Guarneri and Cleveland Quartets, 50 Years of String Quartet Humor and History

00:00 How the Guarneri Quartet Began
02:30 Steinhardt: Marlboro and Loving Chamber Music
04:47 Guarneri Quartet Origin Story
06:00 Chamber Music Training 70 years Ago
08:17 Steinhardt: Marlboro Mentors
11:32 Guarneri Quartet Breakthrough
13:25 Cleveland Quartet’s First Performance gets Manager
15:25 Steinhardt: Recording with Arthur Rubinstein
18:34 Steinhardt: Arthur Rubinstein Stories
20:17 Rubinstein’s Lessons on Interpretation
21:34 Don Weilerstein Stories
28:50 Weilerstein in Magician’s Tails
31:46 Steinhardt: Growing Up in Los Angeles
32:53 Steinhardt Meets Igor Stravinsky
35:10 Heifetz, Primrose, and Piatigorsky
39:49 Performance Practices Change
41:50 Authenticity in Performance
43:23 Steinhardt’s Beethoven Séance Story
44:21 Katz’s Janáček Coaching Story
48:01 Working with Living Composers
51:04 Schubert, Mortality, and Music
54:28 Favorite Guarneri Repertoire
56:55 Steinhardt’s Musical Imagination
1:02:44 Aging and Performance
1:07:32 Steinhardt’s Advice to Young Quartets
1:09:07 No Bowings, No Fingerings
1:12:20 Steinhardt on John Dalley
1:16:48 Steinhardt on Michael Tree
1:22:13 Steinhardt on David Soyer
1:23:22 Guarneri vs. Cleveland Rehearsal Styles
1:28:30 Guarneri Rule: Never Compliment
1:31:54 Katz: “Learn How to Eat”
1:32:23 The Chamber Music Explosion
1:33:36 Guarneri Quartet Economics
1:37:30 The Budapest Quartet’s Influence
1:40:14 Katz Hears Budapest with Piatigorsky
1:41:26 Steinhardt Visits Mischa Schneider
1:44:24 Steinhardt: Violin Technique and Szigeti
1:45:55 Steinhardt’s Greatest Violin Influences
1:47:12 Closing Reflections