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The Vermeer String Quartet Performs Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ Thursday, April 10


by Marci Janas '91

 


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The internationally renowned Vermeer String Quartet brings its acclaimed program of Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ to Finney Chapel Thursday, April 10 at 8 p.m. The performance will be broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM, Cleveland's classical music radio station, and simulcast on the Internet at wclv.com.

A pre-concert lecture by the ensemble's violist, Richard Young, and cellist, Marc Johnson, will take place in Finney Chapel at 7 p.m.

Guest narrators for this masterpiece are noted theologian Martin Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, and Grover Zinn, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Oberlin College.

Seating for this event, which is presented under the auspices of Oberlin's Artist Recital Series, is general admission. Call Oberlin's Central Ticket Service at 440-775-8169 to order advance tickets and to take advantage of a special "buy one get one free" offer. Ticket prices are $6 for students and children, $8 for those with an Oberlin College I.D., senior citizens, and educators, and $12 for the general public. Tickets purchased at the door are an additional $2.

Professor Marty will deliver a free public lecture, "Awash in a Sea of Religious Pluralism," Thursday at 12:20 p.m. in the West Lecture Hall of the Oberlin Science Center.

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