns

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

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

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

This ambitious quartet has, improbably enough, made something of a specialty of it, and are now bringing it to the intimate, newly renovated Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory. Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:13:07Z

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

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

The studio recording of “A Love Supreme” is the most perfected of Coltrane’s studio recordings with the quartet, the one that exemplifies the ideas and aspirations of the group better than any other. Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

While the quartet will disband, its members plan to continue to come together to teach at the Emerson String Quartet Institute, an academic program founded at Stony Brook University in 2017. Celebrated String Quartet Will Disband, Ending 47-Year Run 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The biggest news of the day was of course the new quartet, which lasts 22 minutes and goes through extensive Beethovenian calisthenics. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Ray was the last living member of a “BACH” quartet — writers who transformed science fiction from a pulp magazine ghetto into a genre for hardcover best-sellers. Ray Bradbury, American optimist 2012-06-06T17:45:00Z

Three weeks ago, Vampire Weekend disappointed a few thousand fans when the New York quartet canceled its Marymoor Park performance an hour after it was supposed to start. Vampire Weekend returns to Seattle for a pair of make-up dates 2010-09-16T22:22:00Z

But despite the likable quartet of actors onstage, there is less fun and spontaneity in this musical than its brand name might suggest. Review: ‘Mad Libs Live!,’ a Musical With a Few Missing Pieces 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

This season is devoted to Shostakovich’s 15 quartets; next season the Pacifica will revisit Beethoven’s works. Music Review: Shostakovich Quartets as an Intimate Diary 2010-10-26T20:09:00Z

The Manchester-based quartet really do throw everything, but everything, at their music in a laudable bid to sound unique. Everything Everything: Man Alive 2010-08-26T22:00:00Z

Four Lions is a bumbling picaresque about a quartet of would-be jihadis who hatch a plot to bomb the London Marathon. 'Bin Laden doesn't do jokes' 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

There are other buildings in this selection, including a quartet of similar schoolhouses and a suite of nine homes that range from modified log cabin to the McMansion of its day. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Surely quartets have always been a dime a dozen there. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

"Boyhood" hits universal truths about family, but for this quartet, the 12-year journey of making the movie was a deeply personal experience. What 'Boyhood' cast, director learned about family while filming 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

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

The young quartet mixes slick guitar grooves with well thought-out electronic elements and wonderful vocals, with amazing and highly addictive results. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z

Ferrante’s novel, which preceded her Neapolitan quartet, follows a middle-aged college professor and mother of two grown daughters on a solo vacation, where she is transfixed by a younger mother and her daughter. For her directing debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal adapts Ferrante 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

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

The two quartets represent about eight months of composing. 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

Who would have thought that Bieber's backing singers would resemble a barbershop quartet recruited from the yakuza? Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z

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

Lollapalooza is the first confirmed appearance by the Seattle rock quartet. Soundgarden, Lady Gaga headline Lollapalooza 2010-04-07T03:08:00Z

His play is a series of riffs, some of them pages long, and seemingly improvised duos and trios and quartets. August presence: Joe Turner's Come and Gone and back again 2010-06-15T09:32:00Z

The quartet consistently played to audiences five to 10 times the band’s original peak and made more than $9.5 million in revenue that year. Replacements reunion: Genius or folly? 2013-07-12T18:03:00Z

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

After a reunion tour in 2012, the quartet have been on the road again this year. Reni misses Stone Roses premiere 2013-05-31T09:28:04Z

There's something to be said for the symmetry of your basic rock 'n' roll quartet, of which U2 is the most globally successful and enduring of the past three decades. U2 is still a can-do band, as its first Forum show amply proves 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

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

Playing those — with all the discipline they require in terms of intonation and vibratoless sound — sets a quartet up to tackle the dissonances in a Mozart slow movement. Brooklyn Rider Joins String Quartets Exploring the Nonclassical 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Ten years ago, shortly after moving to London, following a spell with her father in Carlisle, she fronted indie quartet La Honda. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z

