October 6, 1994: Vol26n5: Muir Quartet to perform Slee/Beethoven Cycle

The 1994-95 Slee/Beethoven Cycle will open Friday with a performance
by the Muir String Quartet, a group acknowledged as one of the worldUs
most powerful and insightful ensembles.
	The concert, to be held at 8 p.m. Oct. 7 in Slee Concert Hall
on the UB North Campus, will feature the Quartets Op. 127; Op. 18, no.
1; and Op. 59, no. 3.
	Again this year, the Muir String Quartet will present the
entire Slee/Beethoven Cycle, which is sponsored by the UB Department
of Music.
	The quartet, which appears in major chamber music concerts
throughout North America, includes Peter Zazofsky, violin; Bayla
Keyes, violin; Steven Ansel, viola; and Michael Reynolds, cello.
Critically acclaimed for their  performances of three complete
Beethoven String Quartet cycles in Boston and Providence, as well as
last year at UB, the Muir is the only quartet in 20 years since the
Cleveland and the Budapest to be invited for back-to-back performances
of the complete Beethoven Slee series.
	Winners of the 1981 Naumberg Chamber Music Award and the 1980
Evian International String Quartet Competition, the Muir Quartet first
appeared in 1980, when one of their performances was greeted with rave
reviews and a feature in The New Yorker. The quartet, named for the
founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir, also was featured on the PBS
broadcast, In Performance at the White Ho$8, $5 and $4. For more
information, call 645-2921.
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	Tickets for the concert are $10,