[HvEXAS] JACK Quartet | tonight at 8 | EMPAC, Troy, NY

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/jack

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PERFORMANCE
JACK Quartet
Friday, December 9, 8 PM
$18 general admission (discounted tickets available)

A string quartet performance in two acts featuring three pieces from the 1960s to the present that play with conventions of music notation and performance, and a haunting 30-minute piece from the 1990s with an uncanny spectral interplay. 

+ Program:

* Earle Brown, String Quartet

* Peter Ablinger, Wachstum und Massenmord

* Alex Mincek, String Quartet No. 3 "lift-tilt-filter-split"

- intermission -

* Horaţiu Rădulescu, String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born"

The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (The Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (The New York Times). David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed their performance to be "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.

Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland, JACK is focused on commissioning and performing new works, and the quartet has worked closely with composers Helmut Lachenmann and György Kurtág, among others. JACK also offers fresh interpretations of early music, including works by Don Carlo Gesualdo, Guillaume de Machaut, and Josquin des Prez.

+ JACK Quartet site: http://jackquartet.com/

+ video of JACK Quartet performing String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKeo79Ldz50

Evelyn's Café will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues during intermission and after the performance.

Tickets are $18 for general admission, $13 for students, seniors, and Rensselaer faculty + staff, and $6 for Rensselaer students (you must provide the appropriate identification for discounted tickets). Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921