Monk, Bach and Beyond: The ETHEL Quartet with Ron Carter at Carnegie Hall
In advance of ETHEL Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut, cellist Dorothy Lawson speaks with US correspondent Thomas May about their collaboration with the programme’s featured guest artist, legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter.
Since its founding in 1998, ETHEL has been redefining what it means to be a modern string quartet. The ensemble’s tireless curiosity motivates both its approach to repertoire – in lieu of the conventional canon, a broad spectrum of music that speaks to contemporary audiences – and the search for artistic alliances that expand the quartet’s expressive range.
On its latest album, for example – Persist – ETHEL invited flutist and composer Allison Loggins-Hull to explore a series of works celebrating ‘the ability of people in times of difficulty to persist through courage, hope and patience’.
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