Critic at large Ed Siegel says goodbye to the Emerson String Quartet, his old favorite, but has a young group to keep him company, the Danish String Quartet. Both are coming to NEC's Jordan Hall as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston.
It might be a stretch to call them the Beatles of classical music, but if the Liverpudlians gave me a deeper appreciation of blues and R&B-based music, the Emersonians opened my eyes to the elegant soulfulness of string quartets.
But sometime in the late ‘80s, a friend asked if I wanted to see the Emerson String Quartet perform an all-Beethoven concert in Woodstock, New York, I had a better time there than I did at the Woodstock rock and mud festival in the ‘60s. And to quote Bela Lugosi, “What music they make.” I’ve been going to almost all their Celebrity Series of Boston concerts since then and many of their Tanglewood concerts as well. Their hair has gone grayer since Woodstock and they've sat back down since deciding at the turn of the millennium that their tone was better standing up. Time and gravity march on even as the music remains masterful.
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