[Times photo: Bob Croslin]

I just caught wind of this article today via an email digest that I subscribe to.  A violinist friend who I went to grad school with (and played in the Chesapeake String Quartet with) is their new concertmaster.  Jeff is a great violinist and a great guy, so it’s nice to see that he’s thriving in Florida (he succeeded Amy Schwartz Moretti after she left Florida for the OSO).  You can read the entire article here.

The feedback from the recital has been coming in over the past day or so, and the response has been very gratifying, indeed.  I was alerted to a review on the blog of James Bash, a local writer who does a lot of arts coverage for the Willamette Week.  It was nice to find out that he was at the concert, though I’m glad that I didn’t know it before now!  You can find the review here.

A note of clarification: the CMC’s funding is not being completely cut by the city, but the cuts are significant.