Emerson String Quartet Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco
My review of the Emerson Quartet’s performance for the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center for Musical America (paywall):
NEW YORK—“Conclusions are the weak point of most authors,” George Eliot famously declared, “but some of the fault lies in the very nature of a conclusion, which is at best a negation.” That may hold true for fiction, but composers glory in the powerful statements they can make when a piece approaches the double bar line. And, in the case of certain composers, music written when their own lives are nearing the end possesses a special mystique.
Filed under: Beethoven, Emerson String Quartet, Musical America, review, Shostakovich
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 