Need a break from end-of-semester stress? You're invited to bring your lunch and enjoy a free, classical music concert in the beautiful Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library. Duke's resident string quartet, the Ciompi Quartet, will perform Beethoven's String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2, "Rasumovsky."
The free, public performance will be a noon, Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library.
The Ciompi Quartet was founded at Duke University in 1965 by the renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi. All its members are professors at Duke and play a leading role in its cultural life, in addition to traveling widely throughout the year for performances.
In a career that includes many hundreds of concerts and spans five continents, the Ciompi Quartet has developed a reputation for performances of real intelligence and musical sophistication, and for a warm, unified sound that is enhanced by each player's strong individual voice.
For more information, call 919-660-3333 or visit music.duke.edu.