String Quartet in A, "Brilliant"/Prelude to a Fugue/Quartet,...

Fanfare;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A, "Brilliant." Prelude to a...composer's "Forgotten Works for String Quartet." That most of the music here is...on this disc were intended for string quartet, and/or that all of this material...

The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet.(Book Review)

Notes;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Edited by Robin Stowell. (Cambridge...bibliography, index. A volume on the string quartet is the latest contribution to the Cambridge...areas: the changing social role of the string quartet and organological developments; a history...

ALEXANDER STRING QUARTET TO PERFORM SHOSTAKOVICH QUARTET CYCLE AT BARUCH...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 5, 2006 ;     445 words ......following news release: The Alexander String Quartet will commemorate the upcoming centennial...with a performance of the composer's String Quartet Cycle. The acclaimed ensemble, this...The performance of the Shostakovich String Quartet Cycle is the centerpiece of the Spring...

Sunshine Polka. "Alliance" Waltz. 3 Songs without Words. Birthday March....

Fanfare;  September 1, 2007 ;     555 words ......Words. Birthday March. Romance in d. String Quartet in F (before 1897): fragment. Gavotte...for Strings. Toter Winkel: fragment. String Quartet d (1904): six fragments. String Quartet in C (after 1904): fragment. String Quintet...

YOUNG STRING QUARTET FINDS HARMONY IN MUSIC AND ONE ANOTHER

The Boston Globe;  November 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Listening to a great string quartet is a paramount musical experience...that the members of the Jupiter String Quartet are taking right now, and the...England Conservatory's Professional String Quartet Training Program, has played...

MUIR STRING QUARTET IN SEASON FINALE APPEARANCE AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 21, 2007 ;     268 words ......the following press release: The Muir String Quartet, whose performances have become a popular...2006-07 season, Muir will perform Haydn's String Quartet Op. 33, No. 3; Berg's String Quartet Op. 3; and Schumann's String Quartet No...

SO YOU WANT TO BE IN A STRING QUARTET?

Strings;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......plays a phrase from Henri Dutilleux's String Quartet with all her heart, while the three...in NEC's Training in the Art of the String Quartet program. Founded by master teacher...s footsteps this fall, the Jupiter String Quartet, which just completed a year as one...

Cypress String Quartet happy to pluck new music

Albuquerque Journal;  June 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn. The Cypress String Quartet plays their music, but it also tosses...The ensemble will play Tsontakis's String Quartet No. 5, which it commissioned and recently...Simms Performing Arts Center. Cypress String Quartet 7:30 p.m. Friday. Franz Joseph Haydn...

Chamber jazz makes us rethink string quartet music

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 4, 1989 ;     459 words ......Not only did the Turtle Island String Quartet, the second group in the series...us rethink such common terms as string quartet and chamber music. According to standard usage, a string quartet is a collection of four classically...

Tokyo String Quartet

Tennessee TRIBUNE, The;  January 22, 1997 ;     527 words ......TRIBUNE, The 01-22-1997 Tokyo String Quartet. (Nashville, TN) -- The Tennessee...TPAC's Polk Theater the Tokyo String Quartet, for one performance, 8 p.m., Friday, January 24. The Tokyo String Quartet is one of the supreme chamber...

Siegmund Nissel; Violinist For Amadeus String Quartet

The Washington Post;  May 23, 2008 ;     569 words ......German-born violinist with the Amadeus String Quartet, a much-recorded and admired chamber...rounded out the group. The Amadeus String Quartet gave more than 4,000 concerts and made...the group performed as the Brainin String Quartet. But a few days before its London debut...

TAKACS STRING QUARTET MASTERFUL, BEAUTIFUL.(LIFESTYLE)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  October 4, 2004 ;     436 words ......Lynch The Capital Times A masterful string quartet demonstrated the art at its highest...quirkiness, beauty and majesty. The Takacs String Quartet looks on top of the world with its...for the two-thirds house. The Bartok String Quartet No. 3 is high-protein greatness boiled...

BUCKNELL HOSTS FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 12, 2006 ;     435 words ......release: Britain's acclaimed Fitzwilliam String Quartet will be in residence at Bucknell University...Jan. 31, at 8 p.m., will include the String Quartet in B flat major (1865) by Tchaikovsky...all-Shostakovich concert, including the String Quartet No. 10, the Sonata for Viola and ...

String Fever: In the Miro String Quartet, youth and lusty playing rush...

Coast Weekly;  March 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the depiction of the ship's resident string quartet. Even as chaos rages around them, the...the sinking ship, reminds us that the string quartet is at heart a musical conversation...decline. On Friday, the celebrated Miro String Quartet, a youthful American group the Los...

San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Richard Scheinin column: String quartet is...

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);  March 6, 2007 ;     633 words ......Stravinsky composed his Concertino for String Quartet, seven wicked minutes of rhythmic assaults...Friday's performance by the Borromeo String Quartet at Stanford University, it felt like...better. It continued with Bela Bartok's String Quartet No. 5, composed in 1934 and seeming...