[ad_1] On March 28, 1949, at Times Hall, in midtown Manhattan, an unexpectedly large crowd materialized to hear the Juilliard Quartet play the second part of a two-concert survey of the six string quartets of Béla Bartók. According to the Times, so many seats were crammed onstage that the quartet “had just enough elbow room,… Continue reading The Escher Quartet and Igor Levit Test Musical Limits