Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presenting a series of Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts, Club Mount Auburn 47 aims for quality somewhere between the Paganini String Quartet and a student recital. The Mount Auburn Quartet's program of yesterday afternoon fell exactly where it should, in the middle: not really professional, but quite good enough...
...more enjoyable was the Beethoven C minor quartet, Op. 18. Although among Beethoven's first batch of string quartets, this quartet shows the vigor, delightful humor, and insistence on making the instruments serve the music that characterizes Beethoven's later quartet writing. The liveliness of the work seemed to wake up the performers; they started with good, solid attacks and supplied plenty of dynamic ups and downs. Cellist Lawrence Hamilton's full tone and adequate technique supplied a foundation to the ensemble, and second violinist Gretchen Anner played her solo in the trio of the third movement accurately, if without...
...tricks; the tricks are no longer new, but the cultists won't be satisfied unless they have told you about every sort of shot that Welles used for the first time. I am only slightly more annoyed when opera fans talk about Mozart's daring use of the quartet in Idomeneo; he may have shocked Vienna in 1780, but now we ought to be far more interested in the quality of the quartet as music, not music history...
...matter of fact, the quartet is fairly insipid, but Citizen Kane remains an exciting film. Welles invented and perfected his style all at once, and it is this instant mastery that brands him a genius far more than his originality...
...versatile Crimson swimmer also won the backstroke and swam in the winning 400-yard medley relay quartet with Bill Chadsey, Jim Coffman, and Bob Kaufmann. In the individual medley. Pringle won by a body length over Jerome Bentley, the Indians' highly regarded double threat...