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EMERSON STRING QUARTET

Eugene Drucker, violin
Philip Setzer, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
David Finckel, cello

Saturday, April 4 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$30 • Dartmouth students $5

Winner of eight Grammy Awards—including two for Best Classical Album, an unprecedented achievement for a chamber group—Emerson String Quartet is triumphantly hailed as “the one indispensable quartet in a world that is constantly creating more, excellent ensembles” (Newsday). After sold-out performances at the Hop, Emerson returns for its fifth appearance, performing with fresh vitality and an adrenaline-inducing rush made the more precise and graceful from over 30 years of technical mastery. Emerson presents Haydn's String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74, No. 3 “Rider;” Bartók's String Quartet No. 3; Webern's Bagatelles, Op. 9; and Ravel's String Quartet in F Major. Its celebrated members epitomize the ideal quartet—“everything we have come to expect from this superb ensemble” (The New York Times).