Violins from the Parker Quartet
#238 on Explore, Monday, May 11, 2009
Known for scintillating musicianship, vibrant playing, youthful style... and for taking their performances out of the concert hall and into the bars and clubs of East Coast America. Is this an approach that might attract new (and younger) audiences to (less stuffy) classical gigs in non-traditional venues? (see New York Times review 18 Sept 20078: www.parkerquartet.com/press/new-york-times-09182007/ )
Here Daniel Chong & Karen Kim play (at an electrifying tempo) pieces by Bartok, Beethoven & Webern.
Members of the Quartet met at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA, in 2002
(This photo was published in the BBC Music Magazine, August 2009)
Violins from the Parker Quartet
#238 on Explore, Monday, May 11, 2009
Known for scintillating musicianship, vibrant playing, youthful style... and for taking their performances out of the concert hall and into the bars and clubs of East Coast America. Is this an approach that might attract new (and younger) audiences to (less stuffy) classical gigs in non-traditional venues? (see New York Times review 18 Sept 20078: www.parkerquartet.com/press/new-york-times-09182007/ )
Here Daniel Chong & Karen Kim play (at an electrifying tempo) pieces by Bartok, Beethoven & Webern.
Members of the Quartet met at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA, in 2002
(This photo was published in the BBC Music Magazine, August 2009)