Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schubert: Quartet in E Flat Major (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). The freshness and tunefulness of Schubert at 20, without the skill and maturity of Schubert at 30. Performance: excellent...
Lectures by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, and Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor of Economics, on "Diverse Shapes of Men" and "Economic Perspective" are added attractions, while G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will judge a barbershop quartet contest on the second...
Perhaps subsequent meetings will inject ramifications and contradictions to justify your reporter, but he was not able to approach, what was undoubtedly the most powerful and provocative work on the program of the expert Walden String Quartet "untroubled," as Mr. Sessions would have it, "by preconceived notions...
Retrospectively one could be grateful to Walter Piston for the long, flowing lines in his Third Quartet, which opened the program. As a member of the Harvard music faculty, and thus a host with appropriate deference to his guests, he perhaps cast this work in a less massive and less ambitious mold than some of his other works. But here were the familiar urbanity and affability, and the unadventurous continuation of Romantic tradition, strikingly fused with a wholly contemporary, classical economy, and the accompanying sense of fitness and of the exact point of surfeit...
That point is something not quite appreciated by Bohuslav Martinu, whose Sixth String Quartet closed the program, a work also in Romantic tradition. Remarkable musician that he is, Martinu gives us beautiful, Schubertian oscillations, but once again, as in his other works, one craves some positive, extended melodic ideas to superpose on the fine underlying continuity...