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Married. Fou Ts'Ong, 39, concert pianist who in 1959 defected to the West from Communist China; and Hijong Hyun, 29, daughter of South Korea's Ambassador to Morocco; he for the second time (after an earlier marriage to Zamira Menuhin, daughter of Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin), she for the first; in London...
...years, has taken guitar lessons since 9th grade, and plays the lute. When she studied in Germany she and a banjo player put together a series of concerts and lectures on American folk music. While working at Tanglewood for the BSO she frequented the shop of a violin maker because she enjoyed its atmosphere of glue pots and violin parts. However Mayman does not own one of the musical appliances which most people take for granted--a record player--largely because she associates it with being settled...
Next came the Phantasie for violin with piano accompaniment, op. 47 of Schoenberg, with Lynn Chang on the violin and Marta Dabezies at the piano. This piece would be of some historical interest, in any event, since it is Schoenberg's last will and testament, the last work he composed; but Mr. Chang's faultless account of the virtuosic violin part made the Phantasie interesting as music. Both performers obviously relished the music, and they richly deserved the hearty applause they received. (I can't remember any Schoenberg opus getting this kind of hand...
After intermission the recital closed with the big piece on the program--the Piano Quintet in A, op. 81 of Dvorak, with Alan Marks, piano, Robert Portney, first violin, Ronan Lefkowitz, second violin, James Froelich, viola and Mary Ann Elder, cello. It may seem that the performers who choose to play such a bag of musical sweets as this Dvorak Quintet can hardly fail to satisfy, no matter how they play. However, an audience usually senses when the players are "fudging," and does not respond. Here the players admitted nary an iota of fudge to their bag of sweets--just...
...Monday Night Concert Series begins at Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall. The Harvard Summer School Chamber Players will perform Mozart's Trro in E flat major for clarinet, viola and piano, K. 498; Schoenberg's Phantasie for violin with piano accompaniment; and Dvorak's Quintet in A major for piano and strings, Op. 81. Admission: $2.00. Tickets available at the Loeb Drama Center, the Holyoke Center Ticket Office, and at the door...