{"id":55215,"date":"2018-08-20T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=55215"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T23:05:57","slug":"mooredale-concerts-new-orford-string-quartet","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/mooredale-concerts-new-orford-string-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooredale Concerts | New Orford String Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violinists\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Crow<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Andrew Wan<\/strong>\u00a0are concertmasters of the Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras,\u00a0<strong>Brian Manker<\/strong>\u00a0is principal cello in Montreal and\u00a0<strong>Eric Nowlin<\/strong>, principal viola at the Detroit Symphony. They formed in 2009, following the footsteps of the original Orford Quartet, Canada\u2019s internationally admired ensemble.<\/p>\n<p>Their concept \u2013 to bring four elite orchestral leaders together on a regular basis over many years to perform chamber music at the highest level \u2013 has resulted in a quartet that maintains a remarkably fresh and virtuosic perspective. While they tour major North American cities, the players also feel strongly about bringing their performances to small rural towns, and performing works by Canadian composers. They are 2017 JUNO winners for best classical album.<\/p>\n<p>They will perform a spectacular\u00a0<strong>all-Beethoven program<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 String quartets\u00a0<strong><em>No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 74 \u201cHarp\u201d, No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and<strong><em>\u00a0No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 131.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201c\u2026unfailingly lean, silvery beauty\u2026showed a mastery that cooled Brahms\u2019 anguish just a little and took some of the bluntness off the Beethoven.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0-Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201c\u2026nothing short of electrifying\u2026These four string virtuosos animate every note with uncommon power and passion as well as elegance. Listen and weep.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0-The Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violinists\u00a0Jonathan Crow\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Wan\u00a0are concertmasters of the Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras,\u00a0Brian Manker\u00a0is principal cello in Montreal and\u00a0Eric Nowlin, principal viola at the Detroit Symphony. They formed in 2009, following the footsteps of the original Orford Quartet, Canada\u2019s internationally admired ensemble. Their concept \u2013 to bring four elite orchestral leaders together on a regular basis over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5052],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55216,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/55215\/revisions\/55216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55215"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=55215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}