Emerson String Quartet To Play Final Performance At Lincoln Center
The legendary Emerson String Quartet will play its final performance this afternoon at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.
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The legendary Emerson String Quartet will play its final performance this afternoon at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.
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.
“History has proven that Bach was making music that would connect people to God.”