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...place where you decide music is the love of your life, you may reach this epiphany at a point in your life when it really is too late for that decision," admits senior Akiko Tarumoto '98, a violinist of 16 years' experience and member of the Ehrkern String Quartet. "People who have most of their technical faculties in place, but still need some fine-tuning...should undoubtedly go to a music school where they can practice for hours and hours and become fantastic musicians. [For] the ones without super-human musical abilities, the decision is that much harder to make...
...there andjust laugh." Park knows the answer to the Harvardquestion, too, as everyone does. When asked "Whyare you here?" by a peer, Park provides a gentlereminder: "For the same reason that you are." Youcan't argue with that.CrimsonSamuel P. Tepperman-GelfantTHE FOUR TOPS: Members of the EhrkernString Quartet rehearse in the Adams House LowerCommon Room; they could be at Julliardinstead...
...Newton Boys were for real--a quartet of bank-robbing brothers out of Texas who pioneered the same territory that Bonnie and Clyde would bucket across to much larger celebrity a decade later. There were, however, important differences between the gangs. For one thing, the Newtons were far more successful, financially speaking, than their successors. More important, they did not come to a premature and legend-inspiring end. They all attained great age and modest respectability; one of them even turned up as a guest of Johnny Carson...
Although their third and final piece, Debussy's Quartet in G minor, Opus 10, lacked focus and feeling in the first movement, the quartet quickly recovered--and by the second movement, Assez vif et bien rythme, played a sound that (like its French direction would suggest) was lively, rhythmic and lyrical. But perhaps more importantly, it was fresh. Despite the practice that first violinist Arnold Steinhardt characterizes as "hours and hours of brute labor," the quartet did on Friday what makes them renowned: they conveyed spontaneity. The result was a sound that through rehearsal did not become tenderized and beaten...
...Guarneri String Quartet has long enchanted its patrons. The Dallas Morning News recently described them as being "really quite perfect." And although the creation of music--of an art based upon interpretation and perception--can arguably never reach a state of perfection, one thing for certain is that last Friday in Jordan Hall, the Guarneri String Quartet came about as close as any string quartet...