Today at 2 p.m., Brooklyn Rider will perform at the MPR booth at the State Fair, located near the corner of Judson and Nelson. Performance Today's Fred Child Hosts. This performance will also be broadcast live on Classical MPR.
Brooklyn Rider is an adventurous string quartet that combines eclectic repertoire with a gripping performance style that continues to attract fans and draw critical acclaim from classical, world, and rock critics.
Brooklyn Rider comprises Johnny Gandelsman, Colin Jacobsen, Nicholas Cords, and Eric Jacobsen.
Born out of a desire to use the rich medium of the string quartet as a vehicle for communication across a large span of history and geography, Brooklyn Rider is equally devoted to the interpretation of existing quartet literature and to the creation of new works.
The quartet's name is inspired in part by the cross-disciplinary vision of Der Blau Reiter (The Blue Rider), a pre-World War I Munich-based artistic collective whose members included Vassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Arnold Schoenberg, and Alexander Scriabin. In the eclectic spirit of Der Blau Reiter, the group also draws inspiration from the exploding array of cultures and artistic energy found in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, a place it calls home.
View and listen to a performance by Brooklyn Rider here:
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