Never one to miss a great party, the Dover Quartet took a three-day break from annual duties at the Artosphere Festival – one of their longest-standing supporters – and jetted to London last weekend, where they took part in the Wigmore Hall’s 70th-birthday celebration of their dear friend and collaborator Emanuel Ax. It’s not just any string quartet that a legend like Ax invites to play with him: he first heard the Dover at Tanglewood and was so taken by what he heard that he invited them to perform with him first at Northwestern, now at Wigmore, and in the fall at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall.
