{"id":2136,"date":"2009-03-15T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2015-02-01T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T21:31:56","slug":"ebene-quartet-comes-to-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/15\/ebene-quartet-comes-to-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebene quartet comes to portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ebnfr_33.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2137\" title=\"ebnfr_33\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ebnfr_33-400x400.jpg?resize=400%2C400\" alt=\"ebnfr_33\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Monday and Tuesday (March 16 -17) the young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quatuorebene.com\/en?PHPSESSID=181c2ac2838c3986f3e286fc0ba7d529\">Ebene\u00a0Quartet<\/a> comes to Portland play on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focm.org\/cla4.htm\">Friends of Chamber Music<\/a> series. \u00a0The Monday program, at the First United Methodist Church, will feature the rarely performed Faur\u00e9\u00a0String Quartet op. 121, as well as a late Haydn quartet and Schubert&#8217;s ever-present &#8220;Death and the Maiden&#8221;. \u00a0Tuesday night (which I hope to attend), at Reed College&#8217;s Kaul Auditorium, is an all-Beethoven evening, with all three periods represented, with his op. 18\/1, 59\/1, and the massive, non-stop C-sharp minor op. 131.<\/p>\n<p>You can get tickets by calling the FOCM ticket office at 503.224.9842, or at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/search?tm_link=Search_set_location&amp;q=ebene+quartet&amp;search.x=0&amp;search.y=0\">Ticketmaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Chamber Music writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ebene Quartet is distinguished by its open-mindedness and versatility, displaying equal facility in the classical repertoire, contemporary music, and jazz. \u00a0The Quartet is the recipient of several international prizes including First Prize of the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich. Their recent live Haydn CD (Mirare, Harmonia Mundi) received unanimous world wide praise, including recognition as <em>Album of the Month<\/em>\u009d by The Strad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reviews have been good on their US tour:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/flawless-ear-for-beauty-quatuor-ebene.html\">Ionarts review <\/a>&#8211; &#8220;A Flawless Ear for Beauty&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/14\/arts\/music\/14eben.html\">New York Times<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;A String Quartet That Can Easily Morph Into a Jazz Band<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They have a critically acclaimed CD out on the Virgin Classics label, featuring, tidily enough, an all French program of the string quartets of Debussy, Ravel and Faur\u00c3\u00a9. Buy it as an mp3 download here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/B001IBC9A4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dailyobservat-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001IBC9A4\">\u00c3\u2030b\u00c3\u00a8ne Quartet: Debussy, Faur\u00c3\u00a9, Ravel: String Quartets<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ir?t=dailyobservat-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001IBC9A4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, or buy a physical CD here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/B001BWQWKS?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dailyobservat-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001BWQWKS\">Quatuor \u00c3\u2030b\u00c3\u00a8ne Performs Ravel, Debussy &amp; Faur\u00c3\u00a9<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ir?t=dailyobservat-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001BWQWKS\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short video clip from WNYC on the quartet&#8217;s recent concert at the club Le Poisson Rouge:<\/p>\n<p><object data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CvVyGs7UoqY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CvVyGs7UoqY\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re planning any encores, but there&#8217;s a chance that this adaptation of the music from the movie <em>Pulp Fiction<\/em> might be heard at the close of one of their concerts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SApSILYF9Mo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SApSILYF9Mo\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday and Tuesday (March 16 -17) the young Ebene\u00a0Quartet comes to Portland play on the Friends of Chamber Music series. \u00a0The Monday program, at the First United Methodist Church, will feature the rarely performed Faur\u00e9\u00a0String Quartet op. 121, as well as a late Haydn quartet and Schubert&#8217;s ever-present &#8220;Death and the Maiden&#8221;. \u00a0Tuesday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,115,13],"tags":[501,386,3662,483],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-music","category-video","tag-beethoven","tag-friends-of-chamber-music","tag-portland","tag-schubert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-ys","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2335,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/15\/american-string-quartet-concerts-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":2136,"position":0},"title":"american string quartet concerts online","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"If you were not able to make it to the American String Quartet's Friends of Chamber Music performance this past Monday night, you're in luck, as the concert is available for streaming online at InstantEncore.com.\u00c2\u00a0 It's a cool program: Haydn's Op 76\/2, Irving Fine's String Quartet, and the great C-sharp\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"audio","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"39084c","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/39084c-400x275.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13993,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/03\/arnica-quartet-noontime-concert-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":2136,"position":1},"title":"arnica quartet noontime concert today","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're free at midday today, I invite you to a free concert that my string quartet is giving as part of the University of Portland's Music at Midweek series. 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