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Saturday, Step 7, 2009,

8PM Eckhardt-Gramatté Foyer, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue

Get ahead tickets for The Penderecki Cord Quartet are convenient at McNally Robinson Booksellers or by occupation the GroundSwell firm at 943-5770.

Tickets are: Adults $19 / Postpositive major $17 / Swotter $9.

For more knowledge about this concert, please ring up: (204) 943-5770 or gswell@mts.net

Curator: David R. Scott

GroundSwell is glad to up to date the super Penderecki Concur Quartet, one of the most illustrious senate ensembles of its fathering, in a concert of exhilarating new music. This evening of music will trait works by intercontinental composers, including Eight Colours for Terms Quartet by Grammy and Oscar give champ Tan Dun, as well as the hardly ever heard Run Quartet No. 3 by Andrzej Panufnik. The program will also advertise Canadian works by Katarina Curcin (Toronto), Ana Sokolovic (Montreal) and Winnipeg’s David R. Scott. The Penderecki Fibre Quartet was formed in Poland in 1986. Their new list has included concerts in New York, Amsterdam, St. Petersburg, Paris, Los Angeles and Atlanta, as well as appearances at worldwide festivals in Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Venezuela, and China. The Penderecki Concatenate Quartet champions music of our prematurely, performing a not on target file of repertoire from Franz Joseph Haydn to Unchecked Zappa as well as premiering over 100 new works to girlfriend. Described by Trumpet-blast Arsenal as “an collection of burdensome power and penetrating lilting consciousness”, the Penderecki Dominate Quartet’s multiform discography includes the senate music of Brahms and Shostakovich (Eclectra and Marquis labels) and the recently released Bartok run. They register their 16th year as Quartet-in-Residency at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada....

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