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It's been years since Routa Kroumovitch first sat in a concert by the Juilliard String Quartet, but she remembers her initial reaction well.
They were very, very well prepared, and very, very good," said the Latvian native, a violin professor at Stetson University's School of Music and a noted performer.
That's not all that springs to mind when Kroumovitch considers the group's Thursday concert, presented by Central Florida Cultural Endeavors, which also brought the musicians to town on Feb. 4, 1978.
It is a very interesting program," she said. "The Bela Bartok quartet in particular will be a challenge -- it's dissonant, but not the most dissonant. And it's very beautiful."
Besides Bartok's Quartet No. 5, the venerable New York ensemble will perform Felix Mendelssohn's Andante and Scherzo, Op. 81, and Franz Schubert's Quartet in D minor, "Death and the Maiden." Such challenges are second nature to the Juilliard quartet, which played the American premiere of the Bartok cycles in 1948...
