Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elliott Carter, one of the few American composers to reach eminence since the war, has done just that. While any musicologist can find traces of, say, Bartok or Stravinsky somewhere in his music, both are completely integrated into a distinct personal style. A performance of his new Second String Quartet, which won the Pulitzer music prize in 1960, reconfirms this opinion...
...concert opened with the delayed World Premiere of Junior Fellow David Lewin's Essay on a Subject of Webern for chamber orchestra. The work is derived from the second of Webern's Op. 28 string quartet; but its material is wholly original--the melodic declaration often seems closer to the manner of Arnold Schoenberg. Mr. Lewin has employed considerable economy in composition, and the piece is concise, clear and very pleasing; the wind writing, in particular, shows considerable delicacy and precision. Mr. Senturia and his orchestra brought to the work the same assurance and competence that marked the entire program...
...skill, Goron pieces together the scanty clues, finds Gouffe's body and arrests his undoubted murderers-a sullen lout named Eyraudt, who had fled to, of all places, Chicopee, Mass., and a young prostitute named Gabrielle Bompard, who makes even the smoldering Justine of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet appear fairly innocuous by comparison...
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. The Julliard String Quartet: Robert Mann and Isidore Cohen, violins; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Claus Adam, cello. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Free tickets may be obtained by writing the Mason Music Foundation, 59 Fayweather Street, and enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
MORE QUINTETS by the Boston Fine Arts Quartet. Mozart's string quintets in B (K. 174), in E (K. 614), and in C (K. 515). Sanders Theatre...