Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashily upholstered saloon called Dixon's, a new outfit was packing in the big names of the nation's popular-music industry. It was called the Joe Mooney Quartet, and consisted of a clarinet, guitar, bass and (of all things) an accordion...
Good string quartets are about as rare in the U.S. as quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
Like most string quartets, the Paganini has a liberal patron. She is Mrs. William Andrews Clark, widow of the copper-millionaire Senator from Montana. First she engaged Scottish-born Violinist Henri Temianka and Belgian Cellist Robert Maas, then she sent to Brussels for Violist Robert Courte and Violinist Gustave Rosseels. She bought the four Stradivarii, which are insured for $250,000, from a New York dealer. Patroness Clark's quartet has already signed for a Beethoven series at the Library of Congress, and for the opening November concert in Manhattan...
Beethoven: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet with Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 8 sides). A Mozartean caprice by a young (31) and untroubled Beethoven. Performance: good...
...polo match since the war, probably due to recent diplomatic differences between Washington and Buenos Aires, was something less than that. At Long Island's International Field last week, 21,000 fans crowded the weather-beaten stands to watch a good U.S. team trounce a fair Mexican quartet for the second time in a three-match series...