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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tonight: Cassatt String Quartet gives Texas premiere to Dan Welcher composition
The Cassatt Quartet — the New York-based all-female string quartet — has crafted its acclaimed reputation over the past two decades as being a champion of work by living composers.
The Quartet commissioned noted Austin composer Dan Welcher to write the namesake piece. Tonight, the group will give Welcher’s String Quartet No. 3 “Cassatt” its Texas premiere at the University of Texas’ McCullough Theatre.
The piece is also included on the groups latest release on Naxos Records, “Dan Welcher: String Quartet’s Nos. 1-3.” Thursday’s program also include’s Welcher’s String Quartet No. 2 “Harbor Music.”
Cassatt String Quartet
8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17
McCullough Theatre, University of Texas, 2350 Robert Dedman Drive
$30
www.utpac.org
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Trouble Puppet Theatre forays into ‘The Jungle’
Trouble Puppet Theater Company unveils a new production of Upton Sinclair’s novel ‘The Jungle’ this weekend.
Puppet master Connor Hopkins offers a new visually-striking riff on Sinclair’s groundbreaking expose of the exploitative early 20th century labor conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry — as well as the horrifying, unsanitary practices involved in food production.
With food contamination issues still making headlines and an historical recession calling into question America’s labor landscape, perhaps the puppets have something to tell us.
Read more about this story here.
‘The Jungle’
8 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 4
Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Road
$15
www.troublepuppet.com
