Middlebury College
Performing Arts Series 2001-2002
These images document the Takács Quartet's week-long Middlebury
residency in January 2002.
The Takács Quartet, reads and records a string quartet composed by Middlebury student Jessica DellaPepa
'03,
under the direction of professor Su Lian Tan
Associate Provost Roman Graf, of the Office of Institutional Diversity, leads a lecture/demonstration entitled
"LISTEN, NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO SMILE THAT WAY AT ANYONE!", with the Takács Quartet.
This lec/dem explored artistic and erotic tensions in the versions of "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann
and Benjamin Britten.
Both, Mann's short novel and Britten's String Quartet No. 3, with its quotes from his opera 'Death in Venice' reveal
the struggle within
the artist between the physical and the spiritual, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, heteronormativity and homosexuality,
life and death.
The Takács Quartet closed the lecture by performing the entire last movement from Britten's String Quartet
No. 3.
The Quartet also worked with Middlebury College students in Professor Stacy Moore's
MU046 Class, "Art of the Soiree".
The Takács Quartet presented an educational recital for a group of music students from the Rochester, VT
area.
This visit was organized under the direction of alumni, and violinist, Devin Arrington.
At a young student's request, the Quartet performs a somber excerpt in a "happy" tone!
We thank these very articulate young musicians for travelling over the Middlebury Gap
to visit the Takács Quartet and Center for the Arts!
Takács Quartet members Ed Dusinberre & Károly Schranz.
Takács Quartet members András Fejer & Roger Tapping.
For more information on upcoming Performing Arts Series events and related
residency activities, please review our Arts Newsletter.