If you are looking for an inexpensive family outing on Father's Day, you may want to consider a Free for All at Town Hall concert featuring the world famous Emerson String Quartet. This chamber music group will be gracing the stage at Town Hall at 5:00 p.m. for the final concert of this series. Free tickets for this all Schubert event will be given out beginning at noon on Sunday, June 21, 2009 at New York's Town Hall. This is a wonderful way to introduce your loved ones to the joys and sonorities of classical music.
The Emerson String Quartet has been performing for over 30 years and has won eight Grammy Awards (including two for Best Classical Album, an unprecedented honor for a chamber music group), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize and the Smithson Award. They have received recognition of their accomplishments to the state of Connecticut by the Governor, have received the University Medal for Distinguished Service from the University of Hartford where they were quartet-in-residence for two decades until 2002, and have received honorary doctorates from Middlebury College in Vermon, Wooster College and most recently Bard College.
If you cannot attend the concert but would like to learn more about this quartet, please feel free to come to the library for their recordings.
