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November 19, 1999>/P> Takacs Quartet plays at Purdue on Dec. 7WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Famed string ensemble the Takacs Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7, at Loeb Playhouse in Stewart Center on the Purdue University campus. Presented by Purdue Convocations as a part of the Loeb Music Collection, the Takacs Quartet is sponsored in part by the Friends of Convocations, the donor organization that supports Convocations programming and special initiatives. Comprised of violinists Edward Dusinberre and Karoly Schranz, violist Roger Tapping and cellist Andras Fejer, the Takacs Quartet will play Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 74 in E-flat major, known as "The Harp," as well as the composer's String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132. Dvorak's String Quartet in E flat major, Opus 51, No. 10, will round out the program. Recognized as one of the world's leading string quartets, the Takacs Quartet was formed by Hungarians Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Gabor Ormai, Schranz and Fejer in 1975, while all four were students at Budapest's Liszt Academy. It first received international attention in 1977, winning First Prize and the Critics' Prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. After winning multiple notable competitions in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the quartet experienced a change in personnel, leaving two of the original Hungarians and adding two British musicians. The Takacs Quartet has appeared regularly in every major music capital and prestigious festival. Designated Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1983, its members were given permanent faculty appointments there in 1986. The quartet also teaches and performs as Quartet-in-Residence at the Barbican Center and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In early 1998, London/Decca Records released the Takacs Quartet's recording of the Bartok cycle, which the group performed in May 1998 at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Bartok recording has received unanimously stellar reviews worldwide, and in October 1998 it received the Gramophone "Chamber Music Recording of the Year" Award. During the 1999-2000 season, the Takacs Quartet will perform more than 50 concerts in the United States, tour extensively in Europe, and return to Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South America. The quartet also will make two new recordings for London Records: a disc of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Wolf's Italian Serenade in the fall, and Beethoven's Opus 59, Nos. 2 and 3, in the summer as the first installment of a complete Beethoven recording cycle. Tickets to the Dec. 7 concert are $18 for the public and $13 for Purdue students. Discounts are available to groups of 15 or more. Charge by phone at (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW. CONTACT: Sue Stevens, Convocations publicist, (765) 494-5045, snsteven@purdue.edu
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