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Courtesy of Melvin Kaplan Inc. The School of Music is hosting various performances during the Festival of the Millennium, including the Ysaye Quartet, made up of (clockwise from left) viola player Miguel da Silva, violinist Luc-Marie Aguera, violinist Guillaume Sutre and cellist Francois Salque. Quartet to treat Eugene ■The Ysaye Quartet will deliver a French chamber music performance Tuesday By Mason West Oregon Daily Emerald The University’s School of Mu sic is bringing a piece of French culture to campus through classi cal music. The Ysaye Quartet, an interna tionally famous chamber music group of two violins, a viola and a cello, is coming to the University Chamber Music Series on Tuesday. Since it was founded in 1984, the group has played all over the world, but this will be their first appearance in Oregon. The Chamber Music Series hosts six performances a year strictly in the genre of chamber music. Chamber music is a small group of musicians (three to eight on aver age) who play together. Other spe cial features of chamber music are that generally each instrument plays a different part, and the group plays without a conductor. To an inexperienced listener, this may not sound like anything special, but Janet Stewart, assistant dean of the music school, said the listeners must understand the meaning of the performance to en joy it. “There has to be a feeling be tween the performers,” Stewart said. “Because there is no conduc tor imposing the dynamics of the music, it has to be worked out by the musicians. It’s the classical equivalent of a jazz jam.” To help audiences understand the performance better, there will be a musical insight lecture given by Robert Hurwitz, professor of music theory, an hour before the concert. Hurwitz, however, is not fond of the title “lecture.” “To me, it’s more like a tour guide,” he said. “If you just go to the concert without knowing the music, you won’t always know how to get through it.” In preparation for these presen tations, Hurwitz researches any composers that he doesn’t already have knowledge about and listens repeatedly to the pieces that will be played all in the attempt to di vine some connections that will help the audience. “My goal is to help people enjoy something on a higher level than Music school hosting two-week celebration The School of Music’s Festival of the Millennium, a celebration of contem porary music from the 20th century, begins today. More than a dozen mu sical events are scheduled for the two week celebration. Aside from the Ysaye Quartet, the upcoming week’s highlights include: Today, 8 p.m.—Trio Pacifica. Faculty Artist Series recital, featuring violinist Kathryn Lucktenberg, cellist Steven Pologe and pianist Victor Steinhardt. Beall Concert Flail. $7 general admis sion, $4 students and seniors. Friday, 8 p.m.—Oregon Wind Ensem ble. University ensemble, under di redion of Robert Ponto. Beall Concert Hall. $5 general admission, $3 stu dents and seniors. Saturday, 8 p.m.—Future Music Ore gon. Music Technology Program, fea turing guest composer Chris Chafe from Stanford University. Music build ing, room 198. $5 general admission, $3 students and seniors. Sunday, begins at 2 p.m.—All-Day Music Marathon. New music by local artists. Beall Concert Hall. $3 for all day admission. Monday, 8 p.m. —“20th Century Women Composers: A Retrospective in Song.” Faculty Artist Series recital, featuring singer Ann Tedardsand pi anist Greg Mason. Beall Concert Hall. $7 general admission, $4 students and seniors. * Wednesday, 8 p.m.—Art Maddox and Joan Benson. Guest keyboard artists. Beall Concert Hall. $7 general admission, $4 students and seniors. they would if they didn’t come to the lecture,” Hurwitz said. The quartet’s University per formance will be joined by a pi anist and a solo violinist. These musicians will play the first piece together and join the quartet for (( There has to be a feeling between the per formers. Because there is no conductor imposing the dynamics of the music, it has to be worked out by the musicians. It’s the classical equivalent of a jazz jam. Janet Stewart assistant dean of the music school the final piece. The second piece will be played by the quartet alone. They will play a Debussy vi olin sonata, Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major and Chausson’s Concer to for Piano, Violin and String Quartet. All three pieces are from French composers around the end of the 19th century. Stewart said French chamber music is a rare treat because the style is largely dominated by the Germanic music tradition. “The French music isn’t driven by form as much as it is driven by color,” Stewart said. Hurwitz has a particular affec tion for every type of chamber mu sic, regardless of its origins, he said. “There is a kind of spiritual quality in chamber music that isn’t present in other music,” Hurwitz said. “Something about such small groups striving to reach some huge goal is more emotional.” The intimacy of chamber music allows for new interpretations of the pieces to emerge, Hurwitz said. “What if I saw four different per formances of Hamlet? Each one will say ‘to be or not to be,’ but in some different way that might make me understand it different ly,” he said. Hurwitz made the point that au diences should come trying to un derstand the music rather than just listening. Celeste Leger. a student intern for the music school, hopes that other students will be open minded enough to come. “A lot of people our age are in timidated by classical music be cause the tradition is so old,” Leg er said. The concert will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Beall Concert Hall. 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