Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debussy: Quartet in G Minor (Paganini String Quartet, Victor, 7 sides). The two inner movements of Debussy's only work in this form are as beautifully made as anything Debussy ever wrote. The Paganini plays it well. Recording (on Viny-lite): fair...
Last week Violinist Griller had some news that he did not tell the audience in Wheeler Hall: for the next three years, chamber music students at the University of California could watch and learn from the Griller String Quartet at work. The Griller would be the university's first "quartet in residence...
...Famed Cellist Maas, leader of the Paganini Quartet, had died a dozen or so miles away, at Oakland's Mills College, at the end of a concert...
They toured Europe, playing nearly 1,000 concerts. When war came they joined the R.A.F. together, and were made the official R.A.F. Quartet. Besides playing in shelters, at airdromes and in factories, they played a command performance at Buckingham Palace, and at the Potsdam conference. U.S. critics, who first heard them on a 60-concert tour of the U.S. in 1939, generally rate them among the top four or five quartets playing in this country. No other major quartet has stayed together so long...
...rather ornate house rented from Gary Grant, to which very few male visitors are admitted, and on which he seems to have made no marks of his own occupancy. He has no chauffeur, no cook, no valet-in fact, no servants in the ordinary sense but a quartet of aides-de-camp. They include Charlie Guest, his old golf pro, and another man named Barry, who might be described as lieutenants in charge of odds & ends, including admissions and evictions; Johnny Meyer, the man with the telephone numbers ; and Dick Davis, a Carl Byoir associate (high-voltage publicity...