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Join the Pacifica String Quartet at Boston’s famed Regattabar on April 11, 2008 at 7:00 pm. 

Known primarily for their featuring of cutting edge Jazz talent, the Regattabar’s showcase performance of the Pacifica String Quartet in conjunction with a student quartet of Longy’s top chamber music students will be available exclusively on BandDirector.com. The Pacifica String Quartet is in residency as the Visiting Artists in Chamber Music through 2010. Their partnership with the Longy School crosses all three divisions of the school (Conservatory, Preparatory and Continuing Studies).  http://www.pacificaquartet.com/about.html

 
Longy School of Music

 

 

 

 

Wayman Chin, Pianist, Chamber Music Chair
with Longy's finest Conservatory students

PROGRAM 

Quintet in A Major, opus 81, for piano and strings (1887) Antonín Dvoˇrák (1841–1904)
Allegro ma non tanto
Pacifica Quartet

Con moto for string quartet (world premiere) Adam J. Simon (b. 1987)
Longy Conservatory Students

Whipping Post (world premiere) Gregg Allman
arr. John Morrison (b. 1956)
Pacifica Quartet

Ellington Fantasy (three songs arranged for string quartet) arr. Paul Chihara (b. 1938)
I’m Beginning to See the Light
Take the A Train
Sophisticated Lady

Octet in E-flat Major for strings, opus 20 (Felix Mendelssohn (1810–1849)
Allegro moderato ma con fuoco
The Pacifica Quartet and Longy Conservatory Students