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Lflpuston Friends of .Sic IJ.Epherd Lchool of Qlusic TWENTY -NINTH SEASON FIFTH CONCERT lflpuston Friends of .sic and IJ.epherd lchool of Qlusic Rice University • P. 0. Box 1892 • Houston, Texas 77251 PRESENT THE Percy Kalt - violin Barbara Williams - violin David Dalton - viola Gayle Smith - cello WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989 .,.... Hamman Hall 8:00P.M. Rice University • PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, January 18, 1989 Quartet in A minor, D. 804 ••...•....••..•..••..• FRANZ SCHUBERT Allegro ma non troppo (1797-1818) Andante Menuetto. Allegretto Allegro moderato Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata" ••••..•••.••..••... LEOS JANACEK Con moto (1854-1928) Con moto-meno mosso Con moto-vivace-adagio Con moto-adagio-piu mosso INTERMISSION Quartet No. 2, Op. 92 •••.•..••......••....•... SERGEY PROKOFIEV Allegro sostenuto (1891-1953) Adagio Allegro The Quartet in A Minor was last heard January 7, 1986 by The Emerson Quartet. The Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata" was last heard March 20, 1986 by The Tokyo Quartet. The Quartet No. 2, Op. 92 was last heard January 14, 1977 by The Cleveland Quartet. The Deseret String Quartet is represented by Pietro Menci International Artists. 8 Houston Friends of Music express gratitude for the support of Channel 8 HOUSTON PUBLIC YELEVISION Photographing and sound recording are prohibited. We further request that audible paging devices not be used during performances. Paging arrangements may be made with ushers. If it is anticipated that tickets will not be used, subscribers are encouraged to turn them in for resale. This is a tax-deductible donation. Call 527-4933. 2 HOUSTON FRIENDS OF MUSIC is a non-profit organization dedicated to the presentation of chamber ensembles with national and international reputations and to the development of new audiences. BENEFACTORS Dr. Edith F. Bondi Cultural Arts Council of Houston Barbara M. Osborne Caduceus Foundation, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Grady L. Hallman Dr. Meyer L. Proler Dennis & Susan Carlyle National Endowment for the Arts Seymour & Shirley Wexler PATRONS Renno J. Bauer, Jr. Nora Klein, M.D. H. Irving Schweppe, Jr., M.D. Lutz & Marie! Blmbaumer Marcella & Tomas Klima Mr. & Mrs. A. 0. Susholtz Mr. & Mrs. Emory T. Carl Dr. & Mrs. J.P. Lauzon Steven J. Tilllnger Dr. & Mrs. D. A. Freedman W. H. Mannheimer Margaret Walsman & Steven Callahan Alex & Ann Goldstein Jack & Julia Mazow Drs. A. & J. Werch Barbara Kauffman David Parsons SPONSORS Vlasta & Ervin Adam Harlan Hall Mr. & Mrs. Nathan M. Pryzant James & Carolyn Alexander Drs. Fred & Eva Haufrect Elizabeth G. Reynolds Barbara & Jim Butler H. Blandin Jones & Nancy Boothe Richard & Eva Rosencranz Drs. Chester & Jamie Cochran JohnS. W. Kellett Mary S. Schoettle Kent & Jan Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Wendel D. Ley Malcolm & Horty Sher Dr. & Mrs. Joel Cyprus Mrs. Helen Mintz Robert & Natalie Thrall Fred Y. Durrance Daniel & Karol Musher C. J. Velzeboer Ann Fairbanks Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Newman Irving & Ida Wadler Dr. Judith Felgon & Nathan Goldman Stephanie L. Normann Robert & Edith Zimm John & Marilyn Flynn Mario & Ruth Papia Lila-Gene George CONTRIBUTORS Ralph A. Anderson Lloyd E. Elliott, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Walter R. Kaye Francisco Avlles-Rolg, M.D. Milton & Dixie Feiner William P. Landfield, Jr. Stephen & Paula Baker H. L. Frissell M. A. Modelskl, M. D. J.H.U. Brown J. S. Fulton \ Joseph Paderewski Mr. & Mn. Albert Caselli Arthur Glnzbarg Marilyn Pollack Lawrence & Allee Cowles Beverly I. Hawkins Ann & Hermann Rath Carter D. Crawford Robert D. Hawthorn David & Jeanne Saletan Doris M. Curtis Robert W. Hill Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Tsuchida John W. ·Eagleton Mrs. Johannah Hoffman Dr. & Mrs. Stanley Weitzner BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ervin Adam Harvey L. Gordon Daniel Musner James Alexander Michael Hammond Roberta W. Newman Francisco Aviles Constance Holford David G. Parsons Ira J. Black Barbara Kauffman Mary Schoettle Kent Coleman Tomas Klima Steven J. Tillinger Carter Crawford Daniel Krohn Marsha Tsuchida Elmer Eisner Thomas Littman Irving Wadler Ann Fairbanks George Mannheimer Margaret W aisman ArthurS. Ginzbarg Jack B. Mazow Seymour Wexler FRIEND OF MUSIC OFFICERS President. .......................................................... Jack B. Mazow Vice Presidents .............. Ann Fairbanks, Marsha Tsuchida, Elmer Eisner, Daniel Krohn Secretary ........................................................... Francisco Aviles Treasurer ........................................................ Steven J. Tillinger Donations made in the memory of Mozelle Edelstein Schiff Mr. & Mrs. A. 0. Susholtz • Shirley and David Toomim • Mrs. Nettie Robinowitz 3 The Deseret String Quartet The Deseret Quartet was organized in 1966 by the violinists Barbara Williams and Percy Kalt who are still with the group. David Dalton, Violist, and Julie Zumsteg, cellist, joined the quartet in 1970 and 1982 respectively. Henri Temianka substituted for Percy Kalt from 1972-75 while the latter was on leave of absence. Gayle Smith, cello replaced Julie Zumsted. The name, Deseret, adopted in in 1972 was taken from the ancient Book of Mormon language and means honeybee. By virtue of its freshness of approach, fine ensemble play­ ing, excellent technique and musicianship, the Deseret Quartet has been receiving the enthusiastic support of both critics and audience. Champions of the new and the old, they are as com­ fortable with avant-garde composers as they are with Webern, Bartok, Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart. PERCY KAL T, violin, holds the Doctor of Musical arts degree from the University of Michigan where he was a member of the faculty and the Stanley Quartet. He was also visiting professor at the Interlochen Arts Academy. At present he occupies the position of major professor of violin at Brigham Young University. BARBARA WILLIAMS, violin, studied at the Eastman School of Music under Joseph Knitzer, where she was given the Performer's Award. Further study was undertaken with Naoum Blinder in San Francisco. Mrs. Williams has performed as soloist with the San Antonio Symphony, the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, and the Spokane Philharmonic. DAVID DALTON, viola, received music degrees from the Eastman ,_ School of Music and was recipient of the Performer's Award. He perform­ ed in Europe and studied at the conservatories in Vienna and Munich. His doctorate was earned at Indiana University under William Primrose with whom he collaborated in the writing of the Primrose memoires. GAYLE SMITH, cello, began her career in Russia after her triumph as the only American woman finalist at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1970. For ten years she lived in London while concertizing on four continents, making live radio broadcasts and recordings. She has taught at the University of Utah and is presently on the faculty at Brigham Young University. The Deseret Quartet is in residence at Brigham Young University. 4 PROGRAM NOTES Quartet in A minor, D·, 804 •...••..•..........••.••. ·· .. Franz Schubert The Schubert string quartet in A minor, written early in 1824, was perform­ ed in March of that year and published in 1825 as Opus 29 - the only one of Schubert's fifteen quartets to appear in print during his lifetime. The A minor is a gentle and modest work throughout; an ocCasional mild outburst in the first movement is quickly subdued and serves only to outline the prevailing melancholic serenity more clearly. The beautiful slow movement, employing a fragment of SchuberCs own "Rosamunde,, music, is at once lyric and resigned; it is as perfect in its way as any work of Mozart's, without the intensity that characterizes so many of that master's andantes. The minuet is restrained; its charm lies largely in its rich modulations and its deceptively simple phrase structure. The finale is in regular sonata form, with a development section that approaches Classical perfection; in spite of its brilliant key of A Major and its third theme in E, it is a delicate move­ m.ent. The minor keys and subdued colors of the earlier movements are here beautifully transformed into brighter shades, but wistfuln.ess and restraint are maintained to the very end. The quartet as a whole ranks as one of Schubert's finest achievements. Notes by Homer Ulrich Quartet No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata" .••••••••••.•.••...•••• Leos Janatek Janacek's String Quartet No. 1 (The "Kreutzer Sonata" Quartet) was originally dedicated to the Bohemian Quartet. This work was written in the autumn of 1923, in the heart of Janacek's most productive periods. In it, Janacek perhaps made use of a Piano Trio, which is now lost. Tolstoy had used the strange effect produced by the playing of Beethoven's famous Violin Sonata No. 9, dedicated to Rodolphe Kreutzer, as the key to the matrimonial tragedy of the tyranically jealous Pozdnyshev. Janacek was intrigued by Tolstoy's th~rizing about the effect of music on the feelings and actions of Man. His Quartet, which divides into four­ movements but whose formal conceptio_n is quite free, is a musical poem of the love relationship between man an'd woman. Tormenting passions, dominated by terrible fits of jealousy, disrupt the personal relations, en­ tangle the lovers in bitter quarrels, humiliate the woman and make her life miserable. But, in Janacek's conclusion, Tolstoy's murderous dagger is replaced by· a glorification of true love, unfathomable in all its tender mystery. s Quartet No. 2, op. 92 ............................... Sergey Prokofiev The Prokofiev Quartet No.2 in F Major, op. 92, was written in 1942 during the composer's sojourn in the Caucasus, where he first encountered the in­ fluence of Kabarda and Balkara folk-music. In his treatment of these folk­ melodies,
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