The university can be a dangerous place for art-makers, because its security blunts the risks of failure. Often art in the academy has lost its highs and lows. But first-rate artists do sometimes ...

The Rolston Quartet. Photo courtesy of the Rolston Quartet. The Rolston Quartet, the new quartet-in-residence at Rice University’s Shepherd School, presents a recital Sunday afternoon at the MFAH in ...

The great American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson played an integral role in the foundation of the philosophy of “American pragmatism.” This system tried to fuse American industry with ...

The Rolston String Quartet. Photo courtesy of the Rolston Quartet. The Aperio, Music of the Americas chamber series begins its season Sunday with “American Dreams,” the first Houston recital by the ...

A movie last year called A Late Quartettold the traumatic story of what happens when a famous string quartet has to change personnel. But, in fact, most string quartets — like symphony orchestras, ...

Duke Performances hosts Cuarteto Casals, the first internationally famous string quartet from Spain. Since its founding in 1997, the foursome has recorded 11 CDs and played throughout Europe, North ...

The Meridian Ensemble will be closing its performance season with the famous String Quartet in F Major by Maurice Ravel. Also on the program are Mozart's The Hunt String Quartet and several musical ...

Even many diehard classical music fans haven’t heard of Pavel Haas. But after a young string quartet bearing his name takes the Cabell Hall Auditorium stage in the next Tuesday Evening Concert Series ...