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...describing his composition "Surrendering to the Stream", premiered by the Mendelssohn String Quartet last Friday night at Paine Hall, David Horne referred to it as "a highly programmatic work in which the four members of the quartet were different' characters.'" These different characters emerged through the medium of each work the group performed...
Johannes Brahms' String Quartet in c minor, Opus 51, No. 1, was the final and most substantial piece on the program. Unfortunately, this work sounded the least polished of all that the Quartet performed. In the first movement, "Allegro," where the texture is quite thick, the balance was not effective, the notes of the accompanying voices excessively labored and the melody not sufficiently passionate. Here also the contrasting characters displayed by the different instruments detrimentally affected the Quartet's performance; while in most places these variations added interest, the dryness of the violist's sound in the Brahms grated...
Though the players' differing styles failed to coalesce in the Brahms, for the most part the Quartet managed to present a unique approach synthesized from the disparate strengths of its members. The voices of each instrumentalist, beautiful and intriguing on their own, when conjoined showed the Mendelssohn String Quartet as one of the best...
...nearly 150 years, the grueling America's Cup sailing competition has generally been a men-only event. Now the reigning champion, American Bill Koch, has turned over his string of yachts, his coaching and design expertise, and several million dollars to an all-female team. Koch's syndicate has already signed up nine women for his 1995 crew, including five U.S. Olympic medalists...
Boston Quartet. Performs string quartetsby Carl Nielsen and Niels W. Gade, in connectionwith the exhibition, "Danish Paintings of theNineteenth Century from the Collection ofAmbassador John L. Loeb, Jr." Fogg Art Museum,5:30 p.m. $4 for students; $3 for Friends of theUniversity Art Museums...