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By Abram Loft. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2002. [299 p. ISBN 1-57467-078-6. $24.95.] Music examples, illustrations, repertoire list, discography, index.
Tolstoy undoubtedly makes a universally true point at the start of Anna Karenina about all unhappy families being unhappy after their own fashion, claiming as well that all happy families are the same. String quartets are an odd collective, with nearly familial, as well as artistic, collegial, and business relationships, and one assumes that any successful quartet lasting more than a few years must be happy, to some degree at least. With a four-way mix of personalities, a day-to-day life which includes every mundane annoyance alongside the most profound artistic exchanges and discussions, the dynamic of each such group will vary, enough to make generalizations exceedingly difficult and perhaps gratuitous. As a quartet player of ten years myself, I thus approached Abram Loft's How to Succeed in an Ensemble: Reflections on a Life in Chamber Music with some suspicion. Although some of nay doubts still linger after reading the book,...
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