Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pierian Sodality of 1808 will present a concert of twentieth-century chamber music at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 12 on the Loeb main stage. Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will perform Villa-Lobos' Sixth String Quartet, Carter's Sonata for flute, oboe, cello, and harp sichord, Varese's "Density 21.5." A chorus will perform the world premiere of James Yannatos's "A Modern Dialogue...
...second act is peopled by refugees from The Threepenny Opera, both as characters and actors. Peter Johnson and Susan Channing sneer at each other across two inches of mutual nose. Leland Moss stalks and glowers while Vernon Blackman, as the smallest and most industrious of the Cockney quartet, loots the tambourine. Erhardt's direction keeps things moving although the first two acts seem hampered by the shallow sets, forcing all movement into one plane...
Looks like it's three down and one to go for a certain well-known Liverpool quartet...
...first time the CRIMSON called Harrison's home in Surrey, England, the sought-after member of the quartet refused to accept the call...
...gives a withering description of an opera rehearsal and rants against the absurdities he found onstage: "What they were doing was unlike anything on earth except other operas. People do not converse in such a way as recitative, and do not place themselves at fixed distances, in a quartet, waving their arms to express their emotions." In a similar vein, Dr. Johnson called opera "an exotic and irrational entertainment," and it caused Charles Lamb "inexplicable anguish." Says British Conductor John Pritchard: "There is a tremendous backlog of Puritan suspicion of opera...