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...Saints' Chapel last week, a capacity crowd of 600 heard the second concert in the festival's survey. The audience was lulled into false security with some Haydn and Mozart quartets, then given the business: Walter Piston's new (1949) piano quintet, with Harris' wife Johana ("Lady Jo") at the piano. Written in modern idiom, with awkward, angular intervals, grating harmonies and jolting semi-jazz rhythms, it left its listeners bewildered and politely awed. When it was over, the audience stood up (applause in the chapel was ruled out) to show its reverent appreciation...
...Harris: Quintet for Piano and Strings (Johana Harris and the Coolidge String Quartet; Victor; 7 sides; $4). One of the most eloquent of contemporary chamber works (1939) gets a fine performance from the composer's wife and the Coolidges...