Word: quartet
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Minor 8:45 News From the Colleges: M.I.T. Night 9:00 "Nine O'clock Jump" 9:30 Swimming Team Bull-Session with Ca pt. Fannies Powers 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Casella-Suite From La Glara Cropland-El Salon Mexico B loch-quintet for plane and string quartet 10:45 Crimson News and Interview...
There are four jazz bands, a string quartet, several piano teams, and specialists on the guitar, accordion, cello, and violin. Also available are several vocalists and a vocal quartet...
...Stradivarius String Quartet, which is again making Harvard its headquarters this year, has been touring House Common-rooms for several weeks with its performances of chamber-music. Tuesday night at Leverett House it played a program very likely to be repeated at the Fogg Wednesday evening, which included an early Beethoven quartet, a Schumann quartet, and a quartet by the contemporary talent Martinu. This followed out their usual policy of playing at each concert one classical, one romantic, and one modern quartet. The players made sure to place their modern offering in the middle: doubtless they were afraid of shocking...
...high-school once had the habit of peppering his exampapers with little academic witticisms, (partly in order to raise his grade). He got one paper back totally uncorrected, except for the single terse remark: "Clover--but not true." This one phrase well strikes the effect of the Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times to a Brahmsian luxuriance at others...
...other hand, the Schumann A major quartet that the Stradivarius men played, did ring true. Not one of Schumann's greatest works, like all his work, it diffused a fresh lyrical charm which was a pleasure to listen to after the nervous pyrotechnics of the Martinu quartet...