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Sanders Theatre provided a real challenge for Alexander Schneider and Chamber Ensemble Monday night during the first of five concerts to be presented by the Harvard Summer School. The theatre was filled to capacity and programs used as fans provided the only ventilation aside from the windows, which allowed the noise of motorcycles, honking horns, and fire sirens to compete with the music...
...group consisted of two violinists, Alexander Schneider and Isadore Cohen, one violist, Samuel Rhodes, and two cellists, Leslie Parnas and Robert Sylvester. They performed the String Quarter in E major, Opus 17, No. 1 by Hayden, Divertimento in E-flat major, K. 563, by Mozart, and Cello Quintet in C major, Opus 163, by Shubert. Of the musicians, the most distinguished was Alexander Schneider, who, with wirey grey-black hair and metal rimmed glasses, sat perched on the edge of his chair, playing with never-failing energy, expression, and accuracy...
Although during the Hayden piece the second violinist appeared to provide background for Schneider's brilliant performance, the quartet nonetheless played as one--with perfect balance, coordinated variation, and excellent timing...
...Mozart piece got off to a rather weak start when the cellist's music dropped to the floor. With great aplomb, Schneider leaned down to pick it up, commenting, "Well done." During the first movement, Allegro, certain motifs played by the violinist were to be echoed by the violist, who, in contrast, failed to match the agility and lightness of Schneider's playing. The group did, however, make very effective transitions and tempo changes. Played with apparent quickness and ease, the Menuetto Allegretto had an incomparable dance-like quality. The final Allegro moved well and provided an excellent ending...
...Andress, 32, the smoky Swiss beauty of The Tenth Victim and Dr. No, all swaddled in an ankle-length car duster. And that about describes her latest flick, Southern Star, currently shooting in the wilds of Senegal. Ursula spends most of the movie jouncing around in a 1912 Rochet-Schneider trying to spring her fiancé (George Segal) from the local hoosegow where he's been tossed by her dad as a suspected jewel thief. But voyeurs need not despair: hopefully, in Ursula's next film it's back to the undressed Andress...