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Parker
Quartet
Sunday
November 8, 2015
4:00
PM
Sweeney Concert Hall
Smith College
Northampton,
MA
Program
BEETHOVEN: Quartet No. 11 in
F
Minor, Op. 95
"Serioso"
AUGUSTA
READ THOMAS: Helix Spirals
SCHUMANN:
Quartet in A Minor,
Op.
41 No. 1
To
hear a musical clip of the Parker Quartet:
recordings
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Photo
credit Jamie Jung
"Quartet
playing is supposed to be hard: these four players made
it seem easy. They made the audience smile and nod in
response to their obvious delight in the music and in
performing. Constantly in touch with each other, they
moved and breathed as one beautifully musical organism.
Imbued with their strong rhythmic sense, the music of
every piece flowed and ebbed with grace. There were
four individual players on stage, each one a strong
personality, but as in all great chamber groups, they
created the effect of being one."
--The
Boston Musical Intelligencer
"...the
group thrives on combinations of intricacy and power.
Their touchstones are precision and an assiduously cultivated
blend of sound focused and wiry at its core and, whatever
the style, so well matched that it can be
difficult to tell where one instrument leaves off and
another begins."
--Boston
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