Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chamber Music...
SHOSTAKOVICH PIANO QUINTET (L'Oiseau-Lyre). There is not much modern Russian chamber music to be heard, but probably its finest example and a credit to any age is this quintet, written in 1940 shortly after the Sixth Symphony and like it a resolution of the torment expressed in the Fifth. Its many lightly inflected moods flow peacefully together with classical clarity, interrupted in the middle by a short, funny honky-tonk of a Scherzo. The Melos Ensemble of London plays it with quiet understanding; it presents as well a sparkling, icy Prokofiev Quintet dated Paris...
...STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS 96 (London). Chamber music has a reputation for being cerebral, but Dvořák makes it heady. His "American" quartet, written in 1893 on a summer visit to Spillville, Iowa, is filled with song and catchy rhythm. The excellent Janacek Quartet plays it brightly, as well as the earlier, more conventional Quartet in D Minor dedicated to Brahms...
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...Place Like Home. Tourism is still third, after sugar and manufacturing, among industries in the U.S. island commonwealth. But what a business. In the past four years, income from tourism has practically doubled, from $53 million to $96 million. And this year the Chamber of Commerce happily contemplates a take of well over $100 million from 550,000 visitors. Last week, at the height of the winter season, more than 80% of San Juan's total 4,000 rooms were occupied, including the suburban motels and unpretentious rooming houses. Space was so tight in the top spots that prospective...