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quartet

[kwawr-tet] / kwɔrˈtɛt /




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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

Other pieces have the complexity of a Schoenberg quartet.

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

England's quartet of seamers once again overwhelmed Pakistan to put the home side on the verge of a series win on the second day of the second Test at Lord's.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The barbershop quartet was working up to its big finish.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

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

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026

The evening began with one of two string quartets by Laura Valborg Aulin, a Swede who died in 1928 and is the sole female classical composer featured at this year’s festival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Throughout the 1950s, the ensemble made a series of revelatory LPs for Capitol Records performing the late Beethoven string quartets and much else, while also joining Frank Sinatra in his torchy classic, “Close to You.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025

It’s difficult to imagine even the earliest of Shostakovich’s quartets without some grit in the sound.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2024

People in New York loved art and music so much, she said, that artists sold paintings right on the sidewalk next to string quartets playing Mozart.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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