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Complete Elliott Carter String Quartets
JACK Quartet
Date
Sat 06 Apr 2019, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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  • JACK Quartet

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    Overview

    In 1960, Carter’s exhilarating Second Quartet wonthe Pulitzer Prize, his Third matching that successthirteen years later. In the latter, Carter dividesthe instruments into pairs, giving a sense of whathe called ‘ever-varying perspectives of feelings,expression, rivalry and cooperation’, while the Fourthis preoccupied with ‘giving every member of thegroup its own identity’.

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