Harlem String Quartet Concerts This Weekend

It’s not often you get Ellington/Strayhorn and Shostakovich on the same bill, but the Harlem String Quartet’s concert Sunday afternoon at the Progress Energy Center is one of those times. If the $25 ticket price ($10 for students) for that show hurts too much, there’s a free “sampler concert” tonight at 7pm at Davie Street Presbyterian Church at the corner of Davie and Person.

Nancy Lambert, head of the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (a group that’s been making cool shows like this happen [since 1941 http://www.rcmg.org/about.htm]), passed on that the event is an informal one-hour program with selections from the pieces Harlem String Quartet will be playing Sunday along with commentary by the musicians. There’s also a master class Sunday morning at Meredith  that’s free and open to observation by the public, and a pre-concert talk by NC Symphony Resident Conductor William Curry Sunday at 2:15.

Harlem String Quartet Website

Text by Todd Morman

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