Review
Arts Renaissance Tremont: Cavani Quartet & Okantah
Download article as PDF by Nicholas Stevens “…or does it explode?” In a concert last week on the Arts Renaissance Tremont series, the poet Mwatabu Okantah spoke this line from Langston Hughes’s Harlem as the final chord of a movement from Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 resounded. While the [...]
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Cavani String Quartet, 11:17am by Jennifer Cho Salaff
Music is the universal language of [wo]mankind. It was a wonderful treat to sit in on a recent rehearsal with the Cavani String Quartet. How did I get so lucky to watch magic happen right before my eyes? This powerhouse foursome (Annie Fullard and Mari Sato on violins, Kirsten Docter on viola, [...]
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‘Collage’ Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Through Poetry, Song
Last night the words and spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. filled the African Community Theatre in Oscar Ritchie for the concert “Collage: Poetry and Music.” The concert was the Center of Pan-African Culture and the Department of Pan-African Studies’ annual program to celebrate the [...]
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Cavani Interviewed for the American Suzuki Journal
“It was a pleasure to interview the Cavani String Quartet for the SAA Board’s series “Meet Our Honorary Board Members.” We had an engaging hour filled with intellectual conversation, passion towards music and music education, as well as tons of laughter. This is a quartet that lives its craft [...]
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The Cavani String Quartet The Cleveland Plain Dealer Lauds Cavani
“Together, these players make music with passionate conviction, as if their lives depended on interaction. Expressive intensity, shapely phrasing and ultra-sensitive attention to nuances have become Cavani hallmarks. …this powerful and poetic performance was an example of the special joy [...]
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