The Endlessly Shape-Shifting Emerson String Quartet
By Justin Davidson, eMusic Contributor
The Emerson Quartet has spent decades as a nimble monument. For nearly 30 years, these four friends — violinists Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist David Finckel — have fused their musical identities into the world's longest-lived and, really, only A-list string quartet. Now, the quartet is losing Finckel, the hardest-working man in the classical music business, who has decided to focus on four or five other full-time jobs. And for… more »