Claremont Quartet to Perform Tonight in First of Series

The Claremont Quartet, a leading chamber music group, will open its five-concert series at the University with a performance tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. The group will present three Beethoven string quartets each time.

Tonight's program will include Quartet in El major, Opus 18, No. 1; Quartet in El minor, Opus 59, No. 2; and Quartet in A minor, Opus 132. Single tickets are $1; a series of five goes for $4.25.

The quartet was highly praised after a concert in New York City last year by the Times, which called its performances "extraordinary" and its tone "ravishing, homogeneous."

Since its beginning in 1954, the group has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. The members are Marc Gottlieb, violin; Vladmir Weissman, violin; William Soheon, viola; and Irving Klein, cello.