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Back on Nantucket Island!
What a joy to be back to play for the Nantucket Musical Art Society, where we have appeared in seasons past, but not for many years. The beautiful, unique ambiance of this historic place, not to mention the unbelievable beaches, definitely explains why people flock here in the Summer time. I have been reminded of…
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Review for Paul Yarbrough and Old First Concerts
Examiner.com‘s Stephen Smoliar reviews Paul Yarbrough’s recent Basically British Old First Concert: “Through the interplay of Scharich’s mezzo voice and Yarbrough’s viola, one could readily appreciate how expressive Brahms could be when working in the lower register. … As had been the case last October, the performers made for a highly satisfying trio, which deserves…
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Paul Yarbrough Performs “Basically British XIV”!
Old First Concerts Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8pm Old First Church, 1751 Sacramento Street (at Vanes), San Francisco Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano; Paul Yarbrough, viola; John Parr, piano Basically British XIV This program continues the Basically British series, which John Parr presented at Old First Concerts from 2003 through 2011. The aim was to explore…
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A Decade of Romance With Schubert’s G Major Quartet
This past Saturday morning the ASQ performed Schubert’s Quartet in G Major, D. 887, Op. posth. 161 (1826) in the Herbst Theater as the penultimate work in our traversal of that amazing composer’s work for the string quartet. This particular quartet has enormous meaning to us as a group and to me personally. When we…
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Paul on the Schubert Series
The Saturday morning series at the Herbst with our main man, Bob Greenberg, this year has turned to the amazing quartets (and one quintet) of Franz Schubert. Each year has its specific focus composer or multi-composer premise. Greenberg talks, we play. It starts at 10 am on Saturday mornings in the winter and early spring.…
