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Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzuco
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
Thursday, October 6, 2011
8:00 p.m.
Pre-Concert Lecture
7:00 p.m.
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Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
Eugene Drucker, violin
Phil Setzer, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
David Finckel, cello
Program
BEETHOVEN Quartet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 127
BARBER Adagio from String Quartet, Op. 11
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet for Strings No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 92
About the Emerson Quartet
“America’s greatest quartet” (Time Magazine), named for the 19th Century American philosopher, has captured nine Grammies, three Gramophone Awards and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize, and prompted the Times of London to opine, “with musicians like this there must be some hope for humanity.” Their season-opening concert features works that are among the most [moving] provocative that humanity has ever produced. The first of Beethoven’s legendary late string quartets launches our season-long tribute to a composer whose music is still considered radical. Following Barber’s astonishingly moving anthem (as originally written) comes a brilliant quartet by Shostakovich, who knew something of Beethoven’s pain and anguish. With Soviet authorities turning a deaf ear to his genius, he saved his most private utterances for quartets he wasn’t sure would ever be heard in public. On that score, happily, he was wrong.
This concert will be part of "Memory And The Work of Art," a community-wide festival exploring how the arts shape collective and cultural memory and condition our knowledge of the past. For more information, visit their website.