String quartets are among the hardiest and most adaptable of musical organisms. As mobile as rock bands, in some ways even more so, they can appear, do their thing, and slip away into the night. Small ...

‘Some of the most extraordinarily gawky music that [Mozart], so rarely in the slightest awkward, ever wrote.’ Thus Paul Griffiths (The String Quartet: A History; Thames and Hudson: 1983) on the six ...

This week it's string quartets by Native American Composers Jerod Tate, Michael Begay, and more. Everyone has an album they heard when young that influences them for life. For Chickasaw composer Jarod ...

Programming as a deliberate act of considering who sets the forward momentum for the growth of composing came forward with abundant largesse on November 6, 2024, at the Indiana History Center, as part ...

Tucson officially became a footnote in the storied career of the Florida-based Amernet String Quartet. On Sunday afternoon, before a full house at the University of Arizona-area Grace St. Paul’s ...

Pairing John Adams' first and only String Quartet (2008) with Beethoven's Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 - his next-to-last, after writing quartets throughout his adult career - was, at the ...

The Emerson String Quartet is one of the world's blue-chip chamber groups, so perhaps it wasn't a surprise that it turned in a superb and often deeply involving performance on Saturday night at the ...