Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Press Release: Del Sol String Quartet's fall season

Announcing the Del Sol String Quartet's fall season:

"Premieres Without Borders"

(Nov. 5-10 in Point Reyes, Berkeley, Mountain View, and San Francisco)

Festival of New American Music "Four Seasons Concert" with the Melody of China
(November 11 at California State University, Sacramento)

"Concerts4Kids" (November 12 in Mountain View)

Click here to view the PDF of the press release.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Five Alive

In the San Francisco Classical Voice ...

By Mark Alburger

This being the Halloween season, you could say there were two extra guest artists featured with the Del Sol String Quartet on Sunday at St. Kevin's Church in San Francisco. There was the renowned guest-in-residence Joan Jeanrenaud, who was also the founding cellist with the Kronos Quartet. But the works by the other "collaborators" — Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) — were played so well the composers seemed to have risen from the dead. And Hyo-shin Na's howling treat Song of the Beggars highlighted the innovative tricks of the other works on the program.

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