Almost any day of the week, you can catch a string quartet performing in New York.
Here it's augmented by a string quartet, a horn section featuring free-jazz players, and a choir.
Arnold Steinhardt has been the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet for 42 years.
Originally composed as the last movement of his String Quartet Op. 130, it now towers alone.
The final string quartet piece, Todesfuge-Frieze 4, encapsulates the expressive world of the whole work.
The work interleaves nine pieces for string quartet with nine settings of the poetry of Paul Celan.
Arnalds recorded the songs at his home studio with a string quartet, layering the pieces with subtle electronic accents.
In some way, says violinist Arnold Steinhardt, a string quartet is just like any other business with four equal partners.
These wines appeal to those who prefer the delicate tones of a string quartet to the bombast of a Beethoven symphony.
The Escher String Quartet's performance not only showed off its sound, but also whetted appetites for more performances in WNYC's new digs.
Onstage, things doubled up with the Uptown String Quartet, featuring Roach's daughter Maxine, Clark Terry's nieces Lesa and Zela, and Diane Monroe.
But the real test dispelling forever any concern I may have had is in Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F.
' That moment resembles the tragic section in his Opus 132 String Quartet where the violin tries to sing in a choked voice.
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Mr Zygmuntowicz, who has also made instruments for Joshua Bell and the Emerson String Quartet, is rated as one of the best violin-makers alive.
Two of the Haas works "Four Songs on Chinese Poetry for Voice and Piano" and the second String Quartet, "From the Monkey Mountains" have been hailed as masterpieces.
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The members of the Audubon Quartet, a top string quartet, have been ordered to pay over half a million dollars to one of their former colleagues.
Unlike many string quartets, whose names seem chosen at random, Escher String Quartet has a musical basis for its moniker: The group was inspired by M.
It's the same passion that drives Alisa, who I understand her grandmother made her a string quartet out of cereal boxes when she was a little girl.
In classics, it has the great Universal Classics catalog, meaning recordings by artists like Herbert Von Karajan, Maurizio Pollini, the Emerson String Quartet, and other best-in-the-world acts.
So after weeks of test runs and fine-tuning, Soundcheck christened the space on air when the up-and-coming Escher String Quartet stopped by to perform a couple of pieces.
He's also a largely self-taught pianist and a powerhouse player at that and composer for string quartet, theatre, film, orchestra, spoken-word multimedia, free improvisation, ESPN commercials, etc.
The Icelandic band Amiina has worked as a string quartet supporting Sigur Ros, but while their music shares roots with their geographic counterparts, the resulting blooms are startlingly different.
Mr Carter's own voice did not crystallise until he was in his 40s, in the intensely dramatic Cello Sonata, completed in 1948, and even more startlingly in his First String Quartet of 1951.
Mr. STEINHARDT: I don't know that this is any different in a string quartet than it would be, let's say, with four people who are running a business of one kind or another.
The group kicked off the session with a live performance of the finale from Dvorak's "American" String Quartet, a staple of the chamber-music repertoire that sounded fresh in this young group's hands.
All things by turns and nothing long, Mr Bates delights in a welter of reference jazz licks intersected by rap, synthesizer, string quartet, surreal vocals the overall sense is that anything can and should happen.
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On weekends, there are dance and music performances and films -- this month, catch "La Nave de los Monstruos" ("The Monsters' Ship"), a Mexican sci-fi classic, with music by postclassical string quartet Ethel.
About 12 years ago she acted on her dream of learning to play the cello (she had been proficient on the piano) and now is a member of two amateur orchestras and a string quartet.
Also notice the deep commitment to the personal and profound intimacy of Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 2, still a sleeper, waiting for our attention to turn from music that makes bigger noises and demands.
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