Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, rarefied world of chamber music, a big resurrection took place last week. The London String Quartet, rated one of the world's finest from its founding in 1908 to its disbanding in 1934, reassembled to give four concerts in Los Angeles...
...time the London String Quartet toured the western world, played top-notch Beethoven to audiences sophisticated and simple. Eventually the players found that they could not make a living from $750 gross per occasional performance, split four ways...
Founder of the quartet and anchor man during its 26 years was hulking, virile Cellist C. Warwick Evans. He is now with the Pro Arte Quartet, which is attached to the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Jan. 27), has been playing in California this summer. The London quartet's last two violinists, tall John Pennington and deadpan Thomas W. Petre have been playing in cinema studio orchestras. Only dapper William Primrose had far to travel for the reunion-from Manhattan, where he is the NBC Symphony's crack viola player...
Beethoven: Quartet in C Major, Op. 18, No. 2 (Victor; 6 sides; $3.50) and Mozart: Quartet In D Minor (K. 421) (Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). A pair of superbly tooled chamber-music items, both played by the unsurpassed Budapest Quartet...
Ernst Toch: Quintet, Op. 64 (Kaufman Quartet and the composer at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Austrian Atonalist Toch takes time out from writing music for Hollywood pictures to do a quiet, methodical job of concert-hall hair-raising...