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1999-2000 HIGHLIGHTS
Beethoven 2000
Last spring, The Orion String Quartet was featured in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's remarkable BEETHOVEN 2000 project, a series of concerts intended as a gift of music to New York City. On May 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, and 23, the Orionsl presented Beethoven's complete, monumental string quartet cycle at Lincoln Center, free to the public. The Quartet helped
conceive of the idea where each concert celebrated a different charitable
organization in New York City that benefits children within their communities.
For further information, please visit the CultureFinder website.
The Orion String Quartet Premiers Newly Discovered Beethoven String Quartet on ABC's "Good Morning America"
On November 23rd, 1999, the Orion String Quartet appeared live on ABC's "Good Morning America" show to give the first North American performance of a previously unknown work of Ludwig van Beethoven. This complete string quartet in the key of B minor, composed in 1817 for an Englishman named Richard Ford is only 23 bars in length and bears the inscription "This quartette was composed for me in my presence by Ludwig v. Beethoven at Vienna Friday 28th November 1817 Richard Ford."
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