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...special musical resources. First Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, 32, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), darkly handsome bachelor, is a Los Angeles-born virtuoso and 1958 Leventritt Competition winner. Second Violinist John Dalley, 33, and Violist Michael Tree, 46, are both talented sons of well-known violin teachers. Cellist David Soyer, 43, the quartet's unofficial spokesman, is also its most musically seasoned member; his experience ranges from dance bands to Toscanini's NBC Symphony to solo recitals...
...achieve it. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father, an itinerant photographer and traveling salesman, died when he was twelve, leaving the family destitute. Scott worked after school dressing store windows, went to Manhattan in 1940 to study art with Painters Moses and Rafael Soyer. "I wore sandals and a beard," he says. "Oh, I was one of the early hippies." He switched to designing fabrics, took off for Paris in 1947, and has been an expatriate ever since...
...table in an RCA Victor recording studio in Manhattan and listened to a playback. The cello came on with a rhapsodic, throbbing solo. "Very beautiful," sighed the old man, and tapped Cellist David Soyer approvingly on the knee. Then, a gnarled passage for piano and strings. "No," said the old man, "that's not so good. Here Brahms makes a trap, and we fell in. What shall...
...emphasized those places in which there was a definite sense of increasing tension followed by release. This was particularly evident in the first movement, and less so in the second and third. The overall performance was in every was satisfactory despite a mechanical flaw (a string broke) in David Soyer's cello...
There may be a tight squeeze in Sanders Theatre on Monday, when the Guarneri String Quartet makes its final appearance at Harvard this summer. Certainly nearly everyone who was at this week's performance will be back to hear Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, Michael Tree, and David Soyer play more music from the-string quartet repertoire. Monday's concert--Schumann's Quartet in F Major, Op. 41, No. 2, Bartok's Quartet No. 5, and and Beethoven's Quartet in F Major, Op. 135, was a display of vitality, balance, and sensitivity...