The Southern Theater Presents Brooklyn Rider: All Philip Glass Program

The Southern Theater presents Brooklyn Rider: All Philip Glass program Featuring the Minnesota premiere of Suite for String Quartet from Bent August 29, 2011

"The dazzling fingers-in-every-pie versatility that Brooklyn Rider exhibits is one of the wonders of contemporary music."
- LA Times

In anticipation of their 2011 CD release of the complete string quartets of Philip Glass, the adventurous, genre-defying string quartet Brooklyn Rider has been added to the Southern's 2010-11 music season lineup and returns this fall with an all Glass program featuring Buczak, Mishima, Company and the Minnesota premiere of Suite for String Quartet from Bent.

Brooklyn Rider combines a wildly eclectic repertoire with a gripping performance style that is attracting legions of fans and drawing critical acclaim from classical, world and rock critics. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with "recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble." The musicians play in concert halls and clubs, in venues as varied as Joe's Pub in New York City, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Todai-ji Temple in Japan, the Library of Congress and the South by Southwest Festival. Through creative programming and global collaborations, Brooklyn Rider illuminates music for its audiences in ways that are "stunningly imaginative" (Lucid Culture).

Performance: August 29, 2011
Mon. at 7:30pm
Tickets: $25, $12 student rush

Southern Theater box office: 612.340.1725
1420 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55454
http://www.southerntheater.org

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