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	Emerson String Quartet: Festival at Stony Brook University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Emerson String Quartet: Festival at Stony Brook University
		Acclaimed for its inspired performances, artistry, and technical mastery, the Emerson String Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles.
		Today, the ensemble is recognized as a string quartet that performs both classical and contemporary repertoire with equal mastery and enthusiasm.
	www.sunysb.edu /sb/esq/emerson.shtml (145 words)

	Emerson String Quartet performs two all-Shostakovich programs at the UI Oct. 20, 22
		Members of the Emerson String Quartet will discuss their Shostakovich Project -- through which they have tackled all 15 of the legendary Russian composer’s quartets -- in a free event moderated by UI Symphony conductor William LaRue Jones at noon Sunday, Oct. 22 in the UI Museum of Art.
		The concert and discussion by the Emerson String Quartet are part of "Russian Un-Orthodox," a series of fall concerts and other events at the UI focusing on music from Russia from the 20th century.
		Tickets for each Emerson Quartet concert are $30 ($10 for UI students, $24 for senior citizens and $15 for audience members 17 and younger) from the Hancher box office.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2000/september/0929emerson_qt.html (859 words)

	Emerson String Quartet - Wikipedia
		The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned New York based string quartet in residence at Stony Brook University.
		Emerson String Quartet for Beethoven: The String Quartets (1998)
		The Emerson String Quartet, Converging Lines: The Extraordinary Story of the Emerson String Quartet's First 25 Years, [ISBN 1899332685], Risk Waters Group
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emerson_String_Quartet (138 words)

	Emerson String Quartet - 19 Feb 2001 - INKPOT
		I am, however, in full agreement with Dr Chang's sentiment that the Emersons are as top drawer as any performing quartet today, and I might go so far as to say that this performance looks likely to be one of the high points of the current season, even so early on.
		Yet, right from the very first notes of the Brahms First String Quartet, the texture of the sound which they projected was that of spaciousness, pushing back the walls of the auditorium and burning through a fog of reverberation.
		What was instantaneously recognizable was their trademark precision and ensemble, all though the development of the first movement, the poetry of the second (as sublime as could be expected), the intermezzo of the third and the vigour of the fourth.
	inkpot.com /concert/emerson01.html (1146 words)

	Guardian \| Emerson String Quartet
		Even the major-key serenity of the Emersons' playing could not hide the pain of the music, as if the piece were still haunted by the minor-key ghosts of its earlier movements.
		Three quartets, Op 44, found Mendelssohn consolidating the lessons of his earlier pieces but it was his last, F minor Quartet, Op 80, that inspired the Emersons' finest playing.
		The whole piece was as structurally original and emotionally draining as any string quartet written in the 19th century; it proved, once and for all, the brilliance of Mendelssohn's imagination.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5149074-110430,00.html (330 words)

	Amazon.com: Complete String Quartets [BOX SET]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Emerson Quartet play with considerable refinement and technical skill and there are places where they offer genuine insight into these works, but I would venture that when the work is at its most eccentric and personal (for example in No 11) they are found wanting.
		The Emerson's set is too harsh, too fast, focuses on technique and speed to the detriment of the music, and lacks an understanding of the complex emotional depth DSCH achieved in these pieces.
		Despite being often criticized as shallow, I chose the Emerson set for three reasons: I have their Bartok cycle which I think is mind-blowing (I have listened to lots of other interpretations of Bartok's quartets, particularly the third and fourth, and the Emersons have everyone beat).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003XAGO?v=glance (2215 words)

	classical music - andante - 'e pluribus unum' - the emerson string quartet plays mendelssohn, bach and beethoven
		In short, if the quartet that's named after American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson had a motto, it should be "E pluribus unum" — many as one, which is also the motto of the United States.
		The Emersons, who won one of their six Grammy awards for their recordings of Beethoven's string quartets, breezed through these passages with precision.
		The Emerson String Quartet and Théâtre de Complicité in a music-theater piece on Shostakovich's final years — a meditation that is, perhaps, too oblique.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25205 (776 words)

	pitch.com \| \| Echo \| Emerson String Quartet \| 2000-05-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As good as the Haydn was, and as effective as the dénouement turned out to be (Debussy's Quartet in G minor), the Shostakovich made the concert an event.
		With violist Lawrence Dutton, the quartet would have been worth watching even if no sound came from their instruments, such was the balletic precision of their playing.
		The quartet is probably the most convincing challenger of the popular notion that chamber music must be airless and starched.
	www.pitch.com /issues/2000-05-04/echo5.html (434 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Emerson String Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lawrence Dutton, the violist, is a regular guy, the one who never even heard a string quartet before he went to college.
		Though when the Emersons returned with one of Beethoven's late quartets, the one in E flat major, Op.
		The E flat quartet starts with solid affirmation that all at once evaporates, leaving music that could almost have been woven out of air.
	www.gregsandow.com /emerson.htm (1186 words)

