STANFORD - Calder Quartet with Gloria Cheng, Piano

Premiere Pianist Gloria Cheng is the only alumna to have earned both a B.A. in Economics and a Grammy Award (for "Best Instrumental Soloist"). Her collaborators, the fearless Calder Quartet, are co-founders of the Carlsbad Music Festival and, like Cheng, have built their reputation by demonstrating their insight into both standard and contemporary quartet fare. Weighty masterworks by Schnittke (with Cheng joining the Quartet) and Shostakovich frame the West Coast premiere of a new, Calder-commissioned work by Pulitzer prize–winner Christopher Rouse. String Quartet No. 3 is, by Rouse's account, loaded with very fast rhythms, many with asymmetrical syncopations achieved by a small, simpatico group such as the Calders. Program Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110; Christopher Rouse: Quartet No. 3 (Bay Area premiere)

Time: 8 p.m. 4–50. Address: Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA. 725-2787. livelyarts.stanford.edu

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