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Manchester Music Festival’s 50th anniversary year coincides with the first for its new artistic director, violinist Philip Setzer, a founding member of the revered Emerson String Quartet.

MANCHESTER — The Manchester Music Festival announces its upcoming 50th anniversary season, set to take place in Summer 2024, under the direction of its new artistic director, Philip Setzer, founding

PSO’s season-opening concert will feature the musician in his first concert following the 47-year-old quartet’s farewell tour, which ended in October

A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid farewell with Beethoven’s Opus 130 and Schubert’s String Quintet.

The group, famed for its rich vitality, easy power and a vast repertory that it recorded prolifically and toured tirelessly, is saying farewell.

On their farewell tour, two members of the string group ponder companionship and the merits (or not) of their namesake, Ralph Waldo, Fergus McIntosh writes.

Widely considered one of the defining string quartets of their time, the Emerson String Quartet, which will disband in October, performed a final University concert to a sold-out crowd in the Morse Recital Hall.

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