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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Feb. 16. 1960
By Stuart Levine Instructor in English
A really first-rate string quartet performed for the edification of the faculty last evening at Swarthout Recital Hall. I suppose there were five or six undergraduates in the place to hear the Netherlands Quartet play a program of music by Pijper, Dvorak, Beethoven and Mozart.
William Pijper's Quartet Number Five, with which the evening opened, is a warm and lyrical work, basically simple in melodic content. Its dissonance is unaffected; it comes when the lines demand it. Such straightforward expressiveness makes it somehow akin to the Dvorak piece which followed; it also makes it splendidly appropriate for the style of this group of performers.
Everyone, especially the cellist, looked pleased after the playing of the opening movement of the Dvorak F Major (Number 6, Opus 96, "American"). They deserved to, for the work calls for exactly those qualities the Hollanders have—warmth, expressiveness and a thoroughly mellow string sound. If the piece is not great music, or even very good Dvorak, it is great fun. The quartet stomped joyously through the rustic Finale, and the cellos solos in the Andante were lovely.
Beethoven's E Flat Major (Opus
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127) I was somewhat less convincing. I don't know whether the trouble was that the players are temperamentally less well-suited to this music or whether they were just bushed, but the playing was not as precise and lacked the requisite intensity. The stately and gracious slow movement was fine; the rest not up to the group's high standards;
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But the Minuet from Mozart's Quartet K. 499 was right up the Quartet's alley, Nice meaty Mozart, this, and the Netherland String Quartet never let us forget the movement's dance origins.
Ticket Exchange Set
This will be the only time students may exchange tickets. The cost is $1 and the Colorado game is the last time an ID exchange will be offered this year. The exchange is primarily for high school students.
Baur to Speak
E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology, will speak to the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ninth Street Baptist Church.
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Great Poetry of the World Read by Glenn Hunt
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Post-Game
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VARSITY DRAG
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Admission $1.00 Per Couple
SATURDAY, FEB. 20
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Music by George Ti Dona
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