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Emerson String Quartet to perform at Center

The Emerson String Quartet returns to the Orange County Performing Arts

Center April 14 with a concert of Shostakovich, Haydn and Debussy works.

Considered one of the foremost interpreters of Shostakovich’s works, the

quartet’s recent five-concert series at Lincoln Center in New York was

met with high critical acclaim.

The group is named after the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson and is

comprised of violinists Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer and Lawrence Dutton

and cellist David Finckel. The quartet has received four Grammy Awards

and has appeared at almost every chamber music series and festival the

world over.

The concert in Founders Hall will consist of Shostakovich’s Quartet No.

13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 (1970), and Haydn’s Quartet in D-minor, Op.

76, No. 2, “Fifth’s” and Debussy’s Quartet in G-minor, Op. 10.

Tickets to the Emerson String Quartet are $44. For tickets or more

information, call (714) 740-7878 or (213) 365-3500.

OCC stages one-act play festival

OCC will stage a performance of one-act plays April 14 and 15 and April

21 through 23 during the college’s annual spring One-Act Play Festival.

The short plays will showcase the talents of student actors, directors,

designers and writers, and a number of original plays will be performed.

Rounding out the program are plays from classical and contemporary

literature.

The festival will be in OCC’s Drama Lab Studio.

Tickets are $5. For more information, call (714) 432-5640, Ext. 1.

Andreas Scholl to appear at Center

Andreas Scholl, the German countertenor who has garnered praise for his

recitals in Europe, makes his North American debut in Founders Hall at

the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Scholl has been described as “a voice that is phenomenally beautiful,

pure, sweet-toned and agile -- allied to musical imagination of the

highest order” by London Times music critic Rodney Milnes.

Tickets to Scholl’s recital are $40. For tickets or more information,

call (714) 740-7878 or (213) 365-3500.