Contact information
Name:
Hollis Ashby
Phone:
(610) 330-5065
Email:
ashbyh@lafayette.edu
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When:
Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
Williams Center for the Arts
Presenter:
Williams Center for the Arts
Price:
$35 general public; $6 youth and non-Lafayette students with valid ID; Lafayette students: free, faculty/staff: $10
Few ensembles have achieved the stature of the Emerson String Quartet, one of the most celebrated of all time. “For precision and unanimity it is second to none…so perfectly in tune that it [is] almost uncanny,” attests London’s Financial Times. Along with the insightful musicians of the Escher String Quartet, this estimable force takes command of an infrequently performed repertoire, with Mendelssohn’s genre-defining Octet for Strings as its centerpiece. The occasion offers all the more reason to applaud: after 47 superb seasons, the distinguished Emerson takes its final bow in summer 2023.
Program: Bruckner / String Quintet in F major (Adagio) // Strauss / Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85 // Shostakovich / String Octet, Op. 11 // Mendelssohn / String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
The Josephine Chidsey Williams Fund Concert
Sponsored by:
Williams Center for the Arts