Experience the Unique Czech Quartet Tradition with the Prazák Quartet Feb. 25 by Marci Janas '91
	RELATED About the Prazák Quartet		The Prazák Quartet - one of today´s leading international chamber music ensembles - presents a program featuring the works of Beethoven, Janacek, and Schubert on Tuesday, February 25, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel. Tickets are $7 for students, $16 for those with an Oberlin college I.D., educators, and senior citizens, and $20 for the general public. All seats are reserved. Tickets sold at the door are an additional $2. Please call Oberlin's Central Ticket Service to order: 440.775.8169. Acclaimed throughout the world for its technical mastery and expressive lyricism, the ensemble appears under the auspices of Oberlin's Artist Recital Series with the support of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Friends of the Artist Recital Series. Media sponsorship is provided by WCLV 104.9 FM and WCPN 90.3 FM. The Prazák Quartet was established in 1972 while its members were students at the Prague Conservatory. Since then, the quartet has gained attention for its place in the unique Czech quartet tradition, and its musical virtuosity. The Strad evokes the sensuous in its praise: "A warmth that recalled the proximity of coffee house and concert hall in the old Austro-Hungarian empire." Gramophone admires the ensemble's "excellent sense of rhythm and meticulous attention to dynamics . . . allied to a high level of musical understanding," and writes that the quartet is "especially convincing. . . .beautifully poised . . . splendid."
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