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Real Vocal String Quartet performs in synagogue
Published: Saturday, October 22, 2011
CHESTER - The highly acclaimed San Francisco group, the Real Vocal String Quartet, will perform a free concert on Sunday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m., at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Chester.
The performance – as well as the free 3 p.m. workshop that day for “children of all ages” – is a gift to the community at large for its support over the years, and in celebration of the 10th year since the congregation moved to its new home, the building designed by architect Stephen L. Lloyd and the late internationally renowned artist Sol LeWitt.
The RVSQ plays a wide variety of celebratory music. The Christian Science Monitor says, “This spritely marriage of string quartet precision and elegance with lyrically sophisticated pop vocals makes their bridging of the chasm between pop and classical music freshly enchanting.”
Howard Fishman, the composer and performer who is also the artistic director of the congregation’s Music & More series, adds, “The first time I heard the Real Vocal String Quartet, they knocked me out. The group (four women), were performing in a cramped walk-up venue in the East Village), just one stop on their very first East Coast tour. The music that came out of them that night—the enthusiasm, the energy, the inventiveness, the humor and camaraderie—was breathtaking. I had that feeling, too rare, I get at times like these: everyone I know (and everyone I don’t know) needs to hear this.”
The concert also gives the congregation – as a prelude to the music – a chance to thank the many members of the community who worked so hard to make the new building possible.
Congregation Beth Shalom is located at 55 East Kings Highway in Chester. For more information, visit cbsrz.org or call the office 860-526-8920. 10/22/11 >> go there
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