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Live Music: Classical

7:30 PM

The Emerson String Quartet is as good as it gets. The quartet—renowned for its intensity, integrity, energy, and commitment—has released thirty recordings with Deutsche Grammophon since 1987, performed in all of the world’s musical capitals, won the coveted Avery Fisher Prize, and earned eight Grammy Awards (including a pair for Best Classical Album, an unprecedented achievement for a chamber music ensemble). Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer alternate in the first chair position and are joined by violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David Finckel. Most string quartets are seated while performing, but since 2002 Drucker, Setzer, and Dutton have stood. Finckel sits on a podium. The quartet’s program features Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross, a meditation on the final utterances of Jesus Christ that includes an introduction, seven sonatas, and a finale. The ensemble is also scheduled to perform Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80.

The performance of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross is part of Moments of Change, a Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities multifaceted and ongoing initiative focused in 2009–2010 on the late eighteenth century (1776–1801). The performance is made possible through a partnership between the Center for the Performing Arts and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

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COST:

Adult $36   University Park Student $15   18 and Younger $29

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Center for the Performing Arts @ Penn State
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