The Emerson String Quartet, a Grammy Award-winning classical music ensemble, will perform in Distler Performance Hall tonight at 8 p.m. The ensemble, the quartet in residence at Stony Brook University, has taught many master classes over the years. The quartet’s Philip Setzer will teach a masters class on the Hill at 3 p.m. in the Fisher Performance Room.
Tufts Professor and Department of Music Chair Joseph Auner, who taught at Stony Brook with the ensemble, feels that a concert featuring the Emerson String Quartet will enrich the lives of Tufts students and members of the surrounding community.
“The new performance hall was built to bring more visibility to Tufts and become a destination for people in Boston,” Auner said. “[The Emerson String Quartet] can show people what the impact is of having world-class artists here.”
Auner emphasized that the quartet represents a kind of “super-group” in which each musician is talented individually, and when they play together their music is exponentially inspiring and beautiful. The group showcases how an ensemble’s leadership can be shared between musicians of incredible talent.
The quartet has recorded all kinds of classical music, from Beethoven and Mozart to more modern composers like Shostakovich and Bartók. Instead of simply playing the same piece over and over again, however, the group seems to find a way to reinvent compositions for each concert, according to Auner.
“They are committed to making old music new,” Auner said. “The group is very dynamic, and all are exciting performers. They seem to be rediscovering a piece each time they play.”
There are only a few tickets left to see this world-renowned classical music ensemble. Tickets cost between $5 and $25 and can be bought at the Beelzebubs Box Office in the Granoff Music Center. Setzer’s master class will be free of charge.
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