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♦ ♦IPLAYERS ARRIVE.The players of the Marianne Kneisel String Quartet arrived in Los Angeles Saturday from the east, Mrs. Coolidge, known for her discrimination musically and as a noted patron of string quartets, presented the first California concert given by this quartet last night in the recital hall of the Los Angeles Public Library. Severalof the largest clubs are to feature thisconcert on their programs and such schools as the University of Southern California, Redlands University, Bakersfield lligh School, and other institutions of like prominence have scheduled them. More than 40 schoolsand colleges in the United States presented them last year.Among thtose who attended their concert last evening were Mr. and Mrs. Jay Fetters of Oxnard. Mrs. Fetters is president of the Oxnard Monday Club and instrumental in bookingthe quartet for a concert in Oxnard, under the auspices of the Oxnard Monday Club on the night of February Id.Previous to the concert Mr. and Mrs, Fetters were dinner guests of Miss Ramona Little, representative of the National Music League of New York City, which sponsors the quartet’s tours.In Los Angeles the works played by the quartet were the Quartet, A Minor, Op. 29, by Schubert; Quartet, (1 Minor, Op. 10 by Debussy, and Quartet in FI Minor by Smetana, the latter a piece of great technical difficulty. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fetters were charmed with the quartet’s playing as vwll as with tin* personality of the players. The Debussy number, which particularly struck tlie chord of acclaim. was true to the best traditionsof chamber music. Mrs. F’etters said, and may be included in the program to be given here it it does not prove otherwise complete. The ensemble work of the quartet is very finished 'and their tone harmony beautiful. Mrs. Fetters feels sure that thesei’four players will please any audience that likes music, and that their profgram, wiiile satisfying the most critical, will not he of that “highbrow’” Jquality that the lover of simpler music sometimes wishes to avoid, inother words, we’ll ail like it.
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Oxnard Daily Courier
Oxnard, California, US
Tue, Feb 07, 1928
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