Blair String Quartet
The first chamber concert of the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association’s new season features the Blair String Quartet of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
The quartet will play at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Pollard Auditorium.
The members of the Blair String Quartet are Christian Teal and Cornelia Heard on violins, John Kochanowski on viola, and Felix Wang on cello. Heard is the wife of Oak Ridge’s famous bassist Edgar Meyer, who has composed several pieces for the group.
The quartet’s program for the ORCMA concert includes Haydn’s Quartet No. 32 in C Major (The Bird), Opus 33, No. 3; selections from Images from a Close Ward, a piece written for the Blair String Quartet by composer Michael Hersch; and Beethoven’s Quartet, Opus 59, No. 1.
See the program notes for more information.
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