Meany Center: Emerson String Quartet

Eugene Drucker, violin
Philip Setzer, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
Paul Watkins, cello

George Walker – Lyric for Strings
Alexander Borodin – String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Franz Joseph Haydn – The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. XX:1b

The Emerson String Quartet’s performances combine “an extraordinary fusion of experience and authority with audacity and freshness” (The Boston Globe). Over four decades, the quartet has accumulated an impressive list of achievements, including over 30 notable recordings, nine Grammys, three Gramophone Awards, and the Avery Fisher Prize. These long-time friends of Meany perform works by Haydn and Borodin, and the poetic Lyric for Strings, composed by George Walker — the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music — as an elegy to his grandmother.

"With musicians like this there must be some hope for humanity."
— The Times (London)

The performance will take place at 7:30pm.

Choose Your Own Series (CYO) packages go on sale later this fall. Full Series packages are now available; renewing Full Series subscribers will receive first priority for seating.

About Emerson String Quartet

http://www.emersonquartet.com/

About Meany Center for the Performing Arts

http://www.meanycenter.org