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unusual facts about The String Quartet



Third Eye Open: The String Tribute to Tool

Third Eye Open: The String Tribute to Tool is a cover album released in 2001 by The String Quartet, a rotating group of musicians from Los Angeles, who focus on tribute albums covering other bands' work through Vitamin Records.


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Ancora String Quartet

The Ancora String Quartet became the String Quartet In Residence at the First Unitarian Society of Madison in 2006.

Erwin Schulhoff

In 1928, the Flonzaley Quartet played the String Quartet No. 1 at their farewell New York concert between works of Beethoven and Brahms, and it was greeted enthusiastically.

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate

In 2012 a new commission by Impichchaachaaha' Tate for the string quartet ETHEL will be premiered at the Park Avenue Armory.

Kimo Williams

In October 2013 a new commission by Williams for the string quartet ETHEL will be premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Lola Bobesco

She founded two musical groups in Belgium: in 1958, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie in Liège; and in 1990, the string quartet L'Arte del Suono in Brussels.

Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project

In 2007 New York's WNYC aired a feature about the project on its program Soundcheck, narrated by Ralph Farris of the string quartet ETHEL.

Too Much Blood

The video opens with an excerpt from the first movement of the String Quartet Number 3 by Béla Bartók.

Viva! / Wintersun

"Wintersun" is a remix of the original version of "Winter" by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi and also a song of the string quartet.