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Emerson String Quartet to explore late Haydn with one-night immersion at Ravinia Festival

Jul 4, 2016 – 6:51 am
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Preview: Philip Setzer, founding violinist with the celebrated Emerson String Quartet, calls the sort of program his foursome will play at the Ravina Festival on July 5 a form of biography: a body of works from the hand of a single composer. In this case, it’s the six quartets of Haydn’s Op. 76, which took the Austrian master – and the form – to a new place.