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Show World-Famed Quartet Next in Granite Series compartments on transcontinental transcontin-ental trains, and sometimes ev.":n ask us to play their favorite movements. Afterwards it is amusing to see them piling up luggage, cheerfully whistling themes from Mozart, Brahms or Beethoven." The Lener quartet, world fam- ous string ensemble, will be presented the night of Wednesday, Wednes-day, -Nov, 28, at - 8:15 p.m. at Granite high auditorium as the third of this seasons outstanding outstand-ing concert offerings by the Granite Arts association. This appearance follows the presentation tonight (Friday) of Erica Morini, violinist. Dr. Leslie D. Burbidge, business manager of the. association announces an-nounces that there are still a few season memberships available avail-able for the concert series, which may be bought at Glen Brothers Broth-ers store in Salt Lake, at the box office on concert nights, or from himself at his offices in the Medical Arts buildings. At next week's concert the Lener group will play three of the most famous compositions in the entire library of chamber cham-ber music, Tchaikovski's Quartet Quar-tet in D major, Opus 11; Beethoven's Beeth-oven's Quartet, Opus 18 No. 4, and the beloved American Quar- , tet." (quartet in F major) by Dvorak. , . Jeno Lener, leader - of the famous group, observes that appreciation ap-preciation of chamber muVi-c is not restricted to "highl.ir.iws." and relates the follow'n inci: dent in support of his theoiy.: "Hotel waiters urd i airway porters have.often sm priced rce by discussing Uee.-.noven and Mozart as enthusiastically as you would expect them to talk about dog-racing an.i dance bands. "I remember one wet Sunday Sun-day afternoon having to wai. for a train in a town in the midlands. A porter came up to me, inquired if I was Mr. Lener and when I said yes, answered 'I've always wanted to meet you. ! Don't you think you pHy the I last movement of Beethoven's C Major, Opus 59 Quartet a shade too fast?' "We spent nearly haTf an hour discussing this and other musical points and when the train came in I still had not convinced him that my way was I right! , "Porters often ask to listen to us when we rehearse in our |