One of the best and best-known American chamber ensembles, the Guarneri String Quartet is coming to Bates College for a rare Maine appearance, performing in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall at 8 p.m.

Some concerts are about the music itself while others are more about the performers playing the music. And some concerts, like Thursday's by the Guarneri String Quartet, are about both.After 45 years, ...

The Guarneri String Quartet will hold a master-class on Sunday, Oct. 25 from 2 to 4 p.m., followed by a performance at 7:30 p.m. The class and the performance will be in Reves Recital Hall on the ...

Joseph Haydn was one of those guys who got better with age. Most of his peers among the great composers wrote great music throughout their careers. But the "Father of the String Quartet" grew, piece ...

Many silly things have been written on Beethoven’s Quartet in A minor. Most (in)famously, numerous 19th century commentators made much of Beethoven’s supposed illness at the time of its composition, ...

Michael Tree, a founding member of the Guarneri String Quartet, the remarkably long-lived group that helped rekindle interest in chamber music in the 1960s and ‘70s and continued to perform until 2009 ...

“I can’t imagine four musicians more different from one another in certain ways than we are,” said Arnold Steinhardt, first violin of the renowned Guarneri String Quartet. Guarneri was no ordinary ...

'There's been so much interest and response, we could give a farewell tour every year for the next 10 years," said violinist Arnold Steinhardt, a founding member, along with violinist John Dalley and ...

Were it a car, the Guarneri String Quartet would be a 1964 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud III. Only so luxurious a touring vehicle can serve as an analogy to an ensemble with an ultra-plush, million-dollar ...

One morning a few years ago, Arnold Steinhardt heard a strange rumbling in the distance. The rumbling got closer and closer until it was deafening. It was a Caterpillar tractor that had come to break ...

How do you decide to close the books on a nearly unparalleled 45-year career at the pinnacle of the chamber music world? If you're the members of the Guarneri String Quartet, you do it practically on ...