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...majority of tickets are sold beforehand through a subscription series, in which patrons select at the beginning of the season seven events out of the offerings. The remaining tickets are sold at box offices immediately before the event. Thus, a group such as the Guarneri String Quartet is already sold out, although the performance date is March 1977. But Pierce says, "Some events really surprise me--for example Segovia never sells well in subscription, but does at the box office. Fortunately, Boston is a city most major artists want to play, and I can afford to turn down artists' agents...
Early in the third quarter, Columbia's Lou Guarneri blocked a Tim Martin punt. The drive stalled, and the Lions had to settle for Rudy Gisolfi's 37-yard field goal...
...Monday Night Concert Series begins at Sanders Theatre, continuing every Monday through August 4. Guarneri String Quartet. Admission charge...
Though all four men are accomplished soloists, they display considerable sub-limination of artistic ego when they have their bows together. In traditional quartets, the first violinist is the unofficial leader; the Guarneri has no real chief. Though rehearsals often turn into vociferous debates, they are never allowed to get out of hand. Says Tree, "the performance always comes first." Two-to-two splits are resolved pragmatically by trying out both ideas at successive concerts...
...more surprised by its rapid rise than the quartet itself. Quartet members often make ends meet by teaching, solo appearances and freelancing. "We were prepared for a long, hard struggle," says Dalley. In fact, the Guarneri's financial worries have been so remarkably short-lived that they are reducing their outside teaching commitments. This year, the quartet will give about 100 concerts (at $1,200 each), compared with a mere dozen in 1965. Its recording work is also increasing, in anticipation of next year's Beethoven bicentennial; the Guarneri will by then have recorded...