Emerson String Quartet

One of the world’s finest chamber ensembles, nine-time Grammy winners, and longtime friends of our Performing Arts Series, the Emerson String Quartet visits our campus on their farewell tour. In this, their 33^rd and final Middlebury appearance, they play quartets by Shostakovich and Ravel, Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and our Music Accord co-commission Drink the Wild Ayre by Sarah Kirkland Snider.

Not only are the quartet members Middlebury College honorary degree recipients, but their beloved 42-year long relationship with our campus and community is one of the crowning achievements in our series’ 104-year history.

“With musicians like this, there must be some hope for humanity.”—The Times (London)

Learn more about the artists: www.emersonquartet.com

Watch videos:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HIXtBElH4&t=17s

https://youtu.be/Bo1Udh_GIjg

Program:

George Walker: Lyric for Strings

Sarah Kirkland Snyder: Drink the Wild Ayre

Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, op. 133

Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Major

Tickets: $25 general public | $20 Middlebury ID holders | $10 Youth (Under 21) | $5 Middlebury students. General admission. Approximate running time: 90 minutes, no intermission.

Buy tickets: http://go.middlebury.edu/tickets

Performance subject to change.