Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133 (Adolf Busch and his Chamber Players; Columbia; 4 sides). A puzzler even to musical savants of the 1820s, the granite-surfaced "grand fugue" which Beethoven composed as a finale to his String Quartet B Flat so irritated audiences that his publisher persuaded him to write a simpler finale, issue his pet fugue separately. Now recognized as a titan among fugues, it comes to life eloquently, pulsingly in the first album of Violinist Adolf Busch's reorganized chamber musicians, who made their U.S. debut earlier this year (TIME, March...
Schubert: Quintet in C Major (Budapest String Quartet, with Benar Heifetz, cellist; Columbia; 12 sides). This lyric, dark-hued quintet, composed in the last months of Schubert's life, has the "heavenly length" of his Seventh Symphony. Finely, sensitively played...
...calender for the big Funster weekend will be the "Gat Nineties" crew race against Calhoun College, Yale. Sunday a Stradivarius Quartet will play in the House Common Room...
Coach Don Peddie's golf team took the measure of a strong M. I. T. quartet 4 to 2. The best score of the day was turned in by Walt Wilcox, who shot a startling 74. The third victory of the year was won by the lacrosse team, which downed Lawrence Academy, 9 to 1. High scorer was Fred Geenhalge, who was responsible for nearly half the team's total...
...team is still untried, in spite of that meet, because only in the weights did the men from the Heights offer real competition. In most of the running events, the conquerors of the Vols entered only one or two men, and no mile relay quartet stepped to the starting line...