Articles 2 The Cleveland Quartet: A Workday in Five Movements A behind-the-scen es look at the Eas tma n Sc hool's cha mber ensemble 11 Escalating the Admission Effort The Rl'view speaks w it h Timothy Scho ll, Roch este r's new dea n of ad missions a nd stude n t aid 18 Great Expectations: Three Freshmen Profiles of three me m be rs of this yea r's ente ring class 20 Ron Thomas: A Report from the Big Ten The tr ansition to big-city sports journalism 22 The Stro use Collection A th ree-time T on y w in ne r reflects on his caree r 26 Biomedical Engineering Offers Blueprints for Health Building a better ultrasou nd ge ne ra tor, and o ther cha llenges t 1 28 Identity Crisis 34 Alumnotes 1 30 News Digest 41 Review Point 1 33 Alumnitems (ova illu trat/on by Stft't RtY'lOlds h t r i inte r, 19 7 7; Ed itor: Ronald C . Rob rt s: Assistant Edi to rs: Raymond A. Ma rt ino, Sue Brick er; Copy Editor: r n Pitt ; rt Direct or: Jeffrey T. H e rma n n; 5 aff Ph otographer: hri s T. Q u ille n; Edi toria l Assis ta n t : Ben C ray; lumnot Editor: ary Lyn ch . Published quarterly by the U nive rs ity of Ro hester and m ailed to a ll alumni. Editorial of- fi ,107 dmini tr ation Bldg., Roch es ter,.Y. 14627. Second- class pos tage pai d a t Roch est er, N .Y. 14603. To the editor: To the editor: In the Fall 1977 issue, your article on "Genesee Country Living" with a descrip­ tion of the Genesee Country Village was comp lete except for one important detail - no address! Will you kindly send me the address so I can pla n a trip there ? Mrs. Dorothy M . Cox '31 Lakewood, N.J. (Ti,e Museum is in Mumford, N .Y., south­ Ulest of Rochester. For more infor/natiOt/ , write: TIre GrneSff Country Village, P.O. Box 1819. Rochester, N.Y. 14603.1 To th e ed itor: I have look ed over th e Fall 1977 Roches ter Review and find it quite up t o yo u r usual Et hel Klein Snapper '38 high sta nda rds o f pu blica tio n, even includ­ Hanover, .H. ing th e mat erial o n pages 9-11. Pe rhaps so me o f yo u r read ers will be int erest ed in th e fun th at we are having wit h th e "rigo rs" o f aca de mia. O f add itional and particular interest to me was yo u r a rt icle o n Paul Bit good . I kn ew Paul (a nd Da ve Ocorr) w hile a s t u­ dent a t Roch ester (I dabbled in tennis and February March swam on th e va rs ity team for "S peed" Speegle). It so u nds like Paul is leading a n 2-3 In Rochester - Trust ees' 4 In Boston- I e lub oncert idyllic ex iste nce, a nd I a pplaud hi s effo rts Co unc il and Un iversity Alum­ at the Prudential Cent r a t both pr oducin g w ine and appre cia t ing ni Cou ncil meetings 4- 18 Alumni Tour-Los Angeles, it . 4 In Albany-Bask etball team San Juan, Cabo San Lucas, This issu e o f Rochester Revieu: is o ne mo re in yo u r lon g se ries o f excelle n t publica­ vs. RPI ; pr egam e Rou ser for Acapulco, Curacao, ara as tion s. Many th anks for including th e ma ­ Alumni 8 In A lbany- lee C lub Con- terial w hich we br ou ght to yo u r atten tio n cert in th api tol Rotunda; fr om th e [ourna! of Irreproduciblt' Results. reception for alumni at noon I w ill be interest ed if any (or how many) readers identify th e blatant e rro r in th e In Syracuse-Glee C lub dat e o f th e Mexican -American War. Concert (location to b e. M. Achilles '57 announced) Kn oxville, T enn. (The article lists the da!« of the M erica/I ­ American War as 186 7. T ire correct date is 1846.