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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5, 1975 Guarneri String Quartet Music determines moods By DAN WHEELER Battalion Staff Reviewer The Guarneri String Quartet, that ensemble of four virtuoso musi cians who thoroughly dazzled an in excusably small audience in the Rudder Theater last night, draws its name from a master violin maker of the early eighteenth century. Thoroughly disgusted with the violins his contemporaries in the Italian province of Cremona were producing, Giuseppi Antonio Guarneri (called del Gesu) devoted his life to the revival of the Brescian school of violinmaking. His efforts resulted in instruments with bold outlines, distinctive scrolls, and rich, full tone, second only in qual ity to those of his predecessor An tonio Stradivarious. On the basis of last night’s per formance, it is plainly evident that violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dailey, violist Michael Tree, and cellist David Soyer are to musi cians as is Guarneri to violin mak ers, definitely of the highest order. The first of the 1975-76 OPAS Special Attractions, the Guarneri Quartet began the program with Felix Mendelssohn’s broad, gentle, elegant Quartet in E flat Major. “Felix,” the composer’s first name, is Latin for happy. The word happy accurately describes the creamy sea within which the four masters bap tized the mesmerized audience. In spite of the spirited stacatto of the Canzonetta allegretto movement and the introduction to the molto allegro vivace, the Quartet in E flat atio », c \ of Scic Sei 5:5 S Wfi /oi nc tbe JE-i JR 1 [OB ,-821 AL! 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The contract is worth $6 million a year. “If we don’t get paid, the car people in Michigan don’t get paid and the glass people in Pittsburgh don’t get paid and the tire people in Akron don’t get paid and so forth,” Koeppel said. “But we got faith. We got faith the money will come from somewhere, FOOD DISCOUNT COUPON BOOKLET Discount food coupon booklets are now available at the Food Services Office, Sbisa Hall and the MSC Food Services Manager s Office. Coupons are redeemable in campus cash food facilities. Quality First 80 col \ $1‘ Crush all smokes dead out. & "i i' W.-riSR o» /• • ' mm Please: help prevent forest fires. because if it doesn’t, an awful lot of people in an awful lot of towns are going to suffer.” Koeppel said this shipment at least will go through and added he s already used his own money to pay for them. Thomas Cecil, president of Swift & Co. in Chicago, telephoned pur chasing commissioner Robert I. Cohen the other day dunning him for a $605,()()() unpaid food bill. Cohen said Cecil told him if the city doesn’t pay the company would have to close a section employing 110 men, the largest single loss in the history of the meat packing firm. “This thing is national in scope, Cohen said in an interview. “And it works two ways. If we can’t pay the bills, they re not going to deliver. What are we going to do for water if we can’t pay for the chemicals to purify it?” The national scope of unpaid New York City bills was a major theme of a speech Mayor Abraham D. Beame prepared for the National Press Club in Washington today. The city, meanwhile, is entering into no new contracts except short term ones for such perishable items as fresh foods. Truck farmers from as far away as Iowa and Florida were reported among the most insistent callers. Some of them grow produce almost exclusively for the city. “Some of the smaller firms will go bankrupt if New York City goes bankrupt,” Cohen said. City officials said big firms would not be hurt over-all, but sections devoted mostly to supplying New York would be. For instance, there is a $12.5 mill ion a year contract with Interna tional Harvester for Sanitation De partment equipment made in Springfield, Ohio, and Fort Wayne, Ind. IBM supplies $1.5 million a year worth of goods from Boca Raton, Fla.; Rochester, Minn.; Boulder, Colo.; and Raleigh, N.C. Xerox has another $1.5 million annual contract in which Rochester, N.Y. is interested. Embrey’s Jewelry We Specialize In Aggie Rings. Diamonds Set — Sizing — Reoxidizing — All types watch/jewelry Repair Aggie Charge Accounts 9-5:30 846-5816 Sales Center For: RIDE ON! PEUGEOT 0?AL£f<ZH FOLDS N,f fiff WE SERVICE ALL MAKES OF BICYCLES Bicycle parts & accessories CENTRAL CYCLE & SUPPLY 3505 E. 29th St. — 822-2228 Take East University to 29th St. (Tarrow Street) was broad, emotional, flawlessly performed, and soothing. Only John Milton could describe the change in mood wrought by the evening’s second feature, Bela Bar- tok’s Third String Quartet. The honeyed lines of Mendelssohn were forgotten as the violent, very dis sonant, barbaric lines of Bartok fell upon the audience. The expertise with which The Guarneri Quartet presented the Third was mind- boggling, particularly on the part of Steinhardt, who coaxed unthinka ble sounds from his instrument. The neo-Bachian polyphony, the per cussive, tocatta-like rhythm, the frightening dynamics were all played to perfection. The spirit of Bela Bartok was no gentle ona as his Third String Quar tet indicates. The audience was fully aware of the hellish, unholy, power ful, and savage emotions which permeate the Third. As Soyer, Tree, Dailey, and Steinhardt set their bows to rest, relief was obvi ously the dominant sentiment among the audience. With the final work of the even ing, Franz Schubert’s Quartet in D minor, the Guarneri Quartet led the audience from the gloomy, macabre, void where they had led them with the Bartok selection to the rich, intellectually satisfying realm of the sublime. Conceivably the most popular quartet Schubert wrote, the D minor began as one of bis songs, “Tod und das Madchen.” (Death and the Maiden) This song appears in the slow movement where it is the subject of variations. The D minor, although vigorous in the scherzo movement, never completely loses its somber air. In the final movement, the presto, ap pears an undeniably tragic conflict which is never resolved. In spite of pretexts at gaiety, the work never frees itself from the chords of death. In the hands of Steinhardt, Dai ley, Tree, and Soyer, who function like one organism with eight arms and forty fingers, the D minor quar tet was profoundly unified. The melancholic contours were never abandoned. The spiritual pathos roamed vividly through the score, sometimes obscurely, but always alive. Through a peculiar wizardry which comes only from intimate familiarity with instrument and work, the Guarneri Quartet’s per formance seemed drawn from Dante Aligheri’s Divine Comedy. At their command, the elements of earthly life, the inferno, and the in tellectual paradise were called forth and revealed to their small but ap preciative audience. ■□□□■aBQQOQB □□DDQBBiiaoaa bbbbqooqobbb BDaBQOBBaciGlB WANT AD RATES One day 10c per word Minimum charge—$1.00 Classified Display $1.50 per column inch each insertion ALL classified ads must be pre-paid. 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