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Summit Avenue Music Series presents: Pro Arte Quartet

Submitted photo Summit Avenue Music Series presents the Pro Arte Quartet, featuring, from left, violinists David Perry, Suzanne Beia, violist Sally Chisholm and cellist Parry Karp.

NEW ULM — Summit Avenue Music Series presents the Pro Arte Quartet, featuring violinists David Perry, Suzanne Beia, violist Sally Chisholm and cellist Parry Karp.

The Summit Ave Music Series is thrilled to present the second concert of its season on Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 3:00pm in the Martin Luther College Chapel of the Christ. The concert features the Pro Arte Quartet (PAQ), described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “One of the greatest quartets of our time.” Founded by conservatory students in Brussels in 1912, the PAQ became one of the most celebrated ensembles in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and was named Court Quartet to the Queen of Belgium. Its world reputation blossomed in 1919 when the quartet began the first of many tours that enticed notable composers such as Milhaud, Honegger, Martin, and Casella to write new works for the ensemble. In addition, BartÛk dedicated his fourth quartet to the PAQ (1927), and in 1936 PAQ premiered Barber’s Op. 11 quartet, with the now-famous “Adagio for Strings” as its slow movement.

The concert on March 17 features the gorgeous Evening Songs (Cypresses’) for String Quartet by AntonÌn DvoY#·k, the String Quartet No. 5 in Bb Major, Op. 27 by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and the String Quartet in Bb Major, K. 458 “Hunt” by W. A. Mozart.

For ticket information, visit SummitAvenueMusic.com. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and from the New Ulm Area Foundation.

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