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...Matthew Raimondi last week. That remark out of the way, Raimondi and the other members of the Composers String Quartet went out onto a stage at Columbia University and performed the three best and most difficult string quartets written since the time of Bela Bartok. They are by Composer Elliott Carter, and the trio of works have a collective age of 44 years. Yet no group had ever played all or even two of them at one sitting; scheduling even one is a calculated risk. The recital was a sellout. So was the second, held two days later to meet...
Consumers were hardly mollified by the tax rebate. Said Jean Patton, a management consultant for Polaroid Corp.: "It seems the President is just taking out of one pocket and putting it in the other." Judy Elliott, a restaurant owner in Hartford, agreed: "There are 10,000 people around here who have had their heat cut off because they can't pay. What good is a tax cut when they can't heat their homes...
...Yankees, the counsel offered by Pitcher George ("Doc") Medich is probably even more worthwhile. Medich, a 19-game winner last season, doubles as a third-year medical student at Pitt. "A lot of guys ask me for advice," says Medich. "Last year Elliott Maddox had a bulge in his abdomen. I told him it might be a hernia or a ruptured pyramidalis" (a small rudimentary muscle). Medich's diagnosis was correct; Maddox had a hernia...
...ELLIOTT CARTER: STRING QUARTETS NOS. 2 AND 3 (Columbia). Individual instruments may go their own melodic way in Carter's complex auditory scenarios, but the Juilliard Quartet plays with single conviction...
During one period of $15-a-night performances at Manhattan's Café Au Go Go, she met David Geffen and Elliott Roberts, two show biz agents, who with unemployed Guitarist David Crosby later became her record-company president, personal manager and music tutor. "She was a jumble of creative clutter with a guitar case full of napkins, road maps and scraps of paper all covered with lyrics," recalls Roberts. Friendships with performers quickly multiplied. Soon Judy Collins, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Boston Singer-Guitarist Tom Rush were recording songs written by Joni. With Crosby she worked...