A GGIELIFE ^ageS^Wednesda^jOctobe^^l^QQ tLmatz ^atnsxLncj ± Cuarteto LatinoamGricano Min chamber musicians bring unique sound to Rudder BY SUZANNE BRABECK The Battalion sted tobt 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 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.” /X ¥ OfVWiOI i HO/VCIil I Medium One Topping Pizza $3.50 * Order 3 for free delivery gsga-Baioeac The Skin ♦ willkft (JEHTtt Body Solution Relaxing, therapeutic massages Supreme European facials European body wraps Celulite treatments Cali for an ap/n. today! 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