	Emerson, Rollins Adams - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Emerson, Rollins Adams
		He taught at Cornell University, where he made many rigorously detailed studies of the genetics of maize, and influenced many subsequent maize geneticists, including Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock.
		Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Emerson,+Rollins+Adams (131 words)

	Emerson Encores by Emerson String Quartet CD
		Quartet for Strings no 13 in B flat major, Op.
		Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, Op.
		Quartet for Strings no 9 in C major, Op.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/4987128/a/Emerson+Encores.htm (432 words)

	ipedia.com: String quartet Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string musical instruments or a piece written to be performed by such a group.
		Although any combination of four string instruments may be called a "string quartet", in practice, the term almost always refers to a group consisting of two violins (the "first" and "second" violin), one viola and one cello.
		A piece of music for four players of stringed instruments may be in any form, but if it is simply a String Quartet (with or without a subtitle) it is usually in four movements, with a large-scale structure similar to that of a symphony.
	www.ipedia.com /string_quartet.html (2004 words)

	Amazon.com: Debussy, Ravel: Streichquartette: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sometimes the strings sound relatively thin; moreover, I consider their view of these two very personal works to be a little superficial relative to the others.
		The string quartet is a wonderful medium; the tone is warm, vibrant, and capable of rich variety.
		Their respective quartets are not so intense and "purposeful" as those of Bartók and Shostakovich; yet the sound of the pieces is no less rich.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001GNA?v=glance (1253 words)

	Tower Records - Shostakovich: String Quartets / Emerson String Quartet
		Quartet for Strings no 7 in F sharp minor, Op.
		The 15 string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich represent one of the towering legacies of 20th-century music, yet it has taken some time for them to be accepted as central repertoire by non-Russian ensembles, especially the elite groups of the west.
		Now the Emerson String Quartet, unquestionably one of the finest and most highly visible before the public, make major redress in the form of a complete cycle which has a strikingly individual profile and in some ways places these works in a new light.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.asp?pfid=1810952 (727 words)

	Emerson String Quartet: Festival at Stony Brook University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Through a highly selective audition process, four young, talented quartets have been invited to participate in the Emerson Quartet master classes.
		Acclaimed for its inspired performances, artistry, and technical mastery, the Emerson Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles.
		The quartet has earned an impressive list of milestones: a series of recordings exclusively documented by Deutsche Grammophon, six Grammy awards, and complete cycles of Bartok, Beethoven, and Shostakovich quartets performed in major concert halls throughout the world.
	www.sunysb.edu /sb/esq/index.shtml (233 words)

	Emerson String Quartet
		The ensemble is lauded globally as a string quartet that approaches both classical and contemporary repertoire with equal mastery and enthusiasm.
		In March 1997, the Quartet released a seven-disc boxed set of the complete Beethoven quartets and organized a series of performances over two seasons at New York's Lincoln Center entitled "Beethoven and the Twentieth Century," a total of eight concerts that paired two Beethoven quartets with a twentieth-century composition.
		In 2000, the group was selected as Musical America's "Ensemble of the Year." The Quartet members were honored by the Governor of Connecticut for their outstanding cultural contributions to the state, and in 1994 received the University Medal for Distinguished Service from the University of Hartford.
	www.emersonquartet.com /_dpk/dpk_print.php?id=3&view=brief (1192 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Emerson String Quartet has good timing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the Emersons started out more than a quarter century ago, they quickly drew attention, making their Lincoln Center debut in their second season and winning the prestigious Naumburg Award for chamber music.
		The Emersons made slight revisions for better balance, and added a movement from the choral adaptation that Drucker transcribed for quartet.
		Their next release is a four CD set of the complete Mendelssohn string quartets and the composer's Octet.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/04/11/emerson_string_quartet_has_good_timing (1110 words)

	reviewvancouver: Emerson String Quartet: J H. Stape> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The concert opener, Mendelssohn's "String Quartet in E flat major," was an object lesson in obtaining clarity of detail.
		The Emerson reached for an almost orchestral sound in the quartet's closing measures.
		Clearly glad to have The Emerson String Quartet back in town, the attentive and appreciative audience, was graciously offered not one but two encores: Mendelssohn's Fugue, Op.
	www.reviewvancouver.org /co_emerson2005.htm (561 words)

