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...Milan's 600-seat Piccolo Scala or Munich's 500-seat Cuvillies Theater, and with no money to build one, the plan lay gathering dust until last spring, when Bing's successor, Göran Gentele, took it up. Gentele's plan to use the Juilliard School Opera Theater fell through, but the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, forced by inadequate funding to curtail its season, offered the Forum...
SANDERS THEATER. Juilliard String Quartet. Quartets by Ives, Carter, and Bartok...
...String Quartet No. 3, Carter goes one step further. In the world premiere last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Juilliard Quartet paired off into duos and engaged in a 20-minute adventure in the attraction of opposites. While Duo II (violin and viola) was playing six movements in the strictest of tempos, Duo I (violin and cello) was playing four movements in a very free rubato style. Happily, the two duos not only began but end ed together, proving that being at sixes and fours is not at all like being at sixes and sevens...
...music - save for his early Eight Etudes and a Fantasy - the Quartet is music of mind-numbing difficulty. It is practically impossible to hum or whistle, and almost impossible to play. Experiencing the drama of its dense inner layers and illusory sur faces - superbly captured by the Juilliard - is like viewing late Beethoven through an atonal prism. The power is there. So is the higher mathematics of Carter's intricate organizational scheme. As to deep feeling, and perhaps something of lovability, only time and richer acquaintance will tell...
...patrons who commissioned it may seem like one of the worst things that could happen to a composer. But as Vincent Persichetti has discovered, sometimes it is one of the best things. Persichetti, 57, an established middle-of-the-road composer who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School, wrote a piece for narrator and orchestra to be performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra at the official Inaugural concert in Washington two weeks...