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Borromeo String Quartet Brings Two Beethoven Quartets To Spire Center Nov. 1
The award-winning quartet's Classical Serenades program pairs Beethoven with works by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and Caroline Shaw; Sunday at 3 p.m
The Spire Center for Performing Arts presents the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet on Sunday, November 1 at 3 p.m. (doors at 2 p.m.) as part of the Spire’s Classical Serenades Series, which brings world-class chamber music to Plymouth throughout the year. Tickets are available now at spirecenter.org.
Hailed by audiences and critics around the globe, the Borromeo Quartet has been inspiring audiences for 35 years and has served as ensemble-in-residence at New England Conservatory for more than three decades. The quartet has performed on major concert stages worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Suntory Hall, the Concertgebouw, Seoul Arts Center and the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, and performed for many years with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
(L-R) Kristofer Tong, Melissa Reardon, Yeesun Kim and Nicholas Kitchen of the Borromeo String Quartet, performing at the Spire Center on Sunday, Nov. 1. (Photo courtesy Spire Center for Performing Arts)
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Admired for fresh interpretations of the classical canon and for championing works by contemporary composers, the quartet’s November 1 program offers both. Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2 opens the program, followed by “The Demons and Humans of Siyah-Kalem” by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol and Caroline Shaw’s “Entre’acte.” Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74, “Harp,” concludes the concert.
The Classical Serenades series continues with the Balourdet Quartet on February 21, the Galvin Cello Quartet on March 7, and Candlelight with Lenny Williams, Niav Maher & Friends on March 21.
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If you go: The Spire is located at 25½ Court Street in Plymouth. The venue is handicap accessible, and public parking is available streetside and in public lots near the venue.
About the Spire: The Greater Plymouth Performing Arts Center, Inc., the nonprofit behind the Spire Center, was founded in 2010 to support performing arts and educational programs across the South Shore.
