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6:00 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2018
BENNETT GORDON HALL
PACIFICA QUARTET
SIMIN GANATRA,
violin
AUSTIN HARTMAN,
violin
GUY BEN-ZIONY,
viola
BRANDON VAMOS,
cello
HAYDN
String Quartet No.
Allegro con spirito
Adagio sostenuto
Menuetto: Allegro
Finale: Allegro ma non troppo
BARTÓK
String Quartet No.
Allegro
Prestissimo, con sordino
Non troppo lento
Allegretto pizzicato
Allegro molto
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MENDELSSOHN
String Quartet No.
Molto allegro vivace
Menuetto: Un poco allegretto
Andante espressivo ma con moto
Presto con brio
THE BEACH BOYS
Most artists measure their success by hit songs
or albums sold, but few can also claim to have
made a lasting impact on the music industry;
e Beach Boys are one such group.
rough-
out the
s the group ruled the airwaves and
came to de ne a style of rock with a parade of
hits beginning with
’s “Sur n’,” co-written by
frontman Mike Love and co-founder Brian Wil-
son. e Beach Boys scored multiple top- hits
every year for half a decade: in
there was
“Sur n’ USA” and “Surfer Girl”;
, “Fun, Fun,
Fun” and number-one “I Get Around”;
,
number-one “Help Me, Rhonda” and “Barbara
Ann”;
, “Sloop John B” and the history-de-
ning “Good Vibrations.” In addition to creat-
ing that enduringly popular song, the group
altered the fabric of the recording industry with
’s
Pet Sounds
, which would later be named
number two on
Rolling Stone
’s list of the
greatest albums of all time. With the release of
Endless Summer
in
, e Beach Boys began
to enthrall a second generation of fans, and in
“Kokomo” became the group’s biggest hit
and rst chart-topper since “Good Vibrations,”
today its best-selling single.
at same year,
the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, and in
e Beach Boys were
accorded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award. In
, the living original members of
the group reunited for a th anniversary tour,
also recording their rst studio album of orig-
inal material in over a decade,
at’s Why God
Made the Radio
.
e album entered
Billboard
’s
charts at number three, making it
e Beach
Boys’ rst top- record since
.
e Beach
Boys rst appeared at Ravinia in
and to-
night return for their th season at the festival.
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