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Monday, September 11
12:00-12:45 p.m.
Carl B. Taylor Auditorium

Preview: The Zoellner Quartet Project with the Honourable Alexandra Foley, Music performed by Musicians of Ma’alwyck

Preview of tonight's lecture and performance about the Zoellner Quartet. Free and open to the public.

Monday, September 11
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Carl B. Taylor Auditorium

Lecture and Performance: The Zoellner Quartet Project with the Honourable Alexandra Foley, Music performed by Musicians of Ma’alwyck

Tickets: $10 for adults, $8 for students, and $5 for children under 10 available at the door, SUNY Schenectady students are free with ID.

During their illustrious career, the Zoellner Quartet performed for The King and Queen of the Belgians, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, and the Cheyenne Indians.

The Honourable Alexandra Foley is the granddaughter of Joseph Zoellner, Sr. who formed The Zoellner Quartet - America’s most celebrated string quartet in the first half of the 20^th century performing over 3,000 concerts between 1904-1954.

The Musicians of Ma'alwyck is a flexible-size chamber ensemble in residence at the Schuyler Mansion New York State Historic Site and SUNY Schenectady. Founded in 1999 by violinist and director Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, the group specializes in music performed in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Amandus Carl Zoellner (standing left), Joseph Johann Zoellner Junior, Antoinette A. Zoellner and Joseph Zoellner Senior (seated) - circa 1917 In 2020, Foley learned of a substantial archive of Zoellner Quartet material at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and set about ‘resurfacing’ the story. Foley’s then 94-year-old mother was able to fact check and flesh out the characters and offer anecdotes before her passing in 2022. Scheduled for publication September 2023, The Lost Quartet is a book written by Alexandra Foley and edited by Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz that tells the story of this trailblazing musical group that toured throughout the United States in the early 1900s.