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ARTS A entertainments D4 Herald-Times, July 12, 1998 CINEMflf67il15oT Fine Arts Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio entertain this week next summer? Its in serious con-, tendon, according to Homer, Maybe Haydn, the father of them all when it cones to quartet writing. Maybe the piano quintet family. Maybe more Russian, music. talk it over. Its a long process.

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When I play diem, it always gives me 41 warm feeing. With Bartok, there is a peat music, too but 1 don't have the same feeling. And what about the Alfred Schnittke Quintet for Piano and Strings which the Fine Arts inserted into last Tuesdays concert, a departure from the Mozart-Shostakovich configuration? lOne of the most depressing ever written, said Evans with a smile.It was written in memory of his mother." hope his memories are happi- er than that. quipped Laufer. The conversation turned to.

Schnittke's place in the Soviet Union, as an open dissident. He became a composer forbidden to play," said Boica His memories involve the communist system and the tragedies it caused. The quintet expresses his feelings about silence. Ihe system silenced How terrible it must have been for him to have been deprived of a public Homer explained that the group had a chance to play the Schnittke several times with. pianist Gary Grafiman.

We thought it would be appreciated here in Bloomington. Rostis Borodin Quartet and Luba Edlina played it na long after it was written in the 1970s, and before Rosti 1 and Luba left Russia. It is music harder to take than Shostakovich, but its powerful youll find. Hes very sick now. Hes had strokes.

His tragedy continues. What else has been gang on with the Fine Arts? A recording of the Hugo Wolf Quartet anA Jtalian Serenade, finished and due out by the end of the year. A go at Dvorak on a CD to he recorded in November. A three-week European tour centered on France and Germany poised to start after the Bloomington visit is done. In the repertoire: Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy, Boccherini Arriega, virtually nothing of whats been featured hoe.

And, yes, the Opus 1, Na 1, String Quartet of Ralph Evans. It was introduced three years ago in Milwaukee. Europe now gets its chance, said Evans. He. smiled once more.

My master-: piece. 1 "Nice piece, said Boca Another year has pafcsed, added Laufer, noting that hoe I was with them again. Everything bfirie: All that tells me the year is gone is that the score is harder to read without glasses. What will the Fine Arts bring us ana hem Praesler mine, piped in Efim Boica his violin colleague, To juxtapose, according to cellist Wdang Laufer, is a good problem. Most of die Shostakovich, quartets, except the First, are seriously dramatic.

The Mozart pieces start us on an upbeat each concert arid give the audience a relaxing jewel at the end." Added Evans: But all music has shadings of emotions. There is redness, there is melancholy in the Mozart toa Boico termed Shostakovich a genius of the 20th century. We want to help give him a chance to get better known. Isn't he already rather well I asked. We get quite a bit of Shostakovich here in Bloomington.

"That's because of Rosti, said Laufer. He was referring to Rostislav Dubinsky, the late and still lamented member of the IU faculty who specialized in chamber music and earlier founded the Borodin Quartet that came to specialize in the jnusic of Shostakovich. Rosti was a big proponent He 'exposed you. You've been lucky. Elsewhere, die Shostakovich reputation still needs to grow.

I admit he's great' said Evans. "Also, however, people are taking more to him because they're desperate to latch on to a 20th century composer who is accessible. His -music containsliumor and sarcasm as well as the desperate. The harmonic and lyric mode sit wefi. Even Bartpk is more difficult Here we have apiece, likethe 7th or 8th Quartet written in the '50s or '60s.

It Is relatively modem, but it is music people can easily accept Theyre happy to find music of their time they can relate la In Homer's view, Both achieved great emotional depths, both Shostakovich and Mozart And they did so out of simplicity. "The Mozart, said Boico, SHOWACElin oiieqe Mail 4 f.v,ore5 Pk vtxlt our wafaalta www.herasoWxom wKiynw thftff Bomoffcfag What a bonanza! The Fine Arts Quartet has' been iri town and completes its exploration during die final two of six programs of Mozarts and Shostakovich's cham- tier group will perform Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. in. Auer HalL The earlier, program contains the Shostakovich Quartet Na II along will i the Mozart Quar-. let, and Quintet K.

174, the latter with violist Evelina. Chao. Thursdays finale-includes another Mozart set the K. 464 quartet and the K. 516 quintet (again with Chao as guest).

The Shostakovich Quartet Na 1 rounds out that program. -And now the Beaux Arts Trio conies along for an unveiling "in the -Musical Arts Center tonight; (at 8). Yes. an unveiling. Not of the musk: chosen.