- £d.1 Two alumni tours are scheduled Switzerland (Thun and Zurich)­ for 1978. A fall tour also is bein g May 12-20 planned. Includes hotel acco m modations, Trans-Panama Canal Cruise­ breakfasts, an d local tours o f each city. Optional tours available. March 4-18 Los Angeles to San Juan, with Breathtaking sce nery ; easy a cessi­ stops in Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, bility to major Alpine areas; u n ­ Curacao. and Caracas. Price in­ regimented. $469 plu s 15 percent cludes air fare (scheduled flights) from Rochester. from and returning to 127 major Alumni, University personnel, fam­ cities, including Hawaii and Alaska. ilies, and fri ends are welcome on all Available to all alumni, regardless tours. Reservation forms for the Trans­ of location. Central American and Panama Canal Cruise are available Caribbean geography and current from the Alumni Office; mailers and affairs come alive. Stopovers in forms for Switzerland, in early 1978. Los Angeles and San Juan permit­ For further information, contact John ted. From $1,420. Braund, Alumni Office, 315 Frederick Douglass Bldg., University of Roch­ ester, Rochester, N.Y. 14627. Phone: (716) 275-3682. 1 hofos b Donll l Holway lusciou s scale. He hardly paused to Half an hour before the concert gUp tu ne th e string s; he had been practic­ they break up. Paul works with his ing all afternoon. cello in a dark corner backstage, fac­ "It's better to be nervous before ing the wa ll. Don practices in a wait­ than during," he murmurs, smiling ing room, the score propped on the abs trac te dly. back of a so fa. Peter disappea rs. Mar­ Th ey wo r together abou t 20 min­ tha slips in to a dressin g room an d utes, jumping almo st without com­ closes her eyes for 20 minutes of me n fro m o n e piece to another. The T ransce ndenta l Meditation . They prog ram is pa rt of th eir ongoing Bee­ have all taken up T M, also jogging. th oven cycle: Opus 18, No. 74, "The They find T M re laxes th eir h ands for Harp," and Opus 131, an electrifying a conce rt. rna ter piece of Beethoven's final y a rs. Don (stops in mid- no te): "[eez." Peter: "Yeah, I'm jus t tr ying to get it bro der. Pick a spot. ." Don : "Seems ve ry untuneful. Is it my fault? .." Paul (to Peter): "You're playing a lit Ie loud ." Pe er :"Su re. Same place?" on Rehearsing "You don't try to make the concert be just like the last re hearsal," says Donald Weilerstein. "It's something more. Rehearsing gives you the security to do something different in the actual concert." Don and Martha Katz, med itating moments before a Cleve land Quartet concert, are as separate as th ey can be. Q uartet members see m to fasci­ nate people, who watch the m avid ly for signs of a rift, and th e Cleveland­ ers are a littl e def ensive on thi s point, especially since Martha the violist and Paul Kat z the cellist are married to each other. "There's all this thing about th e Budapest Quartet not knowing each other," comments Paul. "But it's pret­ ty relative. When you rehearse to­ gether eight, nine hours a day and do 100 concerts a year, and when you all live in Rochester as we do, and teach at the Eastman School of Mu­ sic, and when you add in the business meetings and recording sessions and receptions and all, well, when you come down to breakfast in the hotel coffee shop, maybe you'd rather sit by yourself and read the paper. We'll get on a plane together and sit down separately and not see one another till we land. That doesn't mean we're Pulling out the violin with deft abandon, he played one not getting along." luscious scale, hardly pausing to tune the strings ... 5 Even when they're just talking, they watch each other. nine hours at a crack: one movement of one quartet played over and over for maybe three hours. From the beginning there was a sense of excitement and personal ful­ fillment. The very first thing they played together was a Haydn quartet, and the sound of it thrilled them all. Paul: "A member of a famous quar­ tet came up to us after Marlboro and said we were going to be great. I was shoc ked. I said it'd be fine to be okay. But he said, no, you' re going to be grea t. I was quite taken aback." Watching Wat ching. Even wh en th ey're just talking, th ey watch each other. "You can feel a moment very strongly, but someone else in the group can feel it differently. There's always more than one beautiful way to play music. So you've got to be flexibl e ..." Playing with a quartet, you 're jug­ gling so many things.