American String Quartet To Play Schwab Auditorium October 21st
10/02/2008 8:17 am
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Violist Timothy Deighton, an associate professor of music at Penn State, teams with the New York City-based American String Quartet to perform Brahms' Quintet in F Major, Spring, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, in Penn State’s Schwab Auditorium, University Park. The program also includes the quartet performing Mozart's Quintet No. 3 in C Major and Alban Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3.
Tickets for the Center for the Performing Arts presentation are $32 for adults, $15 for University Park students and $25 for people 18 and younger. Buy tickets online at www.cpa.psu.edu or by phone at (814) 863-0255. Outside the local calling area, dial (800) ARTS-TIX. Tickets are available at four State College locations: Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Tickets Downtown, HUB-Robeson Center and Bryce Jordan Center.
Last season at Penn State, the quartet and Deighton came together for the first time to perform Brahms’ other quintet.
The quartet members are renowned collaborative musicians, but violinists Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney, violist Daniel Avshalomov, and cellist Wolfram Koessel also are educators, innovators, champions of new music, soloists and more.
The ensemble has been the resident quartet at the Aspen Music Festival since 1974 and the Manhattan School of Music since 1984. The quartet's activities also have included numerous international radio and television broadcasts, tours of Asia and performances with the New York City ballet, the Montreal Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
The presentation of the Berg quartet, a groundbreaking work composed in 1910, is part of the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities 2008–2009 Moments of Change multidisciplinary initiative "Astonish Me! The Turn of the 20th Century (1889–1914)." For information on Moments of Change, visit www.research.psu.edu/iah .
Artistic Viewpoints, an informal moderated discussion featuring a visiting artist, is offered in Schwab Auditorium one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders.
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