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The ETHEL string quartet will perform Friday, Sept. 4 in the Williams Center for the Arts. The concert is the first performance in this year’s Chamber Music series.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $15 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009.
Other performances in the 2009-10 Chamber Music series will be the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Nov. 13, $20; the Brentano String Quartet, March 31, $18; and three appearances by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with special guests violinist Janine Jansen on Oct. 7, $29, pianist Angela Hewitt on Feb. 5, $29, and violinist Ryu Goto on May 3, $29. A $125 subscription package for the six events, a savings of 11 percent off the single ticket price, is available through Sept. 4.
ETHEL’s work blends traditional, classical music with elements of world music, jazz, rock, funk, and blues. The group has performed in 10 different countries and at venues across the U.S. It also has shared the stage with pop/rock icons Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson on an episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Members of ETHEL have recorded/performed with artists such as Sheryl Crow, Gorillaz, Roger Daltrey, Yo Yo Ma, and Lenny Kravitz.
The 2009–2010 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidsey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for its extraordinary support.