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Infamously Difficult
If there were musical Olympics and it was 1980, the Juilliard String Quartet would be the East German athletic team. Last night they showed off by playing Hayden's infamously difficult Quartet in D Major, which is all sarcastic jokes and inversions, and Dvorak's No. 11 in C Major, which is equally complicated, and in between they exemplified perfection with Bartok's Number 5 which is so technically difficult that Bartok got fed up because he couldn't find anyone who could play it. I was transported by it and went into a sort of trance, spinning around with the atoms and the stars and the universe. It was like an out of body experience and literally amazing. The funny thing is, the rest of the audience didn't like it; they were pretty unresponsive and the people on either side of me actually said they hated it and wished it had been shorter.
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