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Vol. 21, No. 150
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Meridian Quartet members, from left, Karl Pedersen, Anne Lee, Anastasia Storer and Claude Halter, will perform from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday during a free concert at Yampa River Botanic Park. It will be the first Strings Music Festival’s Music on the Green free summer concert of the season.
Reaching out with Strings Young Artists in Residence to give several community concerts Margaret Hair
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On Tuesday afternoon, the four musicians of Meridian Quartet shook off their jetlag, tuned up their instruments and lilted through a George Gershwin string quartet they hadn’t played in two and a half months. Violist Karl Pedersen had just driven into town from
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Miami, and violinist Claude Halter recently got back from a trip home to Paris. Bringing diverse backgrounds to the mix, Meridian Quartet will play free concerts the next three Thursdays as Strings Music Festival’s 2009 Young Artists in Residence. The first show is from 12:15
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to 1 p.m. Thursday at Yampa River Botanic Park and will be an introduction to the string quartet, Pedersen said. Along with Anastasia Storer on violin and Anne Lee on cello, all four members of Meridian are fellows with the Miamibased New World Symphony, an organization that bills itself as “America’s orchestral academy.” During two and a half weeks of concerts, outreach and
coaching, the quartet hopes it can share a love of classical music with the community. “I think the goal of the program is to have a variety of music from different genres and different centuries,” Pedersen said. Each of the quartet’s sets has a theme, he said. Meridian will get coaching from veteran Strings commentator Ken Greene about how to connect See Strings, back page
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