Word: dalley
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...century Italian violinmaker). Despite its distinguished sponsorship, the quartet's success is the result of its own special musical resources. First Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, 32, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), darkly handsome bachelor, is a Los Angeles-born virtuoso and 1958 Leventritt Competition winner. Second Violinist John Dalley, 33, and Violist Michael Tree, 46, are both talented sons of well-known violin teachers. Cellist David Soyer, 43, the quartet's unofficial spokesman, is also its most musically seasoned member; his experience ranges from dance bands to Toscanini's NBC Symphony to solo recitals...
...like pitfalls of quartet life, the players follow many of Sasha Schneider's helpful guidelines. They rarely socialize together during off hours; on tour, they try to avoid the same train or plane, and often stay in different hotels. They also divvy up business responsibilities: Steinhardt handles travel, Dalley is in charge of money, Soyer manages overseas tours, and Tree is the program chairman. "We're just like a corporation," says Steinhardt. "We work together, but must we play together?" When they try, it can cause trouble. Last year Steinhardt broke his own self-imposed rule by challenging...
...more surprised by its rapid rise than the quartet itself. Quartet members often make ends meet by teaching, solo appearances and freelancing. "We were prepared for a long, hard struggle," says Dalley. In fact, the Guarneri's financial worries have been so remarkably short-lived that they are reducing their outside teaching commitments. This year, the quartet will give about 100 concerts (at $1,200 each), compared with a mere dozen in 1965. Its recording work is also increasing, in anticipation of next year's Beethoven bicentennial; the Guarneri will by then have recorded...
Violist Michael Tree offered a suggestion. "Maybe," he told the old man, "you could come in a little slower, maybe more quietly." Violinist John Dalley agreed with a nod. "Fine," said the old man, "let's try it." And Artur Rubinstein, a month short of his 81st birthday, led three members of the Guarneri Quartet, whose average age was 36, back to the microphones for another try at Brahms's Piano Quartet in G Minor...
There may be a tight squeeze in Sanders Theatre on Monday, when the Guarneri String Quartet makes its final appearance at Harvard this summer. Certainly nearly everyone who was at this week's performance will be back to hear Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, Michael Tree, and David Soyer play more music from the-string quartet repertoire. Monday's concert--Schumann's Quartet in F Major, Op. 41, No. 2, Bartok's Quartet No. 5, and and Beethoven's Quartet in F Major, Op. 135, was a display of vitality, balance, and sensitivity...