St. Lawrence String Quartet: with Todd Palmer, clarinet

"Pound for pound, note for note, chamber music can offer more intensity, intimacy, inspiration, and involvement than any other musical style. And few groups performing the repertoire can hope to match the St. Lawrence String Quartet in any of those categories" (Marc Shulgold for the Rocky Mountain News). Composer Osvaldo Golijov has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the quartet, and with Todd Palmer. Palmer was named editor-in-chief for publication of Dreams and Prayers, a piece inspired by the great kabbalist rabbi of Provence some eight centuries ago; of his performance of the work Golijov said "Todd's interpretation was noble and glowed like liquid gold."

Program:

• Beethoven: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
• Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

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