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This superb volume of historic chamber music performance continues the DOREMI series Live at the Library of Congress and is the fifth volume. These historic performances featuring the legendary Juilliard String Quartet were recorded live at the Library of Congress from 1963 to 1967. The makeup of the quartet is slightly different between the recordings: Earl Carlyss is the second violin on the String Quartet performances, and Isidore Cohn in the Quintet. These historic recordings continue a series of releases of memorable performances given by the Juilliard Quartet at the Library of Congress, which began in 1948. These recordings preserve Leonard Bernstein?s only appearance with the Juilliard Quartet as a chamber pianist. The Quintet was recorded live on April 19, 1963. The String Quartets were recorded respectively on October 21, 1966; December 19, 1966; and March 31, 1967. The Juilliard String Quartet began in 1946 and were appointed Quartet in Residence by the Juilliard School?s president, William Schuman. For over fifty years, the Juilliard String Quartet has been an international presence and an American institution. It performs with emotional intensity, technical precision, and intellectual rigor in concerts given across the globe, while in the United States its members have been educators, mentors, and champions of new music. Over the course of its fifty-year history, the quartet has premiered over sixty new works by American composers. Since 1962 the Juilliard Quartet has been quartet-in-residence at the Library of Congress, where in 1997 it inaugurated the renovated Coolidge Auditorium. The Juilliard Quartet is also quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard School in New York, where all four members are on the faculty. For almost seven decades, the Music Division of the Library of Congress has presented an extraordinary series of chamber music concerts that have literally made music history, setting international standards for performance, composition, and broadcasting. The genesis of these concerts is found in the generous philanthropy of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and Mrs. Gertrude Clarke Whittall. The Library?s broadcast series is the nation?s oldest, and the first of its kind to be heard nationwide; commissions from Music Division foundations have become standards of the international concert repertoire.