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Metallica guitarist rocks SFSU chamber music gala | ||||
September 9, 2005 |
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The St. Lawrence String Quartet will also perform. Admission is $28 or $54. A limited number of tickets are still available and may be purchased by calling City Box Office at (415) 392-4400 or online at Morrison Artits Series Web site. The benefit concert is the first ticketed event in the history of the Morrison Artists Series. It is followed by five of the series' traditional free season concerts on Sunday afternoons at McKenna Theatre in the Creative Arts building on campus.
Presenting six free concerts each year, the series has logged 300 concerts in its history, featuring performers from more than 20 countries and the West Coast premieres of groups that are now regulars on international concert circuits including FLUX, St. Lawrence, eighth blackbird and Eroica Trio. San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman has called the series "indispensable." In a Sept. 7 Chronicle article on the upcoming gala, Kosman called the series "one of the Bay Area's best-kept secrets." The Morrison Artists Series is a program of SFSU's May Treat Morrison Chamber Music Center, established in 1955 by Edward Hohfeld to provide "the finest music in the most accessible way." Gropman, also an SFSU lecturer, became artistic director in 1989. That same year the center established a residency for the Alexander String Quartet in the SFSU College of Creative Arts, in a partnership with San Francisco Performances. Since joining SFSU, the Alexander String Quartet has directed the chamber music studies program in the University's School of Music and Dance, presenting music seminars, coaching students and providing outreach. -- Matt Itelson
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