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...Cornell and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and an author and composer. He studied under Professor J. K. Paine and Arthur Foote and at one time lectured by special invitation at the University of Oxford, England. In his address he will give suggestive comments and discussion on the structure and context of the work; and the whole composition will then be performed by the Olive Mead Quartet. The work is typical of Brahms, who is pre-eminent in expressing the modern romantic spirit in the classical musical forms. It was composed in 1869 and is the second of Brahms' three great...
...lecture to be given tomorrow evening in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum by Mr. Thomas Whitney Surette of New York. The lecture is to be upon Brahms' Quartet in A minor, op. 51, No. 2, and Mr. Surette will make suggestive comments on the structure and context of this great work. The whole composition will then be performed by the Olive Mead Quartet of New York. In this way a rare opportunity is afforded to hear a standard work in connection with stimulating discussion. Since Mr. Surette is bringing on the quartet from New York entirely...