What follows is a poignant quartet of linked novellas: one for each sibling as an adult. Review | Does living forever sound ideal? These 5 new books will change your mind. 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

He led a series of successful small groups, including a trio and a quartet that both featured his longtime collaborator, the drummer Billy Higgins. Cedar Walton, Pianist and Composer, Dies at 79 2013-08-21T02:40:40Z

The music to listen to while reading Philip Roth’s “Indignation,” if you can bear to use it as background music, is Beethoven’s last quartet, his sixteenth, in F Major, Opus 135, his final completed composition. A Sterilized Philip Roth Adaptation 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

The band’s well-received “red” album, as Dobson considers it due to its “brooding, frenetic” nature, etched their place as Seattle rock favorites and the quartet quickly returned to the studio to work on the follow-up. Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson carries the ‘Impossible Weight’ on Seattle rockers’ radiant new album 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

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

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

In the program notes, Mr. Chiu compared the challenge of performing the quartet to typing on a keyboard positioned a foot higher than normal for six hours. Music Review: A Marathon Performance (Aches, Too) 2014-04-29T21:11:41Z

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

As hardliners on the left and right, gun nuts and bleeding-heart activists, confrontation is baked into the very premise of this new quartet. Who is America? Sacha Baron Cohen's new show aims high but goes low 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

For “Dreamhouse,” the New York Philharmonic shared the stage with a fine quartet of singers from Synergy Vocals and the oddly low-key Catch Electric Guitar Quartet from the Netherlands. NY Phil Biennial Offers Themes of Mining and Building 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

When Cohen played Jazz PT with a quartet in 2013, she did one tune in the rhythmically lively Brazilian style called choro, which often features clarinet and has some of the jauntiness of early jazz. Heading to Jazz Port Townsend? Be sure to catch top-tier clarinetist Anat Cohen 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Dozens of tuxedo-clad musicians began picketing Monday morning at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in downtown Detroit, as a French horn quartet played in the background. Detroit symphony musicians set to strike Monday 2010-10-04T13:50:00Z

His recordings with the Juilliard Quartet include the complete Bartok quartets for the Columbia label. Arthur Winograd, Hartford Symphony Music Director, Dies at 90 2010-04-28T02:53:00Z

Slowly, however, his quartet brought a Saturday-night Kennedy Center audience around to its way of doing things. Pedrito Martinez gets Kennedy Center crowd’s appreciation to appear in its feet 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

When or whether the world learns the new owner, or if the viola lands in a quartet, will remain to be heard. A $45 Million Viola? The World's Newest Most-Expensive Instrument 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Presented by Arts Emerson in Boston, Watts appeared alongside members of the New England Conservatory Orchestra and players from Shorter’s long-running jazz quartet. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

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

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

But on this April day, he had something specific to discuss: a career-spanning show at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday with his own trio, quartet and octet to celebrate his 85th birthday. At 85, the Jazz Bassist Ron Carter Still Seeks ‘A Better Order of Notes’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

A program of just two piano quartets may be more than a musical appetizer, but it isn’t quite a full meal, either. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

And he recorded albums as a leader, beginning with “Deep in a Dream,” released in 1955 on Savoy, on which he led a jazz quartet featuring Hank Jones on piano. Al Caiola, Guitarist Who Played Hit TV Themes, Dies at 96 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

A night of silent prayer and meditation will follow a half-hour performance by an all-male vocal quartet. Heralding a Joyous Spring 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

It involves a star chanteuse, a star danseuse, a male vocal quartet, changing scenery, a dance company and orchestra — a concatenation requiring conditions that will seldom fit into most dance seasons. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z

The quartet played attentively, poised or just harsh enough, savoring the suspense; none of the new pieces overstayed. Review: Julia Holter and the Spektral Quartet in the Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The quartet worked their way through several familiar tropes of improvised comedy in confident fashion and managed to keep the advertised product at the forefront of the action throughout. The risky business of using a live broadcast to plug a product 2013-06-19T10:51:51Z

