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With its seemingly traditional lineup brewing a modern fusion of rock, jazz, classical and world sounds, string quartet ETHEL knows no boundaries when it comes to finding inspiration.
Each member has worked and toured with all sorts of musicians, from Ornette Coleman to Sheryl Crow to Gorillaz. Then to celebrate ten years of playing together, they enlisted a Hawaiian slack-key guitarist, a Taos Pueblo flutist, a conjunto accordionist and more into the touring jam sessions they called TruckStop.
So expect the old and the new to collide in many ways when ETHEL performs at The Kennedy Center, in part of its CrossCurrents: Contemporary Music Week. There, the quartet’s favorite musical elements will also converge under the direction of Phil Kline, who also helped create their self-titled album.
As equally as diverse of a composer, Kline has created everything “from vast boombox symphonies to chamber music and song cycles.” Tomorrow night though, he will lead the quartet through “SPACE,” a site-specific work that he had already customized in March, for New York’s Alice Tully Hall.
6 p.m. Millenium Stage, 202-467-4600, www.kennedy-center.org, free.
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