The Avalon String Quartet to Present the Spring Chicago Concert Series April 18, 2010

Avalon String Quartet, one of the country’s leading chamber music ensembles, will present the spring engagement of its 2009-2010 Chicago Concert Series in April. Joined by Anthony McGill on clarinet, Avalon will present a program that includes a new composition by Harold Meltzer (winner of the 2008 Barlow Prize in String Quartet Composition); Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major No. 127, a work of complex contrasts, representative of Beethoven’s late stylistic period; and Johannes Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B op. 115, an evocative work full of yearning and wistfulness, ripe with structural rigor.

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