Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1948 — Page 26

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S The Esme Musie Society began its 1948-49 season In| . World War Memorial last last night with a recital by the Juilliard String Quartet, «

For a Season‘opener., the choice was excellent.

~' | Those young men, quartet-in-residence at New York's s Juilliard {§ School, have a great deal of verve and energy in addition to the technical

mastery required for good ‘clamber music. Their program, which sandwiched Alban Berg's Lyric Suite between Haydn's C major Quar-

tet, Op. 54, No. 1 and Beethoven's)

F major Quartet, Op. 135, was cleverly planned. For tender-minded listeners, the sequence resembled the: southern prohibition -time sequence of orange juice, corn likker and orange juice, I gathered from intermission comments that some listeners find Berg a little hard to take,

even though the Lyric Suite is

1926 vintage and certainly aged by this time. What seems to be really hard to take is Berg's departure from well-trodden paths. Puzzles Listeners . All that ghostly-ghastly noodling with bows a 16th of an inch

_ from the bridge puzzles hearers

accustomed to patterns. The tortuous (and fascinating) melodic lines, which have only the ‘vaguest resemblance to Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven, may seem either offeénsive or comical. There were some titters during the Lyric Suite and some farfetched literary comparisons during intermission. Both forms of critical comment seem fo me to miss the boat. In a midland city like this, or even in the over-rated East ‘where boards of directors have more power than adaptability, ‘concert-subscribers are ‘“conditioned” to the classics. I might say we're stuck with Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, for better or for worse, till death do us part. I'm not ‘quarreling with those three masters. $

BRILLIANT/ JR}

classical-music

But here's a point: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven (I don’t mean! the tremendous works) right now could easily be piped into a club

tling anybody. In Munich in 1932

I heard a cafe orchestra play >

Mozart and American jazz with almost equal facility.

The classics have. become an| accompaniment to living. Through, recordings, they're as familiar as color photos of great paintings on your living-room wall. Why go to the concert hall to hear what you already = know practically by heart? That's an argument for greater daring in program-planning. Let's have more 20th-century, less 18th and 19th-century material in public programs. You can be sure that an outfit like the Juilliard Quartet, which did a magnificent job with the incredible difficulties of Berg's Lyric Suite, would like nothing better than a free hand (no concessions to conservative, influen-

ing modern works. Lets’ hear some more rugged stuff. Let's know we're alive today.

DePauw Students To Present Recital

Times State Service GREENCASTLE, Apr. 15 — A special ensemble recital will be presented by students in the DePauw University School of Music at 7:30 p. m. today in Meharry Hall ‘on the campus.

Participating in the program will be: Joseph Eads, Indianapolis; William Shemberger, Elk hart; William Townsley, Princeton; - William Grass, Brazil; Charles Henley, Plainfield; Kenneth Ingram, Elkhart; Earl Duke, Bremen, and Nancy Volers, Jeffersonville, Other participants include: Ben Cole, Au Gres, Mich.; Albert Fiorillo, Yonkers, N. Y.; James Webb, Chicago; James Scholl, River Forest, Ill; David Ott,

- Granville, 0.; Tames Brown, East

bist. Louis, Ill; Joan Lindemeyer,

i | Kirkwood, Mo., and Dora May | Hildebrand, Rockford, Ill

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| SENS SATION AL!

PLAN PIANO RECITAL The Indianapolis Piano Teachers Association will present an advanced students’ recital at 3 p. m. next Sunday in the DAR Chapter House. ; Hostesses will be Mrs. Norma Kristian and Miss Maxine Hodson. Mrs. W. G. Patterson is as-

sociation president.

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RISING STAR—James Pease, Indianapolis-born bass-baritone and frequent visitor as soloist to his home state, who will make still another Indiana appearance this season as one of a quarete of soloists in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with-Hans Schwieger and the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra in Ft. Wayne next Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

LEADS CHOIR—Dr. John Finlay Williamson, director of the famed Westminster Choir, which. will be heard in a con. cert at 8:15 p. m. Monday, Apr. 26. : The concert will be held in Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge, under sponsorship of the Indianspel Choir Directors’ Associaion.

Jordan Chorale To Sing in Detroit

The Jordan Chorale, directed by Lloyd F., Sunderman, will sing at 4 p. m. next Monday. in Detroit at the biennial convention of the Music Educators National Conference. Dr. S8underman’s 48-voice choir will sing for the vocal workshop section of the copvention, which opesn tomorrow and closes next Thursday.

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Viennese Music Carded at Purdue

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