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cypress string quartet

A James and Vera Olson Fund Concert
Monday, October 12, 2009, 7 p.m.
Jesse Auditorium
$17 general admission | BUY ONLINE

The Cypress String Quartet fuses tradition with technology in Inspired by America, a spirited multimedia collaboration. Dr. Jacob Needleman, author of best selling book The American Soul, gives insightful commentary to Inspired by America’s original film segments set against a backdrop of American art, photographs, landscapes and film clips, including excerpts from pieces by American jazz legend Charles Mingus. These film segments will be shown onstage behind the musicians. The Cypress provides the unifying force for the performance with some of the finest chamber music composed in the United States.  

Enjoy movements from pieces such as:
Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Dvorak’s American Quartet,
Griffes’ Two Sketches on Native American Themes and Ives' String Quartet #1.

Find the Cypress String Quartet online here

More about the program Inspired by America

Purchase the book The American Soul from Amazon

Links for educators:
Study guide | Inspired by America and the state curriculum

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