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String quartets strummed their way through classical covers of pop hits.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026

The evening began with one of two string quartets by Laura Valborg Aulin, a Swede who died in 1928 and is the sole female classical composer featured at this year’s festival.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Down the 5 Freeway, the OC Rapid Response Network holds regular fundraisers in bars around downtown Santa Ana featuring everything from rockabilly quartets to female DJs spinning cumbias.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

It should be fascinating to hear what they do with the remaining quartets.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2024

In the last two years of his life, now profoundly deaf and mosdy bedridden by severe illness, Beethoven withdrew into a private sound world, composing six string quartets of astonishing, unapproachable intensity.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall