As part of an international tour, the New Zealand String Quartet performed on Sunday at the National Academy of Sciences, devoting half of the program to recent works based on the subtleties of China’s musical language. In contrasting ways, both Tan Dun’s Eight Colors and Gao Ping’s Bright Light and Cloud Shadows resort to a [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Luscious velvet sound
Think classical music and, understandably, you think Europe. But with the world getting smaller and, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman constantly reminds us, flatter, the creation, appreciation and performance of great music clearly defies geographic boundaries.
Case in point: the New Zealand String Quartet, which performed at Tuckerman Hall Friday night for Music Worcester. [...]
New Zealand Quartet stands and delivers
Sunday night we generally like to be home, preparing for the week ahead and trying to turn in early, with no Jon Stewart or Conan O’Brien enticing us to stay up. At least, that’s how we roll in the Copley home, and considering most Sunday events are scheduled for the afternoon, and Sunday is the [...]
