Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student government." But, she hastened to add, "Important and valuable as these expy to have, as we do in the incoming freshman class, a girl who has raised sheep, another who picked berries to earn money for college, several who worked in laboratories, one who organized a string quartet, the winner of the General Mills Homemaking Award, and a girl who studied physics outside of school on her own and passed a Regents Examination with honor...
Freshman football captain Charley Kessler is available for duty on defense also, and ably employs his gridiron skills on the ice. Art Norton rounds out a quartet of defensemen that allowed only 44 goals this season. Again, there was depth and consistency, adroitness and ability...
What a startling about Carter is that, within a consistent style, he has retained an astounding flexibility giving free rein to his originality. With this Quartet he for the first time used the same form twice. When he began it he discarded the emphasis on polyrhythms of his first quartet because he felt he had accomplished all he could within that technique...
Carter approaches each composition as a problem upto itself, with its distinctive problems, medium and form. Conceiving of the quartet as a "series of events," he is concerned with the internal logic and organic development of that piece alone; no larger harmonic or formal systems restrict him. He is, in Isaiah Berlin's category...
...difficult to separate music and performance with such an unfamiliar work. The Lenox String Quartet, which premiered the piece, seemed to handle it with perfect ease and probably mirrored the composer's intentions. The individual character of the instruments was quite clear; the cello contributed an almost booming tone and the first violin mastered well the violent alternations between long and short notes...