P INE S TREET L IFE The Newsletter of Pine Street Presbyterian Church | Harrisburg, PA
The Manhattan String Quartet Performing “The Masters” on the 2016-2017 MAPS Season
Volume 36 | Issue 10 | October 2016
In the Life of the Church October 2 World Communion October 3, 17, 24, 31 Kerygma October 4 Deacons October 8 Men’s Breakfast Kitchen Cleaning Shawl Ministry October 10 Offices Closed October 11 Team Night October 18 Trustees, Session October 23 DDB Soup Showdown October 29 MAPS: The Manhattan String Quartet
Hailed by the Bo sto n Globe as “a national treasure,” the MANHATTAN STRING QUARTET is celebrating its 45th season. Well known for their performances of 20th-century “classics,” the Manhattan Quartet has established a significant international reputation with regular concert appearances throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. After a series of concerts in Moscow and Leningrad in the fall of 1985, the Quartet became the first American classical ensemble to give a full tour of the Soviet Union under that era’s new cultural agreement. Their first sold-out series of performances in 1986 was folVisit www.pinestreet.org/calendar for the lowed by an equally successful tour in 1989. In 2005, the Quartet made complete church schedule. its first tour of Asia and played to sold-out houses in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan. Notable among its many recordings is the complete cycle of 15 Shostakovich string quartets that TIME Magazine called “One of the most important musical events of 1991.” The group has been Quartet-in-Residence at Colgate University since 1988 and has held similar posts at the Manhattan School of Music, Cornell University, Grinnell College, Western Connecticut State University, the Chamber Music Institute in Racine, Wisconsin, Connecticut’s Music Mountain Festival, and Michigan’s Interlochen National Music Camp (for 22 summers). Since 1989, the Quartet has hosted the KentMusic String Quartet Conference and, since 2001, annual European conferences for pre-professional and amateur
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