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Chamber musicians often speak of the "terrible intensity" of their lives. Top quartets can average 100 concerts a year, some 200 days on the road. Performances are not always the rarefied affairs that one might imagine. When the Juilliard was playing once at Darmstadt, Germany, a contemporary music center, the crowd found the Elliott Carter quartet so passe that they talked and jeered throughout. Robert Mann retaliated by playing with his back to the crowd. When the Concord was playing at Vassar in 1972, the group had to stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings...
...group can be engaged for around $4,500, compared with up to $15,000 a night for a diva or a virtuoso pianist. Another attraction is that the repertoire is seemingly limitless in number (hundreds of string quartets alone) and variety (duos for two, nonets for nine). The Juilliard String Quartet plays 600 works from three centuries. Other groups, like the Theater Chamber Players and the 20th Century Consort, both in Washington, D.C., focus heavily on contemporary works. Says Sergiu Luca, founder of the popular Chamber Music Northwest series in Portland, Ore.: "We are small enough to be easily marketed...
...great artists as well as amateurs, chamber music can call forth the deepest emotions. Not long ago, Artur Rubinstein, who is 91, invited the Juilliard Quartet to rehearse at his Paris town house. After a leisurely lunch, the four went to work in the living room, with the old man listening. They had played only a few bars of Mozart when tears began to stream down Rubinstein's face. "I began to cry too," says Violinist Mann. "We all began to cry. It may not have been the best performance we ever gave, but it was certainly the most emotional...
...staring at nightgowned reflection in mirror. Declined admission into Radcliffe College to study acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in late '40s. First role: an off-stage scream in a summer production at the then-legit Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, Mass. Began teaching drama at the Juilliard School, 1968. Has performed in film, on television, on radio (CBS Mystery Theatre), but mostly on Broadway. Currently stars in Ira Levin's Deathtrap. Has no idea what her next role will be, reinforcing comment in book that she has never consciously planned her career...
...begins with Soprano-Narrator Barbara Hendricks, 29, a Juilliard graduate, reciting the opening lines of the penultimate Alice chapter (the trial of the Knave for stealing the Queen's tarts) and ends with Alice's exit from Wonderland. As the orchestra loudly warms up, the White Rabbit bellows "Silence in the court!" and the instruments' din comically subsides. Then, for about an hour, the score seesaws between the basic narrative and funny, parodic arias that are often sweetly melodic and easy...