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The players showed consummate skill in Beethoven's final string quartet and virtuosic enthusiasm in new music from Jeff Scott.
Read More »Concert Review: Poiesis Quartet Plays Beethoven and a Jeff Scott Premiere
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Interview: Composer Jeff Scott on the NYC Premiere of ‘Tapestry of the Beloved Beatified’
"Each of these four figures, Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Jeanne Manford, and Xulhaz Mannan, carried a kind of radical tenderness into a world that often met them with hostility."
Read More »Concert Review: Dover Quartet at Peoples’ Symphony Concerts – Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bacewicz
The Dover Quartet brought fervor and excitement to music both familiar and not-so-familiar, including a string quartet by the great 20th-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.
Read More »Music Review: Lei Liang – ‘String Quartets: Live’
Inspired by the music of Mongolia and Taiwan, these pieces feature the Brentano, JACK, Formosa, and Mivos quartets.
Read More »Concert Review: Isidore String Quartet, Anthony McGill – Beethoven, Brahms, and a James Lee III World Premiere
This was of the most satisfying chamber music performances I've experienced in NYC this year.
Read More »Concert Review: ‘Beethoven and Bluegrass’ with Mark O’Connor, Maggie O’Connor, Vega Quartet
Mark O'Connor's compositions made the juxtaposition of styles and centuries work smoothly, and created a joyful concert experience.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Peoples’ Symphony Concerts Presents the Dover Quartet with Mozart, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky
The eminent Dover Quartet delivered musical thrills, infusing the auditorium with youthful energy.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Death of Classical, NOVUS Bring ‘America’ to Crypt at St. John the Divine
The musicians of NOVUS interposed works by contemporary American composers between movements of Dvořák's "American" String Quartet.
Read More »Concert Review: Cassatt String Quartet with Trombonist Haim Avitsur
The Cassatt Quartet played Beethoven, Victoria Bond, and works by Joan Tower and Adolphus Hailstork for the unconventional pairing of trombone and string quartet.
Read More »Music Preview NYC: Beethoven, Shostakovich and More from Ariel Quartet, Philippe Quint, Marc-André Hamelin and Sergey Antonov
The Aspect Chamber Music Series presents the Ariel Quartet with music of Beethoven, and Philippe Quint, Marc-Andre Hamelin, and Sergey Antonov with Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
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