string quartet
noun
1
: a composition for string quartet
2
: a quartet of performers on stringed instruments usually including a first and second violin, a viola, and a cello
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Celebrating all kinds of art, the Manatee Performing Arts Center is home to two venues that host everything from Broadway shows to ballets to string quartets.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
Treat yourself to Austin’s homebase string quartet with their guests from the Isadore String Quartet.
Nov. 15: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Memorial Auditorium.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 3 July 2025
Eakins walked down the aisle as a string quartet and two French horn players performed live.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 22 May 2025
Along the way, the Takacs that once carried forward the great Hungarian tradition of string quartets has morphed into something else, entirely its own.
—David Allen Chet Strange, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
Treat yourself to Austin’s homebase string quartet with their guests from the Isadore String Quartet.
Nov. 15: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Hogg Memorial Auditorium.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 3 July 2025
Eakins walked down the aisle as a string quartet and two French horn players performed live.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 22 May 2025
Along the way, the Takacs that once carried forward the great Hungarian tradition of string quartets has morphed into something else, entirely its own.
—David Allen Chet Strange, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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“String quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/string%20quartet. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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