We've heard Beethovens Trio in B-FIat Major, taveis Ttio in A Minor- and- Tchaikovsky's Trio in A Minor before, though not all of us as the Beaux Arts would do it But no, this time it's the Beaux Arts itself that gets an unveiling. 'Pianist Men ahem Pressler will be on the MAC stage, of coupe. Hes been the stabilizing center of the easemble from its start 'more than 40 years ago. The other two faces and bodies and held instruments will be however. Cellist Peter Wiley, who succeeded Bernard Greenhouse in 1987; and Ida Ijavafian, the violinist who followed Isidore Cohen into the trio in 1992, are no longer mem-Ix-re of the Beaux Arts.

In their chairs will be cellist Antonio Meneses and violinist Young UckKiih. Our Bloomington neighbor, the indefatigable, effervescent Pressler, chooses to de-emphasize why Wiley and Kavafian are gone. "It is less helpful to speaWxmt that, he says. "Ihere are reasrais from ail three erf us. We dissolved in harmony.

We. Itarted good friends. The former contingent played a final New Yak program May 23 at the Metropolitan useurii of Art. The New York Times' Bernard Kavafians hard-driving and fastidious musi-cality and Mr. Wileys thin, self-effacing elegance have been at some distance from the Old Wold expansiveness of their predecessors.

With Young Uck Kim as the new violinist and Antonio Meneses the cellist, will the Beaux Arts Trio still be the Beaux Arts Trio, or has it been for years? Of course. Mr. Pressler remains, and his piano is at the center of the trio for-mat 1 iressler. tells me: The exciting reason for change is that it can make things better. He sounds most anxious to emphasize the comings rather than the goings.

He speaks erf a closer fit, adding that the only reason to do it is to make the ensemble extra special Its not for more concerts. It's for a greater urgency, for greater meaning." Prosier calls Mm and Meneses two great instrumentalists and musicians. Its always dangerous, he says, to tamper with peraonneL One wrong move, and all can be lost Weve seen that happen with some groups but Kim is a wonderful violinist and owner of a great Strad. has a great passion for lay ing, for music. Meneses has had a career mostly in Europe.

Hes a prominent soloist He had a debut in Germany with Karajan and Muter in. the Brahms Double Concerto." Hes been active also in pick-up ensembles, says Pressler. He deserves a. Now Showing! qr July 10-16 illUULAN(G)00S My1.10$10'107:10fc10 THE X-FIES (PG-13) C0S 'MMSWaSMylB IHE TRUMAN SHOW (PG) A PERFECT HiRDffl(R) 'ftfittmiMrra GOQZIH (PG-13) tylMIS-HO-MII THEH0RSEiH5PERER(P6-ti9 MADEUNEDDS(PG MfrUWMW Coming Soon: aam Ihlng Atoaut Wry Jana Austin's MaOa wo uni in 275-8780 WlMVtlMW' Behind Arbys In Bsdfortf Office 275-1783 spa where a unified approach' can be found. I believe hes a musician who brings foe message erf the com-' poser to the Estener.

The new configuration had three warm-up concerts at Interiochen, on -the Cape and in the Berkshires (where the original Beaux Arts began) prior to an official debut last Monday at the Ravinia Festival in -north suburban Chicago. Pressler proudly quoted the critics, who were effusive. Now comes the second debut he says, the Bloomington debut the more difficult one before all my friends and students. Tonights program is a repeat of the one performed at Ravinia, the beautiful violin version of the Beethoven Opus 11 the Ravel A Minor, a masterpiece of the 20th century with its different sound, different feeling, its magical feeling and the big Tchaikovsky that gives each of us a wonderful stage setting. Pressler, an ageless wonder, looks bade and ahead.

Parts of the body get old, he tells me, but die heart stays young Love drives me. Being aide to make music in a very intense and beautiful way: Thats what I love. I always feel it is a privilege that I can make music, that people come to listen. "You're not terribly excited," ltell him in jest. He laughs.

I'm jealous of myself If I could jump out of my skin, I would. It's so wonderful to be able to reach out as we da Tonight. Menahem Pressler wiD reach out once again, along Young Uck Mm, the South Korean who has established a world-, encompassing career since his 1963 debut with Eugene Otmandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and along with Antonio Meneses, the Brazilian who won the Gold Medal at the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. and has forged ahead prominently with his professional career. The new Beaux Arts.

Tonight Soma words from Km Hno Arts Its always pleasant to sit down for a short while with members of die Fine Arts Quartet. Theyre charming jpntlemen to be with, always seem-' ingiy ready for a chat Of course, I try to abbreviate my visit, knowing theyre in the midst of a rehearsal as they were when we talked this past Monday in a studio of the Music Annex, one assigned for a summer period to violist Jerry Homer. How come the Mozart-Shostakovich I asked. Partially a process of elimination, -one a another of diem pointed out The group has done a Beethoven cycle for us. It has done Brahms, Mozart is my favorite, said first violinist Ralph Evans.

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