Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tirolese maple to make 300 fiddles-which, at the rate of four new violins a year, will take a long time. He is convinced-that the wood is what counts. Harvard once made electrical tone tests of imitation Strads and Amatis that Moennig had built for the Curtis Quartet-and reported them slightly better than the originals...
Fritz grew up to be musical director of the Dresden State Opera; Adolf founded the famed Busch Quartet. They all left Germany when Hitler's first anti-Jewish law went into effect and have never been back-though of all the family only son-in-law Rudolf Serkin is Jewish. Two unmusical Busches are still in Germany. Says Mrs. Adolf: "We don't even know if they are living, and don't want...
Mozart: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet with Milton Katims, viola; Columbia, 8 sides). One of Mozart's most beguiling scores played in the grand manner by men who know their Mozart. Performance: excellent...
Another surprising feature of this last quartet is that it contains no slow movements. Perhaps, however, the Budapest's slow playing of the allegretto second movement was justified, and provided a greater variety than if it has been played as originally indicated...
...unfortunate that such a chamber music group as the Budapest Quartet, in its only Boston appearance of the season, should, when restricted to three quartets, play those of Brahms and Mendelssohn as showpieces, rather than the far superior works of Haydn and Beethoven. Even with such a deficient program, however, the beauty of the group's tone and their remarkably close collaboration makes this concert one of the greatest pleasures of any musical season...