Acclaimed String Quartet ETHEL Performs Julia Wolfe's Quartets as part of Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival 4/29

"Julia Wolfe’s powerful one-movement works, which combine the violent forward drive of rock music with an aura of minimalist serenity, use the four instruments as a big guitar, whipping psychedelic states of mind into frenzied and ecstatic climaxes.” – The New Yorker.  

At LONG PLAY Festival, New York’s electric string quartet ETHEL plays Early that summer, Four Marys, and Blue Dress by Julia Wolfe. Bang on a Can Co-Founder Julia Wolfe has turned the string quartet world upside down with these hip and innovative quartets. Her ferociously fresh works have been exciting audiences and critics for the last two decades. Heard on the stages of the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Other MindsFestival, and in the repertoires of the Kronos, Smith, and Mondrian quartets (among others), her quartets are some of the most celebrated and performed in the world. Wolfe's music conveys an intensity and intimacy, a virtuosity and joy of sound that turns the string quartet into a relentless high voltage vehicle of expression. 

Tickets Info:

Friday, April 29th @ 11:00 p.m. @ Roulette, 503 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11217

Tickets: $95 and Up for Festival Weekend. To purchase, visit LongPlayFestival.org.