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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present String Quartet Chamber Music Concert — Cuarteto Latinoamericano — at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.
Winner of the 2012 and 2016 Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recordings, this outstanding quartet will perform their TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAS program, including Quartet No. 17 by Héitor Villa-Lobos, Lullaby by George Gershwin, Astor Piazzolla’s Four for Tango, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings Op. 11, and Quartet Op. 96 in F Major “American” by Antonin Dvorak.
More about Cuarteto Latinoamericano:
Cuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned classical music ensembles, for more than thirty years the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. They have premiered more than a hundred works written for them and they continue to introduce new and neglected composers to the genre. Winners of the 2012 and 2016 Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recordings, they have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award and three times received Chamber Music America/ASCAP’s “Most Adventurous Programming” Award.
Location: SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
$20 SBMA Members/$25 Non-Members
Get tickets at tickets.sbma.net