Tashi Quartet
The Tashi Quartet ( originally known as TASHI ) is an ensemble of violinist Ida Kavafian , pianist Peter Serkin , cellist Fred Sherry and , later , clarinetist Richard Stoltzman , founded in 1973 for the purpose of playing the Quartet for the End of Time by Olivier Messiaen , as well as commissioning new works . 
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