Sympathy for the Stones From a String Quartet.

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The string quartet Ethel, during a concert on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater, performed with a Hawaiian slack-key guitarist, an American Indian flutist, a Tejano accordion player and a Kentucky banjo player in a work that blended instrumental fragments of hits by Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles with famous lines from movies. At one point some raucous avant-garde fiddling and a bluegrass interlude preceded the ''singing in the dead of night'' snippet of the Beatles' ''Blackbird'' and one musician saying, ''Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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