Events

Let me be clear: This is not a writeup or a preview. It is a command. You must go to Slee Hall on UB’s North Campus this weekend—Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, and Sunday at 3pm—to hear the Miró Quartet perform the last three concerts of this year’s Beethoven Cycle. I order you to do this not only because over the near two decades of its formation the Miró has astonished audiences with playing that “gave lessons in the art of the string quartet, shaping each night’s scores with a blend of refinement and vibrancy that drew the listener deeply inside the sonic arguments” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). I insist on this not just that this annual cycle, now in its 59^th year, is probably the longest running endowed concert cycle of these great works in the world, and at a dirt-cheap bargain price ($15 for the general public, $10 for seniors, UB faculty/staff/alumni and non-UB students, and free to UB students with ID) compared to what you would pay to hear them in any of the concert venues the Miró have played around the globe. It is, finally and unequivocally, because it is a not-to-be-missed chance to hear what arguably are the greatest string quartets of all time, composed with, in Nicholas Slominsky’s estimation, “unsurpassed genius, expressed with supreme mastery, revealing an extraordinary power of invention, [which] marked a historic turn in the art of composition.”