Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scarred musician will attest, one of the quickest ways to lose friends is to engage in the precarious art of chamber music. With everyone trying to be boss, squabbles over interpretation can become downright nasty. And with the members of the de Pasquale String Quartet - Joseph, 45, viola; Francis, 44, cello; Robert, 37, and William, 32, violins - it's even more so. They fight constantly. The difference is, they revel in it. But then they are brothers, and this, they explain, is the secret to successful shouting contests...
...Bold Relief. Last week the de Pasquale String Quartet made its Manhattan debut in Town Hall and all was sweet accord. Billed as the FIRST ALL-BROTHER QUARTET IN MUSICAL HISTORY, they were a trifle jittery in the opening Hayden Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, but soon found their stride. Turning to the contemporary, their readings of Quincy Porter's Quartet No. 3 and Vin cent Persichetti's Quartet No. 2 crackled with clean precision. In Dvorák's Quar tet in F Major, Op. 96, their tempos, if sometimes inflexible, were brisk and lively...
Friday afternoon in Philadelphia, hampered by a cold, blustery wind, the Crimson distance medley quartet of Troy Burns, Jeff Huvelle, Bob Stempson, and Jim Baker, finished sixth in a strong field that included Georgetown and Villanova. Burns however, whipped through his half-mile leg in 1:52, while Baker ran the anchor mile in a quick...
...class and who doesn't, but who at a given moment is in or out of a particular clique-and the rule of in-and-out can be more tyrannical than any old-line social arbiter. Parties can mean anything from a small conversational dinner with a string quartet in the next room to taking over a discotheque or having a couple of short-order cooks come in at midnight to make omelettes for 50. The grand, slumbering old men's clubs have lost much of their importance or have taken on alarming new guises: New York City...
Best chamber music performance-the Juilliard String Quartet playing Bartok's Six String Quartets (Columbia...