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I Arts and entertainment/The Daily Iowan Friday, September 26. 1980 -Iowa City. Iowa Immigration

Fine concert marred by mishaps Lawyer St.nley 4. Kroeger 478 Aq .. 11 Cour1 BId9 16Ih , IWwwd 51. Omlhl Hebfaskl 68102

" JuclHh Oreen AIIS/Enterlainment Editor i

The best-laid plans, etc. , especially if 9111! is a string player. Enter the Stradivari Quartet with a pleasant trogram for its usual large. friendly Clapp Hall audience Wednesday night f- only to be foiled by the unpredic-\lble temperament of strings. ' The program was lightweight,

and compact. beginning with a cheerful work by Luigi Boccherini 11743-1805). a prolific composer (some 100 string quartets among 500 works) ind one of the greatest cellists of his

Though decidedly a minor tran-

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I Footnotes I sitional figure of music hIstory, Bocchetini is nonetheless interesting, even noteworthy, for his formal in-novations and genuine melodic gift.

The most substantial movement of his quartet in A. for instance. is the finale : It opens, untypically, with a gigue, and its short slow movement ac-tually serves as an introduction to the minuet. But despite an unsettled begin-ning, the overall performance was pleasing.

THE D MAJOR quartet, K. 575, is exceptionally mild-mannered Mozart. studiously avoiding complexity. The unhurried charm of piece and inter-pretation complemented each other.

The culmination of the concert should have been the Ravel quartet in F, surely the loveliest thing he ever penned and one of the great essays in the literature. In the second move-ment, however. a cello peg slipped, and the group had to stop and retune. After that. other strings, moved by whatever devilment. started to go. The intona-tion as a result became a shambles, though the players tried manfully to

hold the work together. The audience Member 01 recalled them three times to show its Imm.grlhon and NII_ ''Y

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