Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 19, 1990 TAG: 9004190003
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The concert is a presentation of the Roanoke Valley Chamber Music Society, which last brought the Fine Arts Quartet to the valley for a well-received concert in 1988.
On Monday's program are Shostakovich's Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 49; Borodin's Quartet No. 2 in D Major; and Mendelssohn's Quartet in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $3 for students 18 and younger. They can be bought at the door or reserved by calling the Olin Hall box office at 375-2333.
The Fine Arts Quartet was founded in Chicago in 1946 and has since been recording and touring, both in the U.S. and abroad, virtually without interruption. The group's original members have been succeeded upon retirement by a complete second generation of players.
The present membership consists of violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violist Jerry Horner and cellist Wolfgang Laufer.
Members of the quartet are professors and artists-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where the quartet does an annual performance series in addition to its other concert and recording commitments.
Monday's concert will be previewed by John Hitchings, professor of music at Radford University. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Room 325 of Olin Hall.
by CNB