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Music
Haggin, B. H. | October 6, 1956 issue

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This article presents information on performer Elliott Carter's String Quartet, which the Walden Quartet plays on Columbia ML-5 104. The author is able to appreciate the impressiveness of Carter's enormously complex object, but not what he wanted to communicate by means of it, object, enjoyable or interesting to listen to. The difficult work is played superbly; and Columbia should also record the Budapest Quartet's performances in whatever way produced the excellent sound of this one by the Walden Quartet. John Verrall's Prelude and Allegro for strings, on MGM E-3371, is interesting in the way it transforms older materials with modern dissonance.

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STRING quartets; MUSICIANS; VERRALL, John; CARTER, Elliott, 1908-; DISSONANCE (Music); PSYCHOACOUSTICS
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