Recommended for Music Education and Music Appreciation: Senior High and Adult Audiences Making Music:
The Emerson String Quartet is a film which provides a close
look, through conversation and performance, at the personal and
musical qualities that must combine to make an ensemble of excellence.
Shot during a performance week one summer on Martha's Vineyard,
the film gives a sense of involvement with the four articulate young
men who are the Emerson String Quartet, while helping to illuminate chamber music
for students and general viewers alike. In this film, we see and hear
the Emerson String Quartet perform fragments from their exceptionally varied repertoire,
including Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert. The final sequence of Making
Music shows how the Quartet plans, rehearses and performs the last
movement of the Ravel Quartet.
This film also tell us
that three of the Emerson String Quartet were born to musical families, while the
talent of one of the musicians, Lawrence Dutton of Wantagh, New
York, was discovered through his third grade introduction to an
instrument, a talent then fostered and encouraged by his school
music teacher. "Making Music should be of interest to chamber music lovers, to music students, to anyone who is fascinated by the dynamic of four persons of great individuality working successfully toward a common goal." -Lawrence Lesser, President New England Conservatory of Music Making Music: The Emerson String
Quartet 28 minutes, color $49.95
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