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quartet

[kwawr-tet] / kwɔrˈtɛt /




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The experiment failed — none of the quartet advanced beyond Class-A — yet Fontaine maintained the sunny outlook he inherited from his father.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

The “Beef” quartet — Mulligan and Oscar Isaac playing striving, bickering millennials, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeney as their younger, equally desperate counterparts — split their submissions between lead and supporting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

One unusual aspect of these works is that they were not composed on the piano but directly on the sax, with fellow quartet members Hamiet Bluiett, Oliver Lake and David Murray in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The fact that a quartet of such caliber signed on to this dreck would be surprising if Netflix’s M.O. weren’t trapping great actors in middling movies.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Blevins also sings in a quartet called the Gospel Gentlemen.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

String quartets strummed their way through classical covers of pop hits.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026

There would be many awards, nine Grammys among them, including two for the ensemble’s 1980s recordings of Béla Bartók’s string quartets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

One led to another, and Riley has by now produced the most impressive large body of string quartets, 30 strong, since Haydn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2025

We are spoiled with great recordings of the Shostakovich string quartets, so you might wonder why we need yet another set.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2024

The reason for this is that, like Beethoven’s late quartets, Chopin’s music is unusually intimate.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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