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From Chicago, through no miles of sleet and snow, drove Manager Leon Perssion and one of the finest string quartets in the world-the Pro Arte. This quartet still calls 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...
...constant search for neglected music, and also the regular inclusion on symphony programs of a large body of minor work. It is different with chamber music. One can go to the New Friends of Music Series in New York year after year and hear only the greatest in string-quartet literature...
Beethoven: Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp Minor (Budapest String Quartet; Columbia; 10 sides; $5.50). Among Beethoven's last and loftiest musings, faultlessly recaptured by the Budapesters...
...Yves Tinayre Recital (Baritone Yves Tinayre, with the Dvonch string ensemble; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Frenchman Tinayre, an eminent musicologist, makes troubadour songs and church airs a glowing tapestry...
Goalie Grover O'Neill now has string of three consecutive shutouts to his credit, as the score of last Tuesday's game with Noble and Greenough stood at 4 to 0. Thus the not result of a week's activity by the Yardlings shows three games won, none lost, and fourteen goals scored against the opposition's none...