Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic objections were esthetic, though few people exactly articulated this, or could have if they tried. A certain esthetic pleasure used to come from the sight of the Grand Central complex-from the north, a stubby tower with a clock at its architectural nave; from the south, a Beaux Arts Eclectic facade crowned by monumental sculpture that nobody studied but everybody remembered. From either side, it was an ornamental point in the city's stark grid, a recognizable feature amidst its towering but all-too-featureless walls. But five years ago, the 59-story Pan Am Building was built...
Thus it was an audacious step three years ago when the members of the New York-based Beaux-Arts String Quartet dropped all their outside assignments for four solid months of practicing. Until then, they had hovered uneasily between breaking through and breaking up. Now they were determined to establish themselves by winning the newly established Walter W. Naumburg Foundation chamber-music prize...
...other groups, they did it. Then, instead of socking away the $20,000 prize money, they used part of it to commission a new work by U.S. Composer Leon Kirchner. His effort, a tense, tightly outlined piece enhanced by electronic sounds, won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Last fall the Beaux-Arts added stability to its growing reputation by moving into professorial chairs as quartet-in-residence at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Today, it stands in the select ranks of secure year-round ensembles that have proved that chamber music...
...Stony Brook campus on Long Island last week the quartet played works by Beethoven, Ives and Karl Korte, and played them with an ease and elegance rare among American chamber- music makers. Where most native groups feature a sharp-edged attack that glitters most brightly m contemporary music, the Beaux-Arts glides throughout the reper tory with a silken, unruffled sheen and a cozy, old-world tonal blend...
Musical Democracy. The Beaux-Arts' finesse is achieved not by dissolving individuality into the unit, but by insisting on each member's rights in a musical democracy. First Violinist Charles Libove 38, a tiny (5-ft. 3-in.) dervish of energy and enthusiasm, has the widest background as a soloist, acts as spokesman and arbitrator of musical disagreements Violinist Bernard Eichen, 36, the newest member of the group with only one year's tenure, is a nonstop quipster who gave his first recital at age nine and joined Toscanini's NBC Symphony at 19. Violist John...