Moscow String Quartet coming to Cornell March 8 for Music Monday
Cornell College will host the renowned musical ensemble the Moscow String Quartet on Monday, March 8, as part of the college’s 12th season of Music Mondays.
Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.
Described by Alfred Schnittke as an extraordinary ensemble that distinguishes itself with refined musical style, an unusually beautiful sound and palette of colors, and tremendous artistic temperament, and by Sofia Gubaidulina as having extraordinary tone, phrasing and virtuosity, and the deepest reverence for the music, the Moscow String Quartet has earned a place among the most distinguished ensembles of our times. Graduates of the Moscow Conservatory and Gnessin Musical Institute, the members were students of eminent professors (Yuri Yankelevich, Genrihk Talalian and Valentin Berlinsky of the Borodin Quartet.
The quartet gained international acclaim after winning the Leo Weiner International Quartet Competition in Budapest and the 1979 International Quartet Competition in Evian.
The group will perform Alexander Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7, Op. 108 and Peter Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 22.
This is the year’s final Music Monday. For more about the quartet, visit their Web site.
