MODERN STRING QUARTET: The Brooklyn-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider will be playing at Town Hall tonight. Originally forming after playing in Yo Yo Ma's traveling ensemble, The Silk Road Project, "Brooklyn Rider was born out of a desire to use the rich medium of the string quartet as a vehicle for borderless communication." The quartet is said to have a "wildly" eclectic voice along with an incredible ability in taking the 300-year-old form of the string quartet and making it contemporary enough to be vital, relevant, and interesting in the 21st century. Tonight they will feature classics from Debussy, Phillip Glass, Giovanni Sollima, and more. more ›