Let it not be said that hip new music is light new music. Ethel, a contemporary string quartet variously heralded as “funky,” “downtown” or, worst, “postclassical,” came to the District on Monday night with a new program of three long works about the Balkan conflict, the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the Holocaust: almost two hours of music with no intermission. While the quartet sounded ...
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