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Brentano String Quartet 4:00 p.m., Sunday, September 26, 2004 Moody Music Building, University of Alabama Since its inception in 1992, The Brentano String Quartet has been singled out for its technical brilliance, musical insight, and stylistic elegance. They earned the 1995 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the first Cleveland Quartet Award, and were named by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to participate in the inaugural season the Chamber Music Society Two—a program designed for outstanding emerging artists. The quartet is now resident ensemble at Princeton University and a frequent guest on major North American concert series and festival schedules. Further, they have performed at London’s Wigmore Hall (where they were the resident quartet during 2000/01), the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and in major cities in German, Italy, Spain, Australia, and Japan. The David Rose Artists serves as manager for the Quartet. For The String Quartet Society of Tuscaloosa concert, The Brentano Quartet will perform Mozart’s Quartet in A Major, K. 464; Wuorinen’s Divertimento (Wuorinen held the Chair of Music Composition at UA in Oct. 1996); and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80. |