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Emerson String Quartet
Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 8:00
Recital Hall - $34
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In 2004 the Emerson String Quartet toured Europe and Asia and celebrated its twenty-fifth consecutive season at the Smithsonian Institution. Staller Center for the Arts hosts the second concert this year to be performed by the Emersons, one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles. The Quartet took its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer alternate first chair position and are joined by violist Lawrence Dutton, and cellist David Finckel. This evening’s performance will include Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E flat, op. 12, Joan Tower’s “Incandescent” (2002); and Beethoven’s Quartet in E flat, op. 74 (“Harp”). Of the Emerson String Quartet’s six Grammy Awards, one is for the complete quartets of Beethoven.
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