For those of you who come early to quartet concerts (why an hour early, people?) and end up watching the ensemble doing some last minute touch ups but not really knowing what’s going on, I posted a 4 minute recording of our pre-concert soundcheck/rehearsal for the opening of Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet at the Salem
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I added an audio example to the Mendelssohn A minor Quartet op. 13 post of a few days ago, as well as a sheet music page of the op. 9 song upon which the op. 13 introduction is based. Good stuff! Mendelssohn and Schumann: String Quartets
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I got back a couple hours ago from working on the great op. 13 quartet of the young Felix Mendelssohn, and it never fails to amaze me how great a composer he is without often falling into the Germanic need for angst and suffering in his art. One of my favorite parts of the quartet
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Normally, the life of a professional symphonic musician is fairly low-key and predictable. You know what you’re going to be playing and when it’s going to be played a year ahead of time. You get your parts several weeks in advance and you judge when you’re going to start practicing them and how much time
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Itzhak Perlman, Gabriela Montero, Yo-Yo Ma and Anthony McGill (not pictured) at Obama’s Inauguration Tuesday (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg). There’s been a big to-do on every available media outlet about the bow/finger synching by the all-star classical quartet that performed at Obama’s inauguration this week. True, it would have been ideal if violinist Itzhak Perlman,
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Over the weekend I had a wonderful musical experience. I was asked to take part in a musical memorial and holiday celebration on behalf of a long time Grants Pass resident. Her daughter, Paula, arranged the entire event and played violin with us. Grants Pass is a wonderful town in the southern part of Oregon,
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