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String quartet players probably have more fun than any other musicians, for each of them-two fiddlers, a violist and a cellist-is in sole charge of a part that would be played by a whole section in an orchestra. But string-quartet music, limited to small halls, has a reputation as "difficult" listening. It has none of the sensational blare and boom of a symphony, its finely-spun lines are pared to essentials, requiring the listener's intense concentration; also, it lacks a conductor, whose dramatics an audience can follow. Today, the way for a quartet to establish...
...inspired writing, particularly when the 'cello had the melody up high against bitter chords in the upper strings. The slow last movement, however, seemed out of place and style of the other movements. The work received a fine passionate reading from the Quartet, with 'cellist Charles Forbes and violist Frederick Shoup playing with considerable distinction...
...Little Theater. The concerts are donated by Banker-Rancher Albert Gallatin Simms, onetime Congressman, in memory of his wife, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick. Each performance ends with Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44 (it is Sponsor Simms's favorite). This year's guest star: top Violist William Primrose...
...Miss Lennie Green, 41, a Negro, daughter of a Pullman porter and a seamstress. As a child she fell in love with Latin and music, eventually won her master's at Atlanta University with a thesis on the letters of Pliny the Younger. An accomplished pianist, violinist and violist. Miss Green now teaches music at Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School, also gives piano lessons at home. Over the years she has set hundreds of students to playing string quartets, singing chorales, attending symphony concerts in the city ("They come around to see her," says her mother...
Strauss: Don Quixote (Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch; Victor). A fairly beery treatment of the Cervantes tragicomedy by one of the world's great orchestraters. The Boston Symphony (plus Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Violinist Richard Burgin, Violist Joseph de Pasquale) gives it a foamy performance...