- Sponsor
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Contact
- Sean Kutzko
- sekutzko@illinois.edu
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- 32
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
The Irish-English composer Elizabeth Maconchy's hauntingly beautiful third quartet emerged out of the shadows of 1930s Europe. Carlos Simon’s heartbreaking Elegy memorializes the Black American victims of police violence, while Nathan Shield’s new quartet, Medusa, composed for the Jupiter Quartet for Shields’ Guggenheim Fellowship, explores the effects of various types of political and social violence.