Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night's performance, Conductor Emil Cooper must think the opposite. The music is full of the sea--powerful and unsympathetic. It is a fine mood setting for the vicious fishing village, and Grimes' proscription by the other inhabitants is well portrayed. There are several numbers which stand out: the quartet the end of the first scene of act two, Grimes' song, "In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home," and Ellen's "Embroidery in childhood." There are also some chorus tunes which show Britten's skill at folk music. The most effective writing is in the alternation of Ellen...
...Quartet. Four unrelated short stories by Somerset Maugham; a British-made film of wit and compassion (TIME...
...Mozart: Quartet in C Major, K. 465 (the Griller String Quartet; English Decca, 7 sides). Mozart dedicated this quartet (and five others) to Haydn. After hearing them, Haydn said to Mozart's father: "Before God ... I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me . . ." Performance and recording: good...
...Julliard String Quartet will present the six quartets of Bela Bartok in two concerts at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night at Sanders Theater, in a series sponsored by the Music Department...
Tonight's performance will feature Bartok's Third. Second, and Fifth Quartets. Tomorrow night, the Julliard Quartet will conclude with the Fourth, First, and Sixth of the Bartok Quartets...