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...music needs no special pleading. In a work like the Double Quartet for Strings (1984), heard as part of the San Francisco Symphony's week-long salute to the composer, Zwilich displays a formidable technical command coupled with a striking ear for beguiling string sonorities. Her 1979 Chamber Symphony, a kind of elegy to her late husband, Metropolitan Opera Violinist Joseph Zwilich, is reminiscent of Shostakovich in its arching melodies and air of melancholic brooding...
...with gold-mining magnate Patrice Motsepe, 43, whose wealth South African newspapers put at more than $500 million, and banking and media tycoon Saki Macozoma, 47--form a quartet of rich, well-connected black businessmen who symbolize South Africa's new corporate élite. Although they work separately, Macozoma, Motsepe, Ramaphosa and Sexwale have been dubbed the Fabulous Four for their growing power and wealth, and between them, they have more than $1 billion worth of interests in some of South Africa's largest companies, from mining heavyweights Harmony Gold and Gold Fields to life insurer Sanlam and Alexander Forbes...
Friday, April 15. Featuring LifeMusic Commissions-Pierre Jalbert, “Iceberg Sonnets”; Brahms, “Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34”; Beethoven, “Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1.” Featuring Melvin Chen, soloist. 8 p.m. Paine Hall. Admission free and open to the public. Free passes available at the Harvard Box Office...
...several years now, Harvard students and faculty haven’t been able to get enough of one musically talented family whose repeated campus performances continue to move audience members to tears, if not to the melody. I am, of course, talking about the Ying Quartet, the world’s only professional family string quartet and Blodgett Artists in Residence since 2001. (Those of you who guessed the von Trapp family might just want to read...
First playing on Monday for a small crowd at University Hall, the Ying Quartet will have another, longer performance at Paine Hall tonight at 8 p.m. The program includes Brahms’s “Piano Quintet in F minor” with soloist Melvin Chen, Beethoven’s “Quartet in F Major,” and “Ice Sonnets,” a LifeMusic Commissions piece by Pierre Jalbert...