Arts Entertainment ROYAL OAK theArrze 318 West Fourth Street • 248-544-7949 THE GOLD STANDARD 1 7- from page 75 are on the Juilliard school faculty, as well as teaching, coaching and per- forming at other schools and festivals. Each is American born — Rhodes and Smirnoff are from New York, Krosnick from Connecticut and vio- linist Ronald Copes from Arkansas. Copes, who joined the Juilliard as second violinist in 1997, also has a local connection. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and the University of Michigan, his teach- ers included Paul Makanowitsky at the U-M. A frequent solo recitalist across Europe and the United States, Copes enjoyed long tenures with the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet and Los Angeles Piano Quartet before joining the Juilliard. c// / 2zvt •tt Longtime Members n Sal; Nowt Tickets available at ticketmaster outlets including Marshall-Fields and Harmony House, online at www.nipp.com or www.ticketmaster.com , or by calling 248-645-6666 ticketmaster HE. 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"He had lots of musical scores in his house, and I used to look at them and 'hear' the music," he said. - As a young adult, Rhodes studied composition with Roger Sessions and Earl Kim at Queens College and Princeton University. In addition to his work with the Juilliard Quartet, he performs as a recital soloist and as featured soloist with orchestras and chamber groups around the globe, and has given pre- mieres of works for unaccompanied viola by composers Milton Babbitt and Arthur Weisberg. Joel Smirnoff studied at the University of Chicago and at Juilliard before joining-the Boston Symphony in 1980. He joined the Juilliard String Quartet as second violinist in 1986, and assumed first chair in -1997 upon the retirement of founding member Robert Mann. He has pre- miered numerous contemporary works, some written expressly for him. Like Smirnoff and other members of the Juilliard, which rescued the quartets of Arnold Schoenberg from obscurity and has championed the works of 20th-century American composers like Elliott Carter, cellist Joel Krosnick enjoys the mix of old and new. "The spirit of modernism echoes in the older music. It also enlivens our performance," Krosnick has said. "By interpreting contempo- rary music one doesn't stiffen in a routine of interpretation, but one always reads the works anew." A committed educator who also serves on the faculty of Tanglewood, Krosnick is an active solo performer and often gives cello sonata recitals with pianist Gilbert Kalish. In a string quartet, Rhodes explained, the personalities and skills of each member meld into one per- sonality, that of the quartet as a whole. "When we perform, we're trying to relive the music on the stage as if it's being reborn at that moment," he said. "When we come close to that goal, it's something really special." In his 1996 Salon article, Festa said the Juilliard String Quartet was the closest to perfection of any such ensemble. "The Juilliard did for the string quartet what Callas did for opera and what Bernstein did for conducting," he wrote, "which was not only to set a.standard of excellence, but to define the contours of the art form in terms of repertoire and style." ❑ The Juilliard String Quartet per- forms 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at Seligman Performing Arts Center, located on the campus of Country Day School in Beverly Hills. $22- $67. (248) 855-6070. Tickets at the door subject to availability. Other concerts this season include Yefin Bronfman/Gil - Shaham/Truls Mork (Oct. 19); Carter Brey and Christopher O'Riley (Nov. 16); Kalichstein- Laredo-Robinson Trio with Cynthia Phelps (Dec. 14); Guarneni String Quartet (Feb. 15, 2003); Tokyo String Quartet with Jon Kimura Parker (March 8; 2003); Krystian Zimerman (April 12); Miami String Quartet with Pepe Romero (May 17). 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