UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 15, Page 4
December 19, 1991
Up and coming

Institute for String Quartets to feature variety of events
     A number of noted musicians will serve as faculty for the
Department of Music's first Winter Institute for String Quartets,
scheduled Jan. 6-12.
     The week-long session features a variety of events, all open
to the public and many of them free, including performances by the
guest faculty-the Mendelssohn String Quartet, violinist Robert Mann
of the Juilliard String Quartet and violist Michael Tree of the
Guarneri String Quartet.
     The following events are scheduled in Loudis Recital Hall of
the Amy E. du Pont Music Building and are free unless otherwise
noted.
     On Wednesday, Jan. 8, the public is invited to attend an open
rehearsal of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and Tree from 1-3 p.m.
     At 8 p.m., Jan. 8, the Mendelssohn String Quartet will perform
as part of the University's Performing Arts Series. Tree will be
featured as guest artist. On the program are String Quartet Op. 130
(with Grosse Fuge) by Beethoven and Mendelssohn's String Quintet in
B. flat.
     Cost of the Jan. 8 recital is $15 for adults, $10 for
University faculty, staff and senior citizens, and $5 for students.
For tickets, call the Mitchell Hall box office at 451-2204.
     On Thursday, Jan. 9, observers are welcome at a master class
to be held by Tree from 9 a.m. to noon.
     On Friday, Jan. 10, a master class with Mann is scheduled from
2-5 p.m. and an open rehearsal with the Mendelssohn String Quartet
and Mann will be held from 7- 9 p.m.
     On Saturday, Jan. 11, at 8 p.m. the Mendelssohn Quartet and
Mann will present a recital as part of the University's Performing
Arts Series. The program will feature Schubert's Quartettsatz in c
minor, D. 703; String Quintet in A major by Mendelssohn and String
Quartet No. 2 by Ginastera.
     Cost is $15 for adults, $10 for University faculty, staff and
senior citizens and $5 for students. For tickets, call the Mitchell
Hall box office at 451-2204.
     The Winter Institute for String Quartets concludes on Sunday,
Jan. 12, with a string quartet recital featuring institute
participants. The free public recital begins at 2 p.m.
     The institute is designed to offer students considering a
career in chamber music an opportunity for intensive study with the
Mendelssohn String Quartet, Mann and Tree.
     Activities include daily private instruction and ensemble
coaching with members of the Mendelssohn String Quartet; master
classes with Mann and Tree; an opportunity to observe open
rehearsals of the Mendelssohn Quartet; private rehearsal time for
each quartet culminating in a public performance; roundtable
discussions about all aspects of quartet life; and the public
events.
     Tree began playing the violin at age 5. He was a scholarship
student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. His 1954
debut at Carnegie Hall at age 20 was praised as "probably the most
brilliant young debut in the recent past."
     Over the years he has appeared as violin and viola soloist
with the Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Mostly Mozart and
other major orchestras. He also has participated in major festivals
including Marlboro, Casals, Spoleto and Israel.
     Mann, a founder and one of the original members of the
Juilliard String Quartet, began the study of the violin with local
teachers at the age of 9. In 1941, he won the Walter W. Naumburg
Foundation Competition and made his New York recital debut two days
after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
     In 1946 at the invitation of William Schuman, then president
of Juilliard, he formed the Juilliard String Quartet with violinist
Robert Koff and cellist Arthur Winograd, who had been his Army
buddies, and violist Raphael Hillyer.
     Recently proclaimed by Newsweek as "the yardstick against
which all other groups are measured," the remarkable ensemble now
has four decades of world-concertizing behind it and is today the
longest in existence of any of the the major string quartets on the
world scene. It has a record of more performances in more cities of
more countries and a larger discography than any other quartet now
before the public.
     Mann's son Nicholas, a gifted violinist and violist, often
plays duo-recitals with his father and is a founding member of the
Mendelssohn String Quartet, which has been in residence at the
University during 1991.

Registration now for Saturday math class
     Registration is now under way for the next session of Saturday
Morning Math, offered by the Mathematical Sciences Teaching and
Learning Center.
     The session begins Jan. 11 and continues for six consecutive
Saturdays on the Newark campus. Three sections are offered each
day.
     Cost of the program is $35 and enrollment is limited.
     For information, call 451-2140.

Multimedia series to begin in January
     Techniques for using high technology to create presentations,
to enhance lectures and to develop promotional and training
materials will be examined in a series of seminars during January
at the University.
     For information on dates, topics and cost of the seminars,
being offered by the Instructional Technology Center, call
451-8162.