URBANA – Two string quartets of different generations will team up on Thursday evening at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts to present the world premiere of an octet by William Bolcom, a ...

Fortunately the work happens to be a showstopper that never fades, full of vibrant energy, exciting virtuosity and dramatic ­pathos. Written, almost unbelievably, when the composer was only 16, the ...

“Great Octets” is the theme of the Society’s next concert, in which an outstanding assemblage of strings (including the violist Yura Lee and the cellist Dmitri Atapine) performs works by Spohr, ...