When it comes to string quartet culture on Santa Barbara’s concert calendar, the bar is set high. In any given season, and during the summer flowering of the Music Academy of the West’s stellar ...

Into the Irvine Barclay Theatre on Tuesday night, the Tokyo String Quartet carried with it not only the question that dogs all legendary quartets – does it still have it? – but the extra burden of ...

Lots of legends were spawned in 1969: Broadway Joe Namath earned a ring in Superbowl III, the Woodstock Festival put an Aquarian spin on the concert experience, and Neil Armstrong placed his foot on ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Yale School of Music announced yesterday that two members of the Tokyo String Quartet, which ...

At the end of the current concert season, the quartet will disband. Formed in 1969 by four Japanese string players, the Tokyo Quartet soon became a force to be reckoned with in chamber music, through ...

TROY — An era in chamber music comes to an end this year as the famed Tokyo String Quartet disbands. The group was formed in 1969 at Juilliard and has had some membership changes over the years. But ...

Virtually everyone writing about the Tokyo String Quartet's final tour this year is drawn to the word "bittersweet," and with good reason: After 43 seasons, the group gave its farewell Boston concert ...

It's time to say goodbye: After more than 40 years, the members of Tokyo String Quartet have decided they will disband at the end of the 2012-13 season. Several months ago, the group had announced ...

The Tokyo String Quartet is one of the premier quartets touring, and its reputation is one reason why, for the Tuesday opening of the 2006-07 Houston Friends of Music season, Rice University's Stude ...

Returning to the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts after a 12-year hiatus, the Tokyo String Quartet on Friday reestablished its sometimes debated standing as a major player in the hierarchy of ...