The performances were everything we have come to expect from this superb ensemble: technically resourceful, musically insightful, cohesive, full of character and always interesting. —The New York Times
The Emerson String Quartet returns for its 35th year at the Smithsonian. Violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton, and cellist Paul Watkins perform a season that displays the range and unparalleled musicianship of an ensemble that has been hailed as “the one indispensable quartet” by Newsweek.
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CONCERT PROGRAM
Sun., May 10, 2015
With special guests Paul Neubauer, viola, and Colin Carr, cello
Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E-flat Major, K. 614 (“Harp”) 4a
Lowell Liebermann: New String Quartet (2014), Washington D.C. premiere
Tchaikovsky: Sextet for Strings, Op. 70, “Souvenir de Florence”
All programs subject to change.
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