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Last weekend was an excellent one for Harvard, musically speaking. Among the least-advertised but most pleasurable events was a free concert in the Dunster Library on April 8, given by the Van Swieten Quartet, who are in residence at the Longy School. They played rarely-heard early Beethoven (the Op. 18 String Quartet in C minor) with a musicality that was undercut somewhat by the lack of humidity, a condition to which the group's rare, expensive instruments are sensitive. Still, they kept some monstrous repeats from being boring, choosing unpredictable phrasings and doing an unforgettable job of blending...
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