Elizabethah Quartet

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31349, 20 April 1967, Page 7

Elizabethah Quartet

This week’s University lunch-hour recital will be presented at 1.10 p.m. today in the University Hall by the Elizabethan Quartet. The programme will start with the Debussy quartet, a colourful early work of the composer published in 1893 and much influenced by the “impressionist” movement which had developed from the literature and visual art of the period. Debussy displays his interest in oriental musical Instruments In the Scherzo of this quartet, and by using the cyclic form inherited from Cesar Franck, Debussy has created a full-scale composi-

tion based on the transformations of a single theme. The single movement, Quartettsatz by Schubert completes the programme. The Elizabethan Quartet is a group of string players from the orchestra of the visiting Australian Ballet Two of these musicians will be remembered by those who patronised university recitals in the 19405. They are Gladys Vincent, violin, and Francis Bate, cello, former Christchurch residents who took a most active part, both as teachers and performers, in the musical life of the dty. Mr and Mrs Bate now live in Melbourne.