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The Brentano String Quartet will make its Lafayette debut 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, in the Williams Center for the Arts.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $18 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009. The final performance in the 2009-10 Chamber Music series will be the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with guest violinist Ryu Goto May 3, $29.
The program will include the new Night Songs for a Desert Flower by Stephen Hartke set between two of Franz Schubert’s most enduring works–Quartettsatz and the towering G Major Quartet.
Since winning the prestigious Naumburg Prize and the inaugural Cleveland Quartet Award in the mid-1990s, the Brentano Quartet has been a fixture at cultural centers throughout the world. “Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding” raves the London Independent, while The New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism.”
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.