Costanza and Hersh Recitals Also Announced

Back from a successful New York debut, the Chicago String Quartet, in residence at DePaul University, will perform a concert on March 30 featuring Leos Janacek's Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters," Mozart's Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421, and Beethoven's Quartet Opus No.135. The performance, the third of a four-concert series at the university, will begin at 8 p.m. at the DePaul Concert Hall, 800 W. Belden Ave.

The quartet -- first violinist Joseph Genualdi, second violinist Stefan Hersh, violist Rami Solomonow and cellist Christopher Costanza -- attracted an enthusiastic, near sell out crowd of more than 800 when they debuted in New York on Jan. 17 at the famed 92nd Street "Y." "The concert has launched the quartet as a world-class group," said DePaul School of Music Dean Donald Casey.

Admission to the quartet's March 30 concert is $25 per person. Student and senior discounts are available. Subscription tickets are available for this performance and the remaining concert in the series on June 1. Proceeds benefit the Scholarship Fund at the DePaul School of Music, where all four quartet members are full-time professors of string music. For concert tickets, call Orchestra Hall at 312/922-1999.

Two members of the quartet also will present free public recitals in March and April.

Costanza and pianist Paul Orgel will perform an all-Beethoven program on March 19 at 8 p.m. in the DePaul Concert Hall. The duo will perform Sonata in F major, Opus 5, No. 1; Sonata in C major, Opus 102, No. 1, Sonata in D major, Opus 102, No. 2 and "Magic Flute" variations.

On April 7 at 8 p.m. at the DePaul Concert Hall, a recital will be held featuring Stefan Hersh on violin with his father, Paul Hersh, on piano. Brahms' Sonata No. 2 in A major, Opus 100, and Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Opus 108, and Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor for solo violin and Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin will be performed.

For more information about the recitals, call DePaul's School of Music at 773/ 325-7260.