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Takacs Quartet

August 26, 2024, 8:00 pm

The Takács Quartet (Photo credit: Amanda Tipton)

A thrilling concert from the world-renowned string quartet features music by Maurice Ravel and Antonín Dvořák.

Performance recorded at Ravinia on July 7th, 2024.

Playlist

Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, op. 51

Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major

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Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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