Word: programe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest String Quartet played three entirely different types of quartets in Sanders Theater yesterday afternoon, and when the program was over, it played Schubert's Quartet Movement in C minor as an encore. This concert was the nearest thing to musical perfection I have ever heard...
...program were quartets by Mozart, Hindemith, and Brahms. The first piece required a light and smooth approach to show off its classical symmetry; the second had to have an almost completely opposite interpretation for its rhythmically and tonally restive nature; the Brahms quartet, being late romantic, required thick texture for its heavy Germanic style; and for Schubert the players had to revert to a light and delicate style to express the tunefulness of the composer...
Most chamber groups never try such a varied program, or if they do, they play everything in one style. The Budapest String Quartet showed its true greatness by playing each of these pieces exactly as it should be played...
Sixty-three stores are taking part in the program this year, Kline said...
...return of technically trained veterans who knew enough not to make the usual mistakes of a fledgling group. And he warns that, with the passing of the veterans, Harvard drama will lapse into its pre-war state of hapless amateurism unless steps are taken to set up a program within the College itself...