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Kander & Ebb & Pierce
The songwriting team of Kander & Ebb wrote the musicals Cabaret and Chicago. Their final collaboration, The Scottsboro Boys, premiered at the Guthrie in Minneapolis in 2010. Fred Ebb died four years before, so John Kander finished the words himself....
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The St. Louis based Arianna String Quartet (Photo courtesy of the Artist)
Regional Spotlight: The Arianna String Quartet
by Steve Staruch, Minnesota Public Radio
July 21, 2011
St. Paul, Minn. — "I have recently completed a string quartet.....It is in g minor and not intended to bring trivialities to market."
Grieg finished his one and only quartet in 1878. Setting out to compose a masterpiece Grieg juxtaposed darkly resonant and muscular music, exploiting the lowest notes of the cello and viola, with soaring and tender violin melodies. It is a sonic and technical tour de force.
The Arianna Quartet performs this sprawling work from a concert recorded June 18th at the Madeline Island Music Camp. The Arianna Quartet and Grieg are featured in this week's Regional Spotlight.
Regional Spotlight airs Thursday at 3 p.m. on Classical MPR stations and web stream.
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