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General Committee: Marshall Hughes, of Thayer; Robert F. McGivern, of 16 Walcott Road, Watertown; George W. Mallory, of Thayer; Alan C. Tindal, of Weld...
...Brussels its home, but only in a far, faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window. By the time the quartet reached Watertown High School, 700 youngsters, who had stayed after school to hear them, had begun to fidget. Said a 14-year-old to a friend...
...bowed gravely, sat down on a platform under a basketball goal. They played Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms. They were applauded con brio. As the audience filed out, many were heard to praise the Pro Arte Quartet, and to vow that the 50? admission was cheap: the sponsors (the college and Watertown's Euterpe Club) could easily have charged $1.50. Next day, Newsman Clarence Wetter said in the Watertown Times: "It was an artistic triumph...
...Arte's standard fee is $500. For playing in Watertown it got nothing. The Watertown sponsors put up $250, which the University of Wisconsin collected. For this year the university pays the quartet a salary ($10,000, contributed by four Wisconsin friends and alumni-among them, Joe Davies). The Pro Arte's duties are to teach university students, coach the string section of the university symphony, give 35 concerts. The double-header in Watertown was the first of a small-town series. Wisconsin prices the quartet at $500, but will take less...
...Arte Quartet plan to go to California next summer, return to Madison next autumn. They never play down to any audience, think that concerts like those in Watertown prove them right...