Spotlight: String Quartet tackles ‘Black Angels’
The Spokane String Quartet is planning something unusual for today’s concert.
The group will be tackling George Crumb’s avant garde 1971 piece “Black Angels,” which incorporates sounds created by crystal glasses, maracas, gongs, glass rods and thimbles. According to a news release from the quartet, the work also will incorporate amplified string instruments as it depicts vignettes from hell.
The more traditional works on the agenda include Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 13 (“Death and the Maiden”), and Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7.
The concert will be at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave., beginning at 3 p.m. today. General admission tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for students. They’re available at TicketsWest locations, by phone at (800) 225-SEAT, online at www.spokanestringquartet.org or at the door.
Members of the string quartet are violinists Mateusz Wolski and Amanda Howard-Phillips, violist
McManus in love with EWU
A production of “McManus in Love” starring Tim Behrens will be staged at 7 p.m. Saturday at Eastern Washington University’s Showalter Auditorium to benefit the EWU scholarship fund.
That, we already know. What we didn’t know is that the man behind the McManus stories, best-selling author and EWU professor emeritus Pat McManus, will be on hand to sign books and DVDs before the show, at intermission and afterward.