Wednesday, December 4, 1974
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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By DAVID BURIIENN
The publicity brochure for the Juilliard String
Quartet announces that the group is "without
peer or near rival among the ranking string
quartets of the world."
A standing room audience at Rackham Aud,
last night would have little trouble in agreeing
with that assessment. The Juilliard, displayed
an awesome combination of superb musical
taste and exquisite ensemble in performances
of Mozart, Schoenberg, and Beethoven quartets.
The quartet was founded in the late 1940's but
the only member left from those early years is
first violinist Robert Mann. Second violinist
Earl Carlyss, violist Samuel Rhodes, and cellist
Joel Krosnick are all younger men.
The ,first work on last night's program was
the Mozart Quartet in D major, K. 499, also
known as the "Hoffmeister". The work is the
product of a mature composer, one which shows
a command of the medium and a willingness to
experiment with new musical ideas.
In its performance, the Juilliard displayed a
sophisticated aw=reness of the work's subtlety.
Mann's tone often seemed nervous and thin,
but it and the rest of the quartet warmed with
the music. The third movement, with its often
excruciating dissonances, was a jewel.
Arnold Schoenberg's Third Quartet, which
dates from 1926, did not receive overwhelming
audience support. The work is representative of
the height of Schoenberg's twelve-tone tech-
nique, and the resultant atonality put more than
a few of the concert-goers into a fitful sleep.
Those who napped missed the finest perform-
ance of the night. The Juilliard handled this
difficult quartet with almost unreal aplomb.
The quartet showed both an awareness of the
subtleties inherent in the work, and an aware-
ness of each other's parts in producing a su-
perb interpretation.
But for most of the audience, the real treat
of the evening came after intermission, with the
performance of the Quartet in C major, Op. 59
No. 3 by Beethoven.
The work contains one of the best galloping
finales in quartet literature. The Juilliard took
a lightening tempo, which for almost any other
quartet would have made a shambles ,of any
attempt to stay together.
But it was all in a night's work for these
professionals, who lifted the audience from
their seats as they ended the movement with a
breathtaking coda.
One result of the speed was a definite un-
eveness in tempi and an amount of scratch as
the musicians strained their technique to keep
up with the pace.
But all in all, it came off well, and a minuet
from the Mozart K. 590 quartet provided an en-
core ending to a night of superlative music.
Beer:
I JEAN RENOIR'S 1937
GRAND ILLUSION (at 7)
A story of classes and conduct in conflict durinq World War
j 1. Erich von Stroheim in a great performance as a Prussian
Aristocrat-General. With Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay.
THE GORKY TRILOGY 1938
My Apprenticeship-Out in the World
(at 9)
( Starting at age eight, Gorkv is shown trying to earn a
living washing dishes and performing othervmenial chores.
He secretly borrows books from the parents of friends.
Cinema Guild $1.50 for OLD ARCH.
both films AUD.
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Members of the quartet in concert last night at Rackham Auditorium. From left to right: Rob-
ert Mann, first violin, Earl Carlyss, second violin, xJoel Krosnick, cello, and Samuel Rhodes,
viola.
Swedish brew-h-ha?
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By MARK GOLDSMITH
S TO C K H O L M (Reuter)
- Swedish beer drinkers - who
have just witnessed a state
takeover of the nation's largest
C brewery - are wondering
what their favorite brew is go-
ing to taste like when the gov-
ernment gets through with it.
In a long awaited move the
state has bought up 60 per cent
of the share capital in Sweden's
biggest brewery, Pripps AB,
and has let it be known this is
only the beginning.
For years powerful temper-
ance groups have been pressur-
ing the government to crack
down on what they regard as
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-alcoholism.
And beer lovers now fear that
the state is going to take all
:h produc- the fun out of drinking by
s Rosine, launching a new and weaker
e shown. beer ironically called "People's
-- Beer" which no one except tee-
totallers seem to want.
At present there are three,
different classes of beer sold in
Sweden ranging from so called
"light beer" containing about
1.8 per cent alcohol to strong
with a 4.5 per cent.
But the target of temper-
ance groups and social reform-
ers here has centered on so-
called middle beer - 3.6 per
cent alcohol - and the beer
most Swedes drink (and can af-
ford).
A five-party commission ap-
pointed to study the alcohol
problem has unanimously come
out in favor of creating a new
People's Beer, which would be
watered down and they say a
safer version of middle beer,
containing about three per cent
alcohol.
But in a country where a pint
of domestic brew can cost as
much as 40 cents, many think
it is weak enough as it is.
Some argue that hard liquor
and not beer is thecrux of the
Swedish drinking problem.
When Swedish beer and wine
consumption is compared with
other countries one finds it is
well down on the list. But when
statistics on spirits consumption
alone is considered Sweden and
the United States share second
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tion of Rossini's "Barber of Seville." Reri Grist, a
and Clause-Kaakan Ahnsjo, as Graf Almaviva, ar
Cliburn to ddre
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place behind Poland as the
world's biggest drinkers.
During the past 10 years the
state through its nation-wide
wine and liquor monopoly
stores - has been going all out
to get Swedes off spirits and on
to wine.
Sweden, one of Europe's larg-
est wine importers, offers some
of the lowest prices in the world
for high quality wines. Some
experts even cl im you can buy
a better and cheaper bottle of
French burgundy in Stockholm
than you can in Paris.
Even today there is still a
strong social stigma attached
to drinking. Many Swedes, es-
pecially those of middle age,
seem to have a lingering guilt
about drinking instilled in them
d}?ring the fierce temparance
movement which raged here in
the early 20s.
It is quite common today to
see rows of Swedes lined up to
the counter of the state store
shifting nervously about with
heads bowed clutching their
leather valises in which they
secretly stash a purchase.
In recent years the monopolies
themselves have even got into
the act by plastering store walls
with posters warning Swedes
about the evils of drinking.
One color pamphlet put out by
the monopoly entitled The
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drinks" to steer clear of when
out on the town.
The majority of the small pri-
vate brewers in the country
have greeted the state's entry
into the beer business positive-
iv. They say that with the state , e'r . .Pho
now brewing beer, there will be Stanley Kubrick's
less competition than before andMtenle Kub tke
a more open market for their Ma terpiece of the
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But there is concern among
the private breweries that the
state may eventually force .
them to sell out. One of the f }
chief reasons given by Pripps;".".
for selling was that it was tired«'
of state pressure to sell weaker
beer and concerned about fu-
ture profitability.
Some newspapers have al-
ready predicted that it is only
a matter of time before Swedes
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EAST LANSING (UPI) -
Pianist Van Cliburn will deliver!
the fall commencement address1
Saturday to 1,025 students grad-}
uating from Michigan State Un-
iversity.
The undergraduate graduation
ceremonies are slated for 3 p.m.
in the MSU auditorium. Exer-
cises for 722 graduate students
receiving advanced degrees will
be held at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Cliburn, a graduate of Julli-
ard, gained worldwide recogni-
tion after winning the 1958 in-
ternational Tschaikovsky com-
petition in Moscow.
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Ann Arbor Civic Ballet
presents its
1974 Christmas Party
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Classified
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SUNDAY, Dec.
8-Power Center
Performances at: Children $1, Adults $2
2:30 p.m.
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