	UCSD Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The New York-based Emerson String Quartet was formed in 1976, the bicentennial year of the United States, and took its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson "because that was an American name associated with culture," says violinist Drucker.
		In 1994, the quartet received the University Medal for Distinguished Service from the University of Hartford in Connecticut and in 1995, each member was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Middlebury College in Vermont.
		Tickets for the Emerson String Quartet are $22 general admission and $10 for students.
	ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/events/jemerson.htm (660 words)

	Amazon.com: Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets / Emerson String Quartet [ENHANCED]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It follows that the quartet is darker than the others and is agitated and dissonant in tone; the first movement begins with dark tones from the cello then proceeds with a beautiful melody punctuated with tremolos.
		It was reported by the composer Ignaz Moschelles that Mendelssohn was at work on a new string quartet before his death and of these two pieces the Theme and Variations is closest to the description of the work.
		There is a definite sense of development as between the quartet he wrote at age 14 (contemporary with the string symphonies, which I commend strongly to those unfamiliar with them) where the unmistakable personal idiom has not yet quite emerged and the op12/13 quartets and then the op44's and later in which it has.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006TN9G2?v=glance (2097 words)

	Emerson String Quartet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Emerson String Quartet is a renowned (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City–based (An instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello) string quartet.
		They have performed since the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s, released over twenty albums and won six (Click link for more info and facts about Grammy Awards) Grammy Awards.
		Eugene Drucker, (Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow) violin
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emerson_string_quartet.htm (154 words)

	Emerson String Quartet lights up Leighton - The Observer - Scene
		The Emerson Quartet has made it a goal to educate the "next generation" of performers and make them aware of the potency behind music from the Classical and Romantic periods.
		Speaking generally about the Emerson Quartet, Dutton explained that along with performing and tutoring, the group specializes heavily in recording sessions with Deutsche Grammophon.
		As classical music in general sees its place in the recording industry dwindling, the quartet is grateful for the successful partnership they have had with Grammophon since the late eighties.
	www.ndsmcobserver.com /news/2005/04/18/Scene/Emerson.String.Quartet.Lights.Up.Leighton-928135.shtml (510 words)

	Emerson String Quartet: Festival at Stony Brook University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This open class will be led by the four members of the Emerson String Quartet (repertoire to be announced at the class).
		This performance showcases the guest quartets, reflecting work over the course of the weeklong workshop with the Emerson Quartet.
		The concert will be followed by a reception allowing the public to meet members of the Emerson Quartet and the four guest quartets.
	www.sunysb.edu /sb/esq/schedule.shtml (247 words)

	Emerson String Quartet gets lesson in acoustics - PittsburghLIVE.com
		The Emerson String Quartet, America's most honored chamber ensemble, returned to Pittsburgh on Monday night in top form, offering a memorable evening of neglected and familiar masterpieces.
		Although Dmitri Shostakovich is best known for his 15 symphonies, he also wrote 15 string quartets, most of which are still rarely performed in the West.
		The string players were repositioned for the second half, moving closer to the audience to make room for the piano for one of Johannes Brahms' supreme masterpieces.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/music/s_318571.html (445 words)

	Classical CD Guide -- Top 10 Essential Schubert CDs to Start Your Classical Music Collection
		This quartet is one of the fruits of that period.
		The quartet takes its name from the theme of the second movement, a song which Schubert wrote when he was twenty.
		The instrumentation is unique for Schubert: he combines the elegance of the string quintet with the rich sonorities of the clarinet, horn, and basson.
	www.classicalcdguide.com /composers/schubert.htm (1621 words)

	A&L News Release - Emerson String Quartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Throughout its 27-year history, the Emerson String Quartet has garnered an international reputation for groundbreaking chamber music projects and correlating recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and complete cycles of the Bartók, Beethoven and Shostakovich string quartets performed in the world’s major concert halls.
		In March 1997, the quartet released a seven-CD boxed set of the complete Beethoven quartets and organized a two-season series of performances at New York’s Lincoln Center entitled “Beethoven and His Contemporaries,” a total of eight concerts that paired two Beethoven quartets with a twentieth-century composition.
		In 2000, the Quartet performed the complete cycle of Shostakovich quartets in a critically acclaimed five-concert series presented at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, as well as at Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Centre in London.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/2003-2004/pr/emerson.asp (804 words)

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