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Tokyo Quartet strings together Beethoven series

Chicago Sun-Times | August 23, 1987 | Copyright

Winter usually is Chicago's high season for chamber music. Audiences routinely brave cold, harsh weather to hear small ensembles play in intimate halls such as the Civic Theatre or churches.

But August has been a notable month for chamber music in Chicago.

Leningrad's distinguished Taneyev Quartet made a surprise stop at the Art Institute's Fullerton Hall, thanks to local impresario Geraldine Freund. And this week at Ravinia the Tokyo String Quartet will begin a six-concert series of Beethoven's complete string quartets. The concerts will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30,…

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