Amidst all the talk about blues singers, jazz artists, and Koussevitzky lovers, the concert to be given November 10 by the Budapest String Quartet has been almost ignored. This is a great pity, for no instrumental organization in this country quite compares with the Budapest in consistent quality of execution.

This will be the only Boston appearance of the quartet this year, but such an announcement should not frighten the audience away. The average group which appears once in Boston allows all the slovenly playing it suppresses elsewhere to come out, realizing that the majority of its audience will not know any better. But this concert is to be sponsored by the Pierian Sodality, and therefore an audience of some artistic susceptibility may be present.

The program is about as good as can be expected, with the first Boston performance of Prokofieff's new string quartet as the featured piece. An early Beethoven, the opus 18, No. 3, will open the afternoon, and a somewhat grim note will be struck by the Brahms A Minor quartet at the conclusion.

Budapest's secret lies in the magnificence of its 'cellist, Mischa Schneider. Neither Roismann nor Ortenberg, the two violinists, are the equal of others playing their instruments in other quartets, while Kroyt, on the viola, is not a Sander Roth. Through Schneider's excellence and intelligent rehearsal however, they achieve by far the best all over performances you are likely to hear. At Pierian's plebian prices, it is distinctly worth your while.