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Emerson String Quartet
-featuring a World Premiere by Bright Sheng
Thursday, October 18, 2007
at 8:00 pm
Recital Hall - $42
“What an extraordinary privilege it is for Stony Brook University to have the Emerson String Quartet in residence—teaching, giving master classes and, best of all, performing in the Staller Center’s Recital Hall,” noted Peter Goodman in a 2007 Newsday review.
The Emerson String Quartet serves as Quartet-in-Residence at Stony Brook University where, in addition to chamber music coaching throughout the academic year, they conduct intensive string quartet workshops. Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer alternate in the first chair position and are joined by violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David Finckel.
The Quartet’s first concert of the season will include the World Premiere of a composition commissioned by Stony Brook by the distinguished composer Bright Sheng, whose work draws on late 20th century contemporary ideas, the folk music of China and the surrounding Silk Road region. Also on the program is Haydn String Quartet in C, Op. 20 No. 2 and Beethoven String Quartet in F, Op. 59 No. 1.
A free-pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm is planned.
(Program subject to change)
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