String institute this weekend
Vol. 17, No. 16Jan. 8, 1998

String institute this weekend

The University's seventh annual Winter Institute for String Quartets will feature two public concerts and three public master classes this January. The Department of Music event is cosponsored by the UD Performing Arts Series, and all events are in Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building.

The headline concert will take place at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 10, and will feature a number of prestigious guest artists, including Lawrence Dutton, violist with the Emerson String Quartet; Joel Krosnick, cellist with the Juilliard String Quartet; and Don Weilerstein, first violinist with the former Cleveland String Quartet. Also on the program are members of the Mendelssohn String Quartet-Nick Eanet and Nicholas Mann, violins; and Marcy Rosen, cello-who are resident faculty for the institute.

The program includes the Sextet in B flat, Op. 18 by Brahms and the Quintet in C Major for Strings, K. 515 by Mozart. Rosen and Krosnick will play the Sonata for Two Cellos by Donald Francis Tovey. The 1912 work exists only in a manuscript housed at Vermont's Marlboro Institute for Music and has rarely been heard.

Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for senior citizens and $6 for students.

An Emerging Artists Concert will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 11, featuring young professional chamber musicians participating in this year's institute.

For information, call 831-2577.