Market Square Concerts, JACK Quartet - Central Penn Arts Guide

On Saturday, November 12 at 8 pm in Temple Ohev Sholom, New York-based JACK Quartet will perform a?unique program that will challenge the audiences? concept of the string quartet in the 21st century and?expand listeners? audio palate.?The JACK Quartet program of music from the 14th, 20th and 21st centuries?will include Guillaume de Machaut ? Three Transcriptions arranged by Ari Streisfeld, Philip Glass ? Quartet?No. 5, Caleb Burhans ? Contritus for String Quartet and Iannis Xenakis Tetras. There will be a pre-concert?talk by Dr. Richard Strawser at 7:15 pm. Tickets are $30, $25 for seniors and $5 for college students. Tickets?for school students are free and $5 for accompanying parent or sibling. For tickets, call 717 214-ARTS. Information is available at 717 221-9599. Remaining tickets will be available at the door. This concert is a?wonderful opportunity to experience some of the most current and forward-looking chamber music.

JACK Quartet electrifies audiences around the world from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore Hall (London) and?Suntory Hall (Tokyo) with ?explosive virtuosity? (Boston Globe) and ?viscerally exciting performances? (New?York Times). David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being ?among the?most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience,? and NPR listed their performance as one of ?The?Best New York Alt-Classical Concerts Of 2010.? The Washington Post commented, ?The string quartet may?be a 250-year-old contraption, but young, brilliant groups like the JACK Quartet are keeping it thrillingly vital.??Alex Ross (New Yorker) hailed their performance of Iannis Xenakis? complete string quartets as being??exceptional? and Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times) called their sold-out performances of Georg Friedrich?Haas? String Quartet No. 3. ?mind-blowingly good.? The quartet?s recording of Xenakis? complete string?quartets appeared on ?Best Of? lists from the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New Yorker, NPR, and as??one of 2009?s most impressive recordings? from Time Out New York.

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin?McFarland, JACK is focused on the commissioning and performance of new works, leading them to work?closely with composers Helmut Lachenmann, Gy?rgy Kurt?g, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas,?James Dillon, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Sharp, Beat Furrer, Caleb Burhans, and Aaron?Cassidy. The quartet also offers fresh interpretations of early music, including works by Don Carlo Gesualdo,?Guillaume de Machaut, and Josquin des Prez.

This concert is sponsored by Lois Lehrman Grass. The season sponsor is Capital BlueCross. A resident?company of Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Market Square Concerts also receives support from?the Cultural Enrichment Fund and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Complete information on Market?Square Concerts? 2011-12 season is at: www.marketsquareconcerts.org

Source: http://centralpennartguide.com/market-square-concerts-jack-quartet

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