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R A P I D R I V E R A R T S
performance
2011 Winter/Spring Concerts
Sponsored by the Asheville Chamber Music Series
The Asheville Chamber Music Series,
celebrating its 58th season, will
be presenting the following
concerts:
MARCH 4 – AUDUBON QUARTET
Betthoven: Op. 18, No. 2
Serebrier: Fantasia for String Quartet
Wolf: “Italian Serenade”
Schickele: Quartet No. 1,
“American Dreams”
The Audubon Quartet has won
acclaim throughout the world for
more than 30 years. Founded in 1974,
the ensemble quickly achieved international
recognition by winning top
prizes in three major competitions in
their first four years together.
In 1981, the Quartet made a groundbreaking
three-week tour of Mainland
China, the first American quartet ever to
visit the People’s Republic of China. “They
listen to one another and adjust instinctively
to produce a sound of strikingly beautiful
luminescent quality that invariably serves
the music with grace, sophistication and
vibrancy. (The New York Times).
BY PAMELA MILLER
Audubon Quartet Photo: Richard Mallory Allnutt
As Quartet-in-Residence at the University
of Texas School of Music, the ensemble
members teach private students and coach
chamber music groups.
For more information please call
(828) 259-3626 or go to www.main.nc.us/
ashevillechambermusic.com
Miro Quartet
MARCH 25 – MIRO QUARTET
Schubert: “Quartetsatz”
Brahms: Quartet No. 1
Philip Glass: Quartet No. 5
Founded in 1995 at the Oberlin
Conservatory, the Miro were winners of
the Fischoff, Banff and Coleman competitions,
as well as the prestigious Naumburg
Chamber Music Award and the Cleveland
Quartet Award. It was the first chamber
ensemble ever to be awarded the Avery
Fisher Career Grant.
IF
YOU
GO
The concerts take place at
the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Asheville, 1 Edwin
Place at Charlotte Street, at 8
p.m. Tickets are available for
$35 at the door on a first come, first
served basis. Students under 25 are admitted
free of charge (space permitting).
To pre-order tickets please call (828) 259-
3626. On Thursday preceding each concert
a “Pre-Concert Talk” will be held at the
Reuter Center at UNCA. The program will
begin at 4:15 p.m. and is free and open to
the public.
Love is a canvas furnished
by Nature and embroidered
by imagination.
~ Voltaire
The English writer
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
(1803-1849) is one
of the great figures in
19th century poetry and
drama. He is renowned
for his interest in death
and the macabre.
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star:
- So many times do I love again.
~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes
2 February 2011 — RAPID RIVER ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE — Vol. 14, No. 6