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Show -p... . .'.'" , 1 WILL PERFORM HERE The famed Juillard String Quartet Quar-tet will play at Granite Arts on Januaryl7. Famed String Quartet Performs Jan. 17 at Granite Arts Concert The Juilliard string quartet will perform at the Granite High auditorium Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 8:15 p.m., under the auspices of the Granite Arts Association. It was founded under the sponsorship .of the Juilliard Musical Mu-sical Foundation, to serve as a quartet-in-residence at the Jul-liard Jul-liard School of Music in New York. It was envisaged that the quartet would fulfill two functions: firstly, to transmit the art of chamber music playing play-ing to members of future quartets quar-tets through teaching; and, secondly, sec-ondly, to foster the performance perform-ance of fine music both old and new through public performances. per-formances. Fine Performers The quartet is composed of artists who have distinguished themselves as solo performers. They are: Robert Mann, native of Portland, Port-land, Ore , graduate of the Juilliard Juil-liard School in 1943 and winner of the Naumberg Award for 1941; Robert Koff, native of Los Angeles, An-geles, Calif., graduate of Ober-lin Ober-lin College and participant in many chamber music and concert con-cert tours; Raphael Hillyer, native of Ithaca, N. Y., graduate of Dartmouth Dart-mouth College, the Curtis Institute Insti-tute and Harvard University, and a former member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who joined the Juilliard quartet quar-tet with the assent of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky; Arthur Winograd, native of New York City, graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, the Curtis Institute In-stitute in Philadelphia, and a former member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. These young musicians have, in their relatively short career as a quartet, distinguished themselves them-selves in the field of chamber music, arousing the enthusiasm not only of critics, but of the nation's leading composers. |