In practice, this provided a buzzing electronic sheen to the three quartets with the loudspeakers seeming like aliens trying to mimic the language that violins, violas and cellos make. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Eanet will spend next season with the quartet while a replacement is sought. First Violinist Resigns From the Juilliard String Quartet 2010-06-29T19:12:00Z

Her Wright-inspired creations include window silhouette earrings, a window quartet necklace and double petal flower earrings. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

First in her tremendous panorama “Invisible Line,” and then in the dramatic “Mogamma” quartet, she eliminated the orbital axis that structured her early works. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

In the singles chart, quartet Clean Bandit held the top spot for a second week with Rather Be. You Me At Six tops UK album chart 2014-02-03T10:04:32Z

Mr. Kitchen said that when his quartet workshops a new piece with the composer, changes are sometimes made on the spot and shared wirelessly with the players. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

More recently the New York quartet Ethel has emerged as a true heir in its omnivorous appetites, collaborative breadth and creative use of multimedia. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z

In between are the Classical and Romantic periods; “Traveler’s Prayer,” however inadvertently, flirts with that territory in its treatment of the strings, as wisely beautiful and spare as anything in Beethoven’s late quartets. Steve Reich, Busy as Ever, Enters His Late Period 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

The quartet members said they are looking forward to the Haas performance at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Four Guys Named JACK 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

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

The Dover is superb, among the best young quartets today. Recording review: Dover Quartet’s homage to its mentors 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

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

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

“Dancing Around the Bride” captures this mood too, but it has a complicated story to tell, a layered tale of accidental meetings, vital exchanges of information and crucial harmonizing — in duos, trios, quartets, a quintet. Art Review: ‘Dancing Around the Bride,’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-12-06T23:01:56Z

They're accompanied by a vigorous quartet of suited men representing death; the music is Schubert's Death and the Maiden. Nederlands Dans Theater 2010-07-07T20:45:00Z

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

There are melodies that befit opulent operatic voices, as well as trios and quartets in which individual characters voice their inner thoughts. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z

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

Mr. Adams’s quartet was part of a fascinating concert presented by the American Music Project, a new nonprofit that was making its New York debut. Review: JACK Quartet and Anthony McGill Perform a Menu of American Delicacies 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

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

In the quartet of vertically oriented prints, the sky goes from empty to full to dark, but the light is always compelling. In the galleries: Playful piece will keep you on your toes at Flashpoint Gallery 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

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

The quartet appeared determined to dispel the conventional view of Mendelssohn as a purveyor of genteel, well-mannered compositions with a robust reading of the String Quartet in E Minor, Op. Escher String Quartet takes an aggressive approach to chamber music 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

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

It was an outfit steeped in certain aspects of free jazz and fusion, but also an acoustic quartet given to playing standards, often with a driving sense of swing. Music Review: Band?s Rapport Runs Deep, and the Undertow Swings 2011-02-23T22:59:31Z

And the set he played with his new Cuban quartet on Friday felt statesmanlike, for better and sometimes for worse: a lofty demonstration, tune by tune, of one culture’s talking to another. Music Review: A Cultural Conversation Through Jazz 2010-10-25T22:35:00Z

At the Austrian Cultural Forum the quartet put its modernist side on display. Music Review: Capturing Shifts Between Ecstasy and Anguish 2011-01-18T23:32:38Z

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

Researchers tracked these quartets over time, and they found that the best-achieving woman served as a “shining light” for her roommates. Why are men so foolish? 2013-02-17T18:00:00Z

The quartet offered a coherent vision of the work’s large-scale architecture, violent emotional arcs and cosmic sense of struggle. Emerson String Quartet at Baird Auditorium masters the ‘Art of Fugue’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

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

“We learn more interesting techniques as a quartet than we would in an orchestra and have more authority to make artistic decisions,” Kate Stenberg, a violinist with the Del Sol String Quartet, said. The Bay Citizen: String Quartets Thriving on Bay Area Arts Scene 2010-12-10T04:10:00Z

As response pieces go, this one reflects less on the quartet — though nods to it abound, as in a version of Schubert’s long-short-short rhythm — and more on the original song. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

