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Emerson String Quartet Friday, October 17, 2003 at 8:00 pm Recital Hall - $33 Emerson String Quartet has been called "the most exciting American string quartet of its generation" (The New York Times) and Stony Brook University is fortunate to have them as Quartet-in-Residence in the Department of Music. Their first concert will be an all-Mendelssohn program: Mendelssohn Pieces for String Quartet Op. 81, Fugue and Toccata, Andante and Scherzo; String Quartet No. 5 in E flat Major Op. 44 #3; String Quartet No. 4 in E minor Op. 44 #2. The quartet includes Eugene Drucker, violin; Philip Setzer, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; and David Finckel, cello.Their extensive recordings have been on Deutsche Grammophon since 1987. For over 25 years, their perceptive and expressive performances have taken them to leading concert halls the world over.