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Cuarteto LatinoamGricano
Min chamber musicians bring unique sound to Rudder
BY SUZANNE BRABECK
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Texas Ail,
'iBnate gatherings, for most of
j on j the college-aged demographic,
.do 1 not involve string quartets
'alignedMr in the most drastic need- for-
,o ihetr M^phere situations.
TheCuarteto Latinoamericano,
i a newm^B 1 chamber ensemble, is com-
’)xxr 8 t0 P Ruclcler Theater tonight as
'rcdccc;-‘M irst “Intimate Gatherings”
S ijji S : irf^rmance.
oneo(! ' The MSC Opera and Performing
> on the .tsSociety (OPAS) bring violinists
ivnsj tulland Aron and cellist Alvaro,
me shi hojare all brothers, and violinist
for theMontiel to Texas A&M to
tonic An^ ov j^ e an out ^ et ^ or students who
lerestir ■ ijoy both the symphony and clas-
wis3^ callmusic.
a to ni Jeremy Byrd, president of MSC
PAS and a senior psychology ma-
runhe- T,kaid this performance will be a
<ndbe tiity small-venue program,
i J~he quartet will perform in
ishouk udder Theater, which holds about
arter. 50people,” Byrd said,
aid have- “The quartet will be especially
atgear iteresting to those students who
Ling a kf.H interested in string instru-
■fa lems.”
it move- i Cuarteto Latinoamericano has
(is butt een around since 1981 and has
highe erformed on most mass-media
rolsha enues, including radio, television
eratc;..nd live concerts,
rely, thetBuarteto Latinoamericano is go-
1 remf agio the be the “ground-breaker”
an use tit Df a new OPAS program called In-
Lip out e: mate Gatherings.
Bara Peeples, director of public
1} Ms i Si Btions for OPAS and a junior ac-
tor partit minting ma j or> sa id the new se-
1 will bring the audience closer
, o the performers. There has nev-
! Aeen an OPAS performance in
the theater, but OPAS hopes its in
timate setting will be fresh and
new to the organization.
“This performance is also
unique because after their perfor
mance, there will be a 30-minute
question-and-answer period,”
Peeples said.
Byrd said a mediator will regu
late the discussion.
Byrd said it is often hard to co
ordinate when companies can
perform for OPAS because of their
hectic schedules.
“This time things just nicely fell
into place,” Byrd said. “We were
trying to book an act to reflect Na
tional Hispanic Heritage month,
and this time it worked out nicely. ”
The MSC Program Advisory
Committee was in charge of decid
ing which performances would
come to year and said this group
stood out because of their positive
reviews. Fanfare magazine said of
the group, “It has a clean, tight en
semble, startling luxuriance of tone
and the delightful collective habit
of playing cleanly on pitch.”
The group also was praised by
many other newspapers, includ
ing the San Francisco Chronicle
who described the quartet as a
“first-rate ensemble of passionate
temperament.”
As the quartet has spread its
music across the continents, it has
captured many accomplishments
and praises.
Its first CD containing three
quartets by Ginastera won the New
York Times Critic’s Choice for 1989
by the New York Times, and have
since produced 14 more CDs.
“The performances are excep
tional,” Fanfare magazine said.
“The Cuarteto Latinoamericano
seems to own this music. It plays
with enormous precision and pas-
PHOTO COURTESY OF CUARTETO LATINOAMERICANO
Cuarteno Latinoamericano will be performing tonight at Rudder Theater
sion. I can’t imagine better inter
pretations.”
Since October is Hispanic Her
itage Month, it is only fitting to
highlight a well-known Latin en
semble to perform for the Texas
A&M crowd.
For students from large metro
politan cities, cultural program
ming may be reminiscent of
home. However, this program
ming also serves as an opportuni
ty for those students who have
never had the chance or desire to
try something new or for those
who came from small towns with
out the resources to attract such a
world-renowned organization.
“We are trying to get the word
out to all students about the pro
gram, but we have made a special
attempt to invite Latin-American
groups, Spanish classes and other
Hispanic organizations to the per
formance,” Byrd said.
Like most college students who
have two homes, so does Cuarte
to Latinoamericano.
The group holds two teaching
jobs, one at the Centro Nacional
de las Artes in Mexico City and
one at the Carnegie Mellon Uni
versity in Pittsburgh. The group,
which has been employed by the
Carnegie Mellon for 12 years, was
chosen for its magnificent skill
and range.
