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Senturia conducting Webern and Mozart was prodigy performing prodigies...
...spectrum of radicalism is quite irrelevant to experiencing them, because dissonance, tonality and the like have a quite dubious bearing on the actual emotional content of the music. Indeed, the quartets of Billy Jim Layton and Robert Moevs (both Assistant Professors) were more "shocking" than that of Anton Webern. You don't have to consult the dialectic before calling any of them modern...
Their ability to sense change of tone made comprehensible the austere 12-tone style of Webern's Quartet Opus 28. After all, the only basis for judging a technique as rational as this one is whether or not it works, and the kaleidoscope of feelings this quartet displayed showed how good a tool it can be, when performed accurately. Since a major problem for modern music is careful performance, this group is a boon...
More because of the program than the performance, the Paganini Quartet produced a remarkable concert last Friday night. Two important modern works, by Alberto Ginestera and Anton Webern, carried away the best efforts of the Quartet, but stand-by quartets by Haydn and Beethoven received flat performances...
...Webern's Five Pieces of String Quartet experiment with the tensions of silence. They are an exquisite exploration of the shades of restraint, a catalogue of delicate sonorities. In contrast to the Ginestera, every note comes necessarily, logically; Webern probed deeply, but quietly. The five short pieces alternate in mood from taut chattering to strained deliberation. Yet every note requires sensitivity, and in response the Quartet turned in its best job of the evening...