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...years now, the Kronos Quartet (David Harrington and John Sherba, violins: Hank Dutt, viola; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello) has been exclusively playing string quartet music of the 20th century, to every increasing public acclaim. The group now gives upwards of 100 concerts per year and has 12 recordings to its credit, all made since...
...Sing: J. Edgar Hoover" and Johnson's "How it Happens" began and ended the program. Both represent modern extensions of a procedure poineered by Steve Reich in the '60s in pieces such as "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out" and continued in his "Different Trains," recorded by the quartet in 1989. In these pieces taped speech is subjected to repeated looping (or "phasing," to use Reich's term) and then musically claborated. Daugherty, in the anti-establishment political tradition of Reich's earlier work, samples excerpts from Hoover's speeches and parodies them through his musical setting the violins...
...strings, though overly soft in the allegro, carried through their crescendos and decrescendos with professional ease. Chang and LaFitte offered particularly strong performances, but Soule seemed to fade in and out of the solo quartet and Gianguilo made some rather audible mistakes, failing in four different spots to sustain the end of his solo the full length of the note. The final movement suffered from the meek entry of the strings and an overquick temp. But the allegro assai redeemed the piece, with oboe, flute, and violin soloists maintaining a whispering rapport...
...party she meets Natacha (Florence Darrell), who invites her to spend the weekend at her house, so her father lgor (Hugues Quester) can meet Jeanne. Natacha's father is involved with Eve (Eloise Bennett), a girl his daughter's age whom Natacha despises. Rohmer trails this quartet of actors for a week and the audience observes them eating, and fighting, telling stories, discussing philosophy, and gradually getting involved in each other's lives...
...Executive Office Building, aides have re-created the War Room. Around a giant table with a dozen or so phones and six television sets (as well as around the West Wing), the four spend time with top Administration aides, helping plot strategy. As one of the quartet explains it, "Room 160 is an organizing force...