Music with String Quartet featuring JACK Quartet

12 Jan 2013
20:00:00 - 22:00:00

ICE Box at Crane Arts

Saturday, January 12, 2013

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Filling the generous acoustic space of a former industrial freezer, the internationally renowned JACK Quartet performs three of Cage’s late works for a string quartet: the antiphonal Music for Four (1984), the microtonal Four *(1989) and the rarely heard *Five3 (1991) for a string quartet and trombone. The program is listed below:

Cage: Music for Four (1984) for string quartet

Cage: Four (1989) for string quartet

Cage: Five3 (1991) for string quartet and trombone

Tickets:
General admission: $15
Student admission: $5

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For more information on the Cage festival, click here. For more information on festival co-producer Bowerbird, click here.

ICE Box at Crane Arts
1400 North American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Above: JACK Quartet, photo from quartet website (www.jackquartet.com).

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