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The Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet String quartet For the Record… Selected discography Sources Since its debut in 1973, the Kronos Quartet has carved out its own niche in the world of string quartets. In its self-proclaimed role as a champion of new music, the quartet exclusively plays works of... Read more |
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Emerson String Quartet
Emerson String Quartet Chamber music ensemble For the Record… Accomplished.... Read more |
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Four Quartets
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William Primrose
William Primrose 1904-82, Scottish-American violist. After studying in London, and with Eugène Ysaÿe , he played with the London String Quartet (1930-35) and the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937-42). In 1939 he formed his own quartet. As a soloist he ranked among the world's outstanding... Read more |
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scherzo
scherzo [Ital.,=joke], in music, term denoting various types of composition, primarily one that is lively and presents surprises in the rhythmic or melodic material. In 1607 a group of light pieces for voice were published by Monteverdi as scherzi musicali. In the symphonies and string quartets... Read more |
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Ruth Crawford
Ruth Crawford 1901-53, American composer, b. East Liverpool, Ohio. Crawford attended music schools in Jacksonville, Fla., and Chicago. Her most frequently performed composition is a string quartet (1931). She also collected and published American folk music with her husband, the musicologist and... Read more |
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Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello , 1740-1816, Italian composer. Paisiello served in St. Petersburg at the court of Catherine II from 1776 to 1784. He was also briefly Napoleon's maître de chapelle. Paisiello composed some 100 operas, church music, keyboard concertos, string quartets, and other works. His... Read more |
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David Diamond
David Diamond 1915-2005, American composer, b. Rochester, N.Y. Diamond was trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School; he also studied with Roger Sessions in New York and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He composed in a variety of styles, beginning with neoclassical works in the... Read more |
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William Schuman
William Schuman , 1910-92, American composer, b. New York City. Schuman taught at Sarah Lawrence College (1935-45) and was twice a Guggenheim Fellow (1939 and 1940). While president of the Juilliard School of Music (1945-62) he helped initiate the Juilliard Quartet. He was also president of Lincoln... Read more |
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Far-reaching display by Juilliard Quartet
...the Juilliard String Quartet has prided itself...Theatre where the Juilliard offered unrivaled...sumptuous Verdi and an authoritative...favorites, the Juilliard attracted a...opened with Verdi's sole ... |
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PERFORMING ARTS
...still some minor quibbling...Pieces for String Quartet, followed by Verdi's String...Bartok's Quartet No. 6...Alban Berg, Juilliard and Emerson quartets, the group...work. The ... |
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Classical continuity
...says Juilliard Quartet violist...lovers, the Juilliard Quartet is a household...one of the quartets people know...Krosnick. The quartet has garnered...form of a string quartet...opera world, ... |
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PERFORMANCES TO FEATURE TENOR FERGUSON, VOGLER STRING QUARTET
...the Vogler String Quartet and...Berlin, the quartet first attained...International String Quartet Competition...produced the quartet's first CD...Shostakovich and Verdi, as well...complete ... |
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Good Things Come in Fours; Peter Maxwell Davies Serves Up Quartets
...cycle of 10 string quartets. This is...a string quartet, let alone...excellent Maggini Quartet. The music...s later quartets were once...s Naxos Quartets are now...major string ... |
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LINE-UP STELLAR FOR LUNCHTIME CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES.(DAILY BREAK)
...members of the Juilliard and Emerson quartets. Toby Hoffman...Orchestra. Miami String Quartet. One of the...the Orion String Quartet...New World String Quartet...Symphony in ... |
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OPERA MAN ; TIM KENNEDY BRINGS VERDI TO ROCKWELL HALL
...production of Verdi's masterpiece...student at Juilliard, he wanted to form a string quartet. "I felt...played in a quartet. "When I...Beethoven quartets." It has...the Emerson Quartet - - and in...No. 4 in ... |
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The stars come out to play at Ravinia Festival Top conductors on tap this year
...arrangement of Brahms' G Minor Piano Quartet. The death of Verdi in 1901 is classical...and soloists in the Verdi Requiem on June 30...music recital with the Juilliard String Quartet in the Martin...and the ... |
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CLASSICAL MUSIC GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
...Dubosc, Bastin. Verdi, "Attila," Riccardo...Violin Concerto in A Minor Op. 82. Paul Crossley...Violin Sonatas. Kronos Quartet: Crumb, "Black Angels...Shostakovich, Quartet No. 8. Juilliard String Quartet, ... |
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PREMIERES AND FAVORITE 'PATHETIQUE'.(TimeOut)
...movements from "Quartet for the End of...free. * The famed Juilliard String Quartet performs for Chamber...Hear Mozart's Quartet in G Major, K...Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op.131. Tickets...week's opera is ... |