HomeMendelssohn String Quartet featured at ALA Midwinter Curley Lec

Contact: Mark Gould
Director, Public Information Office
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For Immediate Release
December 8, 2004

Mendelssohn String Quartet featured at
ALA Midwinter Curley Lecture

The 6th Annual Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture will sound an entirely different note at the ALA Boston Midwinter Meeting with a performance by the Mendelssohn String Quartet. The Quartet will perform on Saturday, January 15, 2005, 3p.m. in the Hynes Convention Center, Room 302-304.

The performance marks the first time music has been featured in the lecture series, which aims to examine different aspects of the broad intellectual, cultural, artistic and political life in which librarians play a crucial role.

The Mendelssohn String Quartet tours annually throughout North America with regular trips to foreign destinations and continues as Artist Faculty at North Carolina School of the Arts.

The Quartet is comprised of Miriam Fried, violin; Nicholas Mann, violin; Daniel Panner, viola; and Marcy Rosen, cello. They will present Janáček’s Quartet No. 1 (“Kreutzer Sonata”) and Brahms’ Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2.

The Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture series is delivered each year at the ALA Midwinter Meeting and honors ALA past president Arthur Curley. Curley served as president of ALA in 1994 – 1995 and was director of the Boston Public Library. He was a champion of the arts and of the library’s role in providing for them.

The Boston lecture is presented under the auspices of the ALA Public Awareness Committee with generous support from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, contributions from ALA members, the ALA Public Information Office and The Campaign for America's Libraries.

For information on how to contribute to the Arthur Curley Memorial Fund, please contact the ALA Development Office at 800-545-2433, ext. 5050, or e-mail development@ala.org.

Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture Subcommittee members include June A. Pinnell-Stephens, Chair, John W. Berry, Marianne D. Burke, Michele V. Cloonan, Lawrence J. Corbus, Robert Franklin, E. J. Josey, Madeline F. Miele, Ronald Murphy, Elliott Shore, Ann K. Symons, Betty J. Turock, and Kenneth A. Yamashita.