A fundamental problem was the concert’s basic quartet. Music Review: Feinstein Hosts ‘Sweet & Low Down’ at the Allen Room 2012-06-07T20:27:24Z

The quartet played the relentlessly gorgeous central slow movement with subtle attention to detail. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-22T20:42:33Z

The run will mark the first time the members of the popular quartet . ArtsBeat: Il Divo Is Coming to Broadway 2013-09-04T22:46:40Z

The Irish band debuted in the mid-'70s with incendiary singles such as "Suspect Device" and "Alternative Ulster," and under founding member Jake Burns, the quartet's recent material remains vital. Riot Fest only seems like it has every band in America 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

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

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

"They drink much less and they are a good deal less promiscuous than they have been in the past," says executive producer Lucy Bedford of the glamorous quartet. Will we still love Mistresses if the gloss has worn off? 2010-08-05T11:38:00Z

The quartet then became a trio after Fimbres announced her departure following the conclusion of a comeback tour. Aubrey O'Day, Shannon Bex rise from Danity Kane's ashes to form dumblonde 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

In a collaboration with the dance organization Movement Art Is, this reliably innovative percussion quartet will continue to refresh its repertory. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

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

It was blown by a barbershop quartet named the Gentlemen’s Agreement. A Reluctant Teenager, a Barbershop Quartet, and a Revelation 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Young Concert Artists and the French Institute Alliance Française presented the quartet in a concert Wednesday evening in Gould Hall. Music Review: Swirling Tensions, Surging Passions 2011-04-22T21:55:45Z

For the rest, the Aizuri is a skillful, accomplished quartet, but it needs to learn to work a room better. Shaw’s terrific ‘Blueprint’ felt too short 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Though everything about the show was predictable, from her three costume changes to the quartet of shirtless male dancers huffing and puffing around her, it was solidly entertaining. Alexandra Burke ? review 2011-02-11T18:04:26Z

The string quartet scene, too, buzzes with crossover energy. Brooklyn Rider Joins String Quartets Exploring the Nonclassical 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Jon Klassen showed this in his lauded Hat Trilogy, and so do a barbershop quartet of new books with wildly different tones. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

In 1972, Mr. Shaw moved to Paris as part of a quartet led by Mr. Lake. Charles Bobo Shaw, Avant-Garde Jazz Drummer, Dies at 69 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The chorus of 12 was deployed in three quartets that moved independently around the altar space, often making close contact with the audience in this intimate setting, singing separately, or combining for full effect. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

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

The show also retains its core dynamic, the hermetic, supportive-suffocating friendships among the quartet. Review: The World Changed. NBC’s ‘Will & Grace’ Hasn’t. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Music director Anthony Lucca, who also helms the live quartet, ingeniously wrangles the cast’s disparate voices and Sondheim’s challenging score into a tuneful whole. Ambitious 'Assassins' at Pico Playhouse can't overcome the show's peculiarities 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

On his first quartet album, Mr. Taborn’s piano can dance and nearly catch fire without ever losing its poise. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

That trend continued Sunday afternoon at the National Gallery of Art, but the reverberant acoustics of the museum’s East Garden Court didn’t flatter the refined sound of this excellent quartet, formed in 2002. Review | National Gallery’s East Garden Court doesn’t do any favors for Parker Quartet 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

The quartet repeated itself several times throughout the day. On a Windjammer cruise in Maine, passengers knit a seaworthy yarn 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

“I don’t even think of it as a cycle,” Mr. Segnitz said of the quartets in a telephone interview. Players Are Wanted for Ben Johnston’s Works. Some Sacrifice Is Required. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

The Saturday program is co-ed: Clara Schumann’s Trio is the heart of the program, and the violist Andrew Gonzalez joins the group for piano quartets by Robert Schumann and Mozart. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

Relationships within the quartet become strained; will they ever make beautiful music again? 'A Late Quartet': beautiful music, dissonant relationships 2012-11-08T21:07:04Z