Griller Quartet Goes West
URING recent months the Griller String Quartet, which is rated one of the best chamber music ensembles in the world, has been touring America, and a few weeks ago-they signed a contract with the University of California to become "quartet in residence" there (for three years) to assist chamber music students. This decision will be as much of a loss to Britain as it is a gain to America. The Griller Quartet has done a lot for British chamber music by ensuring that new works would get immediate, first-rate performance, and New Zealand radio listeners will be familiar with the Griller recordings of Bax’s Quartet in G and Bliss’s Clarinet Quintet and Quartet in B Flat. The group was formed in 1929 when its four members -Sidney Griller, Jack O’Brien, Philip Burton, and Colin Hampton-were still students at the Royal Academy. They decided that to attain perfection they should live together, break all family ties, and refuse engagements to play separately, and they have kept their resolve for 20 years. No other major quartet has remained intact so long.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 9
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183Griller Quartet Goes West New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 9
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