November 10, 2000

Turtle Island String Quartet to perform at Loyola

The College of Music and TIAA-CREF present the Turtle Island String Quartet on Sunday, November 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Roussel Performance Hall. General admission is $15 and student admission is $5.

Since it's 1986 inception in Oakland, California, the Turtle Island String Quartet (TISQ) has been a singular force in the creation of bold new trends in chamber music for strings. Cellist Yo Yo Ma has proclaimed TISQ to be "a unified voice that truly breaks new ground­authentic and passionate­a reflection of some of the most creative music-making today." By Turtle Island's fusing of the classical quartet esthetic with 20th century American popular styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors both, the state of the art has inevitably been redefined.

TISQ incorporates folk, bluegrass, swing jazz, be-bop, post-bop, classical Indian forms, funk, R&B, New Age, rock, hip-hop, bossa nova and salsa...a repertoire consisting of hundreds of ingenious arrangements and originals. The recipe also calls for an adventurous blending of these ingredients to create completely new textures and forms. From their unusual and endemic "re-compositions" of works by the "old masters," to the development of repertory by some of today's cutting edge young composers, to performances and recording with major symphonic ensembles, TISQ promises to be a string quartet for the next century.

This concert is sponsored by a generous grant from TIAA-CREF. For more information, contact Reid Wick at ext. 2074 or via email at wick@loyno.edu. Additional information is available through Loyola's ticket box office at ext. 3492.