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Thursday, January 29, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Members' opinions sometimes clash but quartet's sound is still in harmony
The Julliedi String Quartet will perform at 3.30 p.m. Sunday at Crafton-Prairie Theatre in Murphy Hall in a concert presented by the Musical Society of tickets are on sale at Murphy Hall Box Office
By LAURA BOSTROM Staff writer
A member of one of the world's pre-eminent string quartets played
piano in a blues band while in college.
"I have a very checkercoated histo-
Joel Smirnoff said from his New
ny home. Smirnoff is second
victim for the Juillard String
Quartet.
Smirnoff played in the jazz band while studying history at the University of Chicago. He said his past was regrettably unusual.
But classical music was part of Smirroff's background. His father was a violinist. "When I was a child and young adult I was in quartets," he said.
He attended the Juilliard School in New York for two years, "gutting it out," he said, to receive a bachelor of arts and master's degree. After graduating from Juilliard, he did freelance work, and then joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1980. He was with the symphony when he auditioned for the quartet.
"The Juillard String Quartet is one of the top string quartets in the world," said Jackie Davis, director of the University of Kansas chamber music and concert series.
The members are warm, delightful individuals who easily communicate their interest in music, Davis said.
Robert Mann, a co-founder of the quartet, plays first violin; Samuel Rhodes, the viola; and Joel Krosnick, the cello.
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The group plays more than 100 concerts a season and works with student quartets at the Juilliard School. Once a month they have an open rehearsal for the public.
"The audience gets to watch us argue," said Smirnoff.
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Therapists have told him that a group with four members is unstable.
The Juillard Quartet has seen several membership changes and in-
creases.
"We have to work as a committee and achieve a democratic balance," Smirnoff said.
"Therapy groups must have at least five." Sprintr said.
"If we have a disagreement, we will play it both ways and choose the one that is best for the group," he said. "We try to maintain freedom within the group."
The group has occasional lively discussions, but they know how to compromise and work through them. He said the other players had creative minds, but different viewpoints.
"The performance is a moment of tremendous excitement," Smirnoff said. "We all get intense and hypersensitive to each other."
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Smirnoff said a listener should try to hear the four voices of the quartet interact during the concert, noticing how the voices change, unify, and disperse.
But Davis said students are busy with classes, tests and activities and don't take time out for classical concerts.
"They don't take that hour and a half and stop," Davis said. "They leave without experiencing the best music in the world."
Smirnoff said the concert would be tremendously dramatic.
"It will be one very long journey to a tremendously powerful finale," he said.
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