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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
YELLOW SPRINGS — A capacity crowd sat shoulder to shoulder in the pews at the First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs on Sunday evening to hear the Ying Quartet perform as part of the Chamber Music Yellow Springs concert series.
The weather was frigid, but the welcome was warm for the Chicago-based ensemble, which would otherwise have been attending Sunday's Grammy Award's ceremony in Los Angeles, where it was nominated in the best classical ensemble performance category.
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The quartet learned shortly before the Yellow Springs concert that it had not won (the group eighth blackbird took this year's award), but it gave a winning performance Sunday evening, nonetheless.
At first blush, the program appeared to be a diverse mix of musical eras, styles and geographical sources, ranging from Franz Joseph Haydn's Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1, to Maurice Ravel's Quartet in F Major to a collection of works by contemporary Chinese-American composers, which the group labled "A Musical Dim Sum," as in the also-named dining experience at a Chinese restaurant.
Part of the brilliance of the program, in addition to the stellar playing, was the connections that could be heard between the works.
The next concert on the Chamber Music Yellow Springs series will feature the Vogler Quartet of Berlin, Germany, performing March 30. Call (937) 374-8800 or go online to www.cmys.org.
Contact this writer at (937) 225-7309 or
csimmons@DaytonDailyNews.com.