Houston Newsweekly magazine
also praised the group, saying,
“they play with more fire, precision,
and taste than their North Ameri
can peers. [They are] one of the
most satisfying performances of
Schubert’s music that I’ve heard.”
NN’s Millennium series analyzes past thousand years
EW YORK (AP) — If you do
ath on “Millennium,” CNN’s
our portrait of the past thou-
years, one is struck by all that
t be missing.
'igure it out: “Millennium” has
s than 30 seconds to cover each
’s global happenings from AD
to the present. Is this a docu-
tary series or a fool’s errand?
If you tune in its premiere Sun-
|at 10 p.m. EDT, Millennium will
rise you.
[though it was spurred by mil-
nnium mania, this would be a fas-
liating series in any year. It is an
nbitious project with no stake in
Sng all-inclusive, just compelling,
ltd how time flies when you are
Iving fun.
Tin five vignettes each hour (that
per century). Millennium seizes
'n big stories, personalities and
deas, then presents them with
najesty and style. Actor Ben Kings-
ey narrates, but the words take a
ack seat to the visuals and music.
“It’s intended to be a pleasure
;r the eye and the ear,” British
maker Sir Jeremy Isaacs, who
ared executive producer duties
with Pat Mitchell, president of
[me Inc.-CNN Productions, said.
It’s history as a magic carpet ride
nto the past.”
Here is the itinerary for the first
edition, “Century of the Sword: The
Eleventh Century”:
"/t's history as a
magic carpet ride
into the past/'
— Pat Mitchell
president, Time Inc.
CNN Productions
— The world’s preeminent civi
lization, China, which had innova
tions other cultures hadn’t even
imagined: printing, paper money,
gunpowder and kites that carried
humans aloft. Not to mention what
was perhaps the world’s first
restaurant (it specialized in take
out chicken).
— The vast expanse of Islam
from India to Spain, flourishing par
ticularly in Cordoba, Europe’s
largest city, which was home to
more than 1,000 mosques.
— India, whose towering spiri
tualism, scholarship and wealth
were undermined by its indiffer
ence to neighboring cultures and
their advances.
— Jerusalem, where pilgrims
flocked from all over Europe seek
ing salvation as they anticipated the
thousandth anniversary of Christ’s
crucifixion in 1033 — and perhaps
the end of the world.
— And imperial seclusion in
Japan as chronicled by Sei
Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting in the
royal court, in her diary The Pillow
Book. A splendid sanctuary of
friskiness that makes the Playboy
Mansion seem like a flophouse,
here no one ever seemed to get a
full night’s sleep — or be bur
dened with a full night’s bedfel
low. Declares The Pillow Book:
“One’s attachment to a man de
pends largely on the elegance of
his leave-taking.”
Millennium will continue each
Sunday, devoted to a successive
hundred years with a loosely ap
plied theme (Century of the
Scythe, Telescope, Furnace,
Globe). It concludes Dec. 12 with,
natch, the 20th century.
Along the way, a special Web
site (CNN.com/1000) will offer sup
plementary material for viewers
whose curiosity is piqued by
glimpses of Genghis Kahn, those
enormous sailing vessels of Admi
ral Zheng, the exquisite churches
carved from an Ethiopian moun
tainside, or Pierre de Maupertuis,
who almost 300 years ago led an
expedition to the Arctic Circle to
determine Earth’s precise shape.
“We know our own history
best,” Isaacs said, acknowledging
that narcissism and proximity dis
tort one’s view of the past. “But
Millennium tells of other histories,
of people all over the world who in
the last thousand years influenced
those around them.”
In doing so. Millennium adds
up to 50 illuminating sketches.
Does it add up to anything
more sweeping? Can any grand
conclusions about humankind’s
past be reached?
“This was never intended to be
a series that drew a line through
things,” Isaacs said. He can point
to three concepts binding these
1,000 years.
“First, science overtakes reli
gion as an explanation of how the
world works.
“Second, you see the balance of
world interest and cultural energy
moving from the East to the West.”
“And, third, the world’s piece
meal knowledge of itself becomes
a general awareness. Once, few
people knew what life was like
over the next mountain or beyond
the sea.”
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