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quartet

[kwawr-tet] / kwɔrˈtɛt /




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But all of that changed with “Yesterday,” which Martin adorned with a string quartet.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

Vernon and Tanfield were part of the Team GB quartet beaten by Australia in the Paris Olympics final.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

The new-look quartet will aim to dethrone the New York Knicks and chase James’s fifth championship.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

On May 15, according to NBC, he “dumped six figures’ worth of stock in a quartet of companies that manage nearly half of all Medicaid enrollees.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

I've had a great rehearsal, a beautiful Beethoven string quartet.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

There is some loss of energy and intensity in the first two quartets, but, beginning with the Third, the Casals manages to hold spaciousness and intensity in a delicate balance.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2024

This fall, the Calidore returns to Colburn to survey a hometown composer, the Hollywood film-score icon Erich Wolfgang Korngold, playing his little-known three string quartets in the first program, in Zipper Hall.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2024

In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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