Juilliard String Quartet 
Madison-Morgan Cultural Center
June 26th at 8:00 pm


Tickets on sale to OPAS Members at the OPAS Box Office April 21, 2009.
OPAS Box Office: 706-999-1518 (Monday - Friday, 10am to 4pm)

Tickets on sale to the General Public at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center
April 21, 2009.

"The Juilliard continues to amaze with the freshness and intensity it
invariably brings to every corner of its vast repertory."
- New York Times



OPAS continues its support of the Madison Chamber Music Festival this year by

sponsoring the Juilliard String Quartet on Friday, June 26th at 8pm. The concert 

is scheduled take place in the historic auditorium of the Madison-Morgan Cultural
 
Center and will include the works of Beethoven, Haydn and Mendelssohn. This year’s
 
festival will run from Monday, June 15th through Sunday, June 28th. If you would like
 
additional information regarding the Juilliard String Quartet or any other festival
 
performance, please call the Madison-Morgan Cultural  Center at (877) 233-0598                               Photo by Nana Watanabe

 or visit them online at www.mmcc-arts.org.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                

Founded in 1946 by Robert Mann, Robert Koff, Raphael Hillyer, and Arthur Winograd, the ever-evolving JUILLIARD STRING

QUARTET has become a living American legend. From the beginning and throughout its career, it has been recognized

for the boldness of its interpretation of the classics, with an equal and parallel tradition of championing the new — a

vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring. In a history of "Firsts," the Juilliards have played the world premieres of

works by more than 60 American composers. These premiers are in and amongst thousands of performances of the great

classics of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms; and the complete Beethoven cycles. The Juilliards' own scoring of Bach's

Art of the Fugue toured in many capitals of the world, including New York, Tokyo, Bonn, and most recently Washington, D.C.,

where they have been the Quartet in Residence at the Library of Congress for more than four decades — the celebrated

"First Family" of chamber music in the United States. The Juilliard Quartet's sound is famously characterized by clarity of

structure, compelling rhythmic drive and an extraordinary unanimity of purpose, no matter the work.



“There is nothing priggish about chamber music, at least not in Madison. Watching performers
up-close-and-personal as they put so much passion into producing every note is an intense encounter
with the human spirit.”
-Ramsey Nix, Lake Oconee Living Magazine