Concert Report
Performing Ensemble: Ying Quartet
Date and Location: April 8, 2014- 7:30 P.M
LaSells Stewart Center
Corvallis, OR
Repertoire Performed: Quartet Op 11 by Samuel Barber, Alleluia by Randall Thompson, Awakening by Billy Childs, Quartet in A minor Op 132 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Overall evaluation/Music appeal:
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The performers did a fantasti...
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