Word: quartets
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Lehrer began his long pursuit of a Ph.D. in 1946. In 1951, "fate intervened," Lehrer says mock-portentously, when he and three other grad students entered a quartet contest on Arbor Day at the Law School. They were, it turns out, the only entry, so the sponsors withdrew the prize, but the group evoked such a favorable response that they decided to keep singing. At least Lehrer did. "The other guys went on to bigger and better and more respectable things--one's now at the Carnegie Foundation and the other two are professors at Tulane and Case Western. They...
Four--Carrillo, Landry, Greeley, and Field--of the five freshmen have similar backgrounds. This quartet started playing soccer in the sixth grade in competitive Massachusetts town leagues and continued to compete for as many as nine months of the year in high school, often in three different leagues. Carrillo and Greeley (who played together for two years at Wellesley High) and Field earned Boston Globe All-Scholastic honors during their high school careers...
James Williams Quartet--Ryles Upstairs...
Mike Metheny Quartet--Ryles Downstairs...
...first Peabody-Mason concert (last Sunday afternoon) presented the Emerson string quartet--an award-winning group that in five years has become one of the world's leading string quartets--playing a program of Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky, and Debussy. Later concerts in this six-part series will feature performances by the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, pianists Michael Borskin, Noel Lee, and Andrew Rangell, and the tenor Rolf Bjorling...