|
|
Article: STRING QUARTET PLAYER CONFIDENT OF FUTURE; THE GUARNERI STRING QUARTET FOUNDER THINKS YOUNG PEOPLE APPRECIATE HIS MUSIC.(Weekend)
- Article from:
- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Frank Herron Staff writer
The Guarneri String Quartet isn't as old as the organization that has invited it to come back to Syracuse for a concert on Saturday evening. But it's close. The Guarneri was founded 40 years ago, 15 years after the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music got going.
The overlapping history is not lost on Michael Tree, who plays a 254-year-old viola.
Tree speaks glowingly of the founder of the local chamber group, Louis Krasner, who was also the first concertmaster of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Krasner was "kind of a one-man force in the world of string music," says Tree, who is 70.
Tree, who has played ...