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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1985
Award-winning quartet to perform
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Krista Bennion only partially realized her goal to study violin at the Curtis Institute of Music. She and two friends from the San Francisco Conservatory did study at Curtis, in Philadelphia, but not for long.
Bennion and her friends, violinist Robert Rinehart and violist Ah Ling Neu, joined with cellist Ramon Bolpata to form a competitive performing group, the Ridge String Quartet.
After winning both the Fischoff Chamber Music competition in Southbend, Ind., and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in Los Angeles, in 1882, the Ridge String Quartet became a professional touring group.
The Ridge String Quartet will perform in the KU Chamber Music Series at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Crafton-Preyer Theater, Murphy Hall. Tickets for the concert are $4.50 and $5.50 for KU and kindergarten through 12th-grade students. Public tickets cost $9 and $11, and senior
citizens tickets are $8 and $10.
"Some judges encouraged us to stick together and become a professional touring quartet," Bennion said last week. "That encouragement plus Schneider's and Felix's encouragements helped us stay together."
The members of the quartet were performing with the New York String Orchestra in 1981 and 1982 under the direction of Alexander Schneider, who is the only living member of the Budapest String Quartet. Felix
Galimer was one of the quartet's instructors at Curtis.
Bennion said she liked playing with a quartet because she worked with other people on a continuous basis and because there was "more great music" for quartets.
"Playing in a quartet is difficult technically as well as musically," Bennion said. "Agreeing on the way to play something is often difficult and the ability of members to give and take a little bit is very important."
At the Spoleta Festival in Charleston, S.C., the Quartet earned the reputation as a group with technical security, taut ensemble, remarkable blend, fine rhythmic sense, subtle style, intelligent planning and knowledgeable repertoire.
"Success for a musician is being totally devoted to music and really loving what you do and just wanting to share music with other people," Bennion said. "If you want to give through music, it seems like things work themselves out so you can. It helps that we all come from a similar musical background."
"We all met in the preparatory department of the San Francisco Conservatory when we were in high school. We would go there on Saturdays."
The quartet will play three chamber pieces for the KU concert: Haydn's String Quartet in G Major, Opus 17, No. 5; Bartok's Quartet, No. 2, Opus 17; and Beethoven's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 74.
"The Haydn piece is very heavy with a dramatic operatic quality but still has the humor of Haydn," she said. "The Bartok quartet is the most lyrical and beautiful of Bartok's quartets. The Beethoven piece is my favorite. It has been nicknamed the Harp Quartet and is one of those monumental quartets."
The Ridge String Quartet
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