<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Clute, Ryonn</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cluteryo@msu.edu">cluteryo@msu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 4:22 PM<br>Subject: Violinist Ray Chen at Wharton Center March 16<br>To: <a href="mailto:jedfritz77@gmail.com">jedfritz77@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:jedfritz77@gmail.com">jedfritz77@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Hello!</span><span> Reaching
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">out to make sure you, MASTA, and students know that one of the most famous violinists performing today,
<b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ray Chen</b> will be making his Wharton Center debut coming up on Saturday, March 16. <b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Specially priced $19 student and youth tickets are available
</b>(reg. $65-$25). Superstar violinist Ray Chen has it all: charisma for days, a deep musical sense, and incredible virtuosity. His performance with pianist Julio Elizalde puts his talents on full display with a program including the grandest in the violin
repertory, Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 (“Eroica”), Bach’s cheerful, high-spirited Partita No. 3 for solo violin, Giuseppe Tartini’s fiendishly demanding
<em style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Devil’s Trill</span></em> Sonata, Dvořák’s romantic Slavonic Dance No. 2, a special arrangement of Chick Corea’s
<em style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Spain</span></em>, and more. <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">
Please feel free to send this information on to those you think would be interested in this special event.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Violinist Ray Chen<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Julio Elizalde, piano<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sat, March 16, 7:30 pm<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Cobb Great Hall, MSU’s Wharton Center<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Ray Chen is a paradox: the epitome of cool, yet a man with a zany, anarchic and public sense of humour combined in a world-class violin virtuoso with a technique of fire and
ice.” -<i style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sydney Morning Herald<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Colors dance, moods swing, and Chen’s artistry blazes.” —<em style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Times</span></em>, London<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Chen’s full-bodied lyricism…made for beautifully contoured phrases in the violin’s highest, riskiest registers.” —<em style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The New York Times</span></em><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Ray Chen can do pretty much anything he wants on the violin.”—<em style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Washington Post</span></em><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">"Charismatic and expressive, he took up the work like a Romantic hero...his force evident in the many bow hairs he broke during the performance."
<i style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">– The New York Times</i><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Specially Priced Individual Student and Youth Tickets:<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></b></p>
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<li class="m_3193764932815003080xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">$19 MSU Student tickets:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Visit the
<a href="https://www.whartoncenter.com/events/detail/ray-chen" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="m_3193764932815003080normaltextrun" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ray Chen event page</span></a> on the Wharton website, select “Students” on the lower right-hand side of the page, and enter your Student ID to redeem.
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Non-MSU College Student Tickets from $19:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call the Wharton Center Ticket Office at 1.800.WHARTON or visit in person<b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Youth Tickets (through grade 12) from $19:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Visit
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">the
<a href="https://www.whartoncenter.com/events/detail/ray-chen" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span class="m_3193764932815003080normaltextrun" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ray Chen event page</span></a>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">and select “Youth Tickets” in the drop-down box when selecting seats. <u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></li></ul>
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