For Them, Time Ran Out

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The performances by the Hawthorne String Quartet and other New England-based musicians are brisk and idiomatic. But such considerations are almost irrelevant in light of the music's larger issues. "If we consider the demands of the programs, together with the strains on the artists who live in new surroundings under unpleasant conditions," wrote Klein, "we will understand that these artistic efforts are not solely to be judged by the standards of a % metropolitan critic." History is now the judge.