ETHEL … plays their repertoire vigorously and
cultivates a persona closer to (that) of a rock band
than of a conventional string quartet.
—The New York Times
The 1970s was a restless, intelligent, dissatisfied time—a decade
of contradictions, a decade of loss, a decade of discovery.
Visionary string quartet ETHEL celebrates this vibrant era with
an explosive, beautiful collaboration with 1970s icon Todd
Rundgren—a visionary in his own right—in a program that is
scheduled to include Lou Harrison’s String Quartet Set (1972), Kimo
Williams’s Quiet Shadows, arrangements of music by Sun Ra
and a fascinating new work by rising star Judd Greenstein.
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