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THE NEW YORK TIMES – Next Concert Season at the Met Will Include Music in...
…A cycle of Bartok’s six string quartets by the Calder Quartet in the Rogers Auditorium might at first glance seem a throwback to the old regime. But the works are presented in three concerts intended...
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CLEVELANDORCHESTRA.COM – Groundbreaking Museum Collaboration
…“Groundbreaking” might be a better description of California Masterworks, a two-day immersion in the music created on the West Coast in the late 20th century that completely redefined the American...
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CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER – Cleveland Orchestra has one busy week with...
…performed with admirable gusto by the Calder Quartet… Download PDF | Full Article
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THE GUARDIAN – Nico Muhly: A Scream and an Outrage – review
…Two fabulous pieces – a mesmerising and beautifully sustained percussion quartet by Daníel Bjarnason and a string quartet by Joby Talbot, whose galloping melodic lines slipped out of the percussive...
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BOSTON GLOBE – Hidden dimensions from the Calder Quartet
Bartok’s Fifth String Quartet presents as complete a picture of the composer as any of his mature works. It begins with a series of repeated notes that the string players hammer out in a stabbing,...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – Traveling Through Time and Memory, Thanks to Adès and...
No music captures the time-crossing potential of the Mostly Mozart Festival quite like Thomas Adès’s “Arcadiana,” which the Calder Quartet played in a superb late-night concert at the Kaplan Penthouse...
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LOS ANGELES TIMES – Carlsbad Music Festival turns 10 with a packed weekend of...
With all the anniversaries upon us – the Los Angeles Master Chorale celebrates its 50thwith a gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall Sunday and the Los Angeles Philharmonic follows that next week with the...
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MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO – New Classical Tracks: Anne-Marie McDermott & the...
Pianist Ann-Marie McDermott has long dreamed of recording a Mozart album. As a result, she had very definite ideas of the sound she was looking for when she recorded her latest album, Mozart: Piano...
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NEW YORKER – Metropolitan Museum: CALDER QUARTET BARTÓK CYCLE
Oct. 12 at 7: The young, Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet, which plays the classics with as much conviction as it does contemporary fare, begins a three-concert fall series that mixes the string...
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NEW YORKER – The Calder Quartet brings L.A. style to the Met Museum.
…In the past several years, the Calder Quartet, four Californians in their early thirties, have matured from energetic upstarts to a first-rate ensemble… [Illustration by Jon Han.] Download PDF | Full...
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GRAMOPHONE – Sounds of America
Review of Mozart Piano Concerti with Anne-Marie McDermmott. ‘..an otherworldly example of superb Mozart-playing..’ Download PDF
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TIMES UNION – Review: Quartet a delight in Troy
…This is a glimpse into the care and musicality the group displays. The Calder Quartet towers above every other string quartet this reviewer heard this year (or any other year)… Download PDF | Full...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES – Bartok’s Quartets Mixed With a Dose of Indie Rock
…The Calder Quartet performed No. 3 and No. 4 with flair, its lean, tightly wrought sound and impeccable ensemble work illuminating the intricacies and enduring strangeness of the pieces… Download PDF...
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THE WASHINGTON POST – Calder Quartet’s impressive nuances make for memorable...
…the Calder players took a fresh, modern look at the work, paring away much of the voluptuous swooning and turning in a refreshingly clear-eyed — but no less powerful — account. Download PDF | Full...
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PITCHFORK – Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth to Debut New Music With String...
On November 1, Dirty Projectors guitarist and vocalist Dave Longstreth will take part in an event as part of the Bartók Quartet Cycle series at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Longstreth and the...
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SPIN MAGAZINE – David Longstreth to Play Bartok, Dirty Projectors With Calder...
The constituent parts of Dirty Projectors have been staying busy on their own of late. Amber Coffman, of course, is the bewitching voice on Major Lazer’s still-excellent “Get Free.” We saw Olga Bell...
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LOS ANGELES TIMES – Grammys: L.A. Phil and Esa-Pekka Salonen among classical...
…Cheng, another previous Grammy winner, is, like Josefowicz, nominated for best classical instrumental solo. The pianist’s recording, “The Edge of Light,” features appropriately luminous solo...
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS – Best of 2013 classical
Anne-Marie McDermott, Calder Quartet, “Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 414, 415, 449″ (Bridge): Mozart was a practical fellow, suggesting that these orchestral pieces might easily be performed as chamber...
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SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT – Calder Quartet Comes to Hahn Hall
Beyond the bold athleticism of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. performance last October, there was one additional wonder that night — the fact that the soundtrack was no soundtrack at all. The...
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STRAD MAGAZINE – Violist Dimitri Murrath and Calder Quartet to receive Avery...
The Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet and the Belgian violist Dimitri Murrath have each been named as recipients of Avery Fisher Career Grants for 2014. Download PDF | Full Article
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