Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense, the Crimson lost nine starters, including its supurb backfield quartet of Lee Oldenburg, Frank Ciota and All-Ivy selections Cecil Cox and Ken Tarczy. Before the season, Harvard Coach Joe Restic labeled the quartet "an outstanding group, probably the best kids as a group that we've had since I've been here...
...KRONOS QUARTET (Nonesuch). The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet (Violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, Violist Hank Dutt and Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud) looks like a new-wave band and plays like an iconoclast's image-busting dream come to fiddling life. This disk offers the Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...
...movements. It predates Nancarrow's dense, mind-boggling, rhythmic experiments in his Mexico City studio with the player piano, which later became his chosen medium of expression. Emotionally stirring, the piece deserves wider currency. And the swooping, sliding, fuzz-toned Purple Haze must be as close as a string quartet is likely to come to playing acid rock at the Fillmore. Jimi was never like this. Can Janis be far behind...
...that marked the avant-garde's uptown coming-out party at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1976, and earlier this year Glass released the album Songs from Liquid Days, which featured lyrics by Byrne, Anderson, Paul Simon and Suzanne Vega, with performances by Linda Ronstadt and the Kronos String Quartet...
...obscurity, density and a resolute unwillingness to compromise. As one of the leading (and one of the last) exponents of academic serialism, a postwar compositional style marked by rigid mathematical organization of pitch and rhythm, Carter tends to be honored more in words than with performances. But his String Quartet No. 2 and No. 3 won Pulitzer Prizes in 1960 and 1973, and a hard core of enthusiasts rapturously greets each new work. The Second Quartet treated each instrument as an individual; the Third paired them. In the Fourth Quartet, Carter finally has reunited two violins, viola and cello...