As the capacity audience streamed into Meany Theater on Wednesday evening, there was a whiff of pilgrimage about the proceedings. This was no mere concert; this was the world’s most highly regarded ...
From Banff wins to Stanford Live, the Poiesis Quartet challenges classical music norms with queer identity and ...
MINNEAPOLIS — As string quartets go, this one has done a lot. Recorded with Belle and Sebastian and fellow indie-rock darlings Lucius. Shared the stage with Father John Misty and Semisonic. Appeared ...
Bored with standard string quartet offerings, they put on a show that includes music from Radiohead's guitarist Jonny ...
The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès. By Joshua Barone The group returned to Zankel Hall for the ...
The versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...
Until recently, a resident string quartet in Birmingham was elusive. With Tuesday’s debut of the Samford String Quartet, and reports of another quartet forming from the Alabama Symphony ranks, that ...
In the thirty-page booklet that accompanies Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartets Nos. 1-12, the trumpeter & composer devotes a few paragraphs to the subject of inspiration. He traces an irregular line ...
An abundance of facial hair is not restricted to the sensitive male indie-rocker set. Three of the four players in the Danish String Quartet could easily pass for hipster Brooklyn beard farmers. "We ...
The Emerson String Quartet, a mild-mannered foursome that for 45 years has dominated its genre with playing that ranges from tripping elegance to brutal stomp, is closing up shop. Not immediately, of ...