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“ABBA is part of the disco movement You’ve got to make sure there’s a driving force, a beat. “Part of the difficulty of putting these shows together is…the songs are not written for string quartet,” Schweitzer explains. As with the other artist tributes he’s curated, he searched worldwide for arrangements, though he did commission one specifically for “I Still Have Faith in You,” the Grammy Award-nominated song (ABBA’s first ever) from the new album. Schweitzer, a trained pianist and composer himself, decided on an ABBA show last year, when “Voyage,” the Swedish quartet’s first new album in 40 years, was announced. But tributes to popular artists…We’ve just sold more and more and more (tickets) to those shows, so it’s following…what sells, what people really want.”

“If it’s a show of Mozart, they might not necessarily go. “It’s a way to bring people to see something like a string quartet,” explains Fever’s New York-based Candlelight Curator Ricky Schweitzer.

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The popular Candlelight string quartet series is taking a chance on some new shows this weekend, including a pair at Detroit’s Masonic Temple.įever, which presents shows in more than 80 cities worldwide, rolls out tributes to ABBA and Stevie Wonder, adapting their hits into chamber arrangements that will put a new kind of spin on some very familiar material.

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