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30th Anniversary Celebrations Continue
A relatively smooth week at SFSU recovering from the big festive concert weekend. Sunday took us back to Sonoma for a lovely Haydn/Beethoven/Schubert program. It was like “old home week” in the midst of so much wonderful new music. Jake Heggie’s stunningly beautiful “Into the Fire” for the ASQ’s 30th anniversary with the wondrous Joyce…
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Preparing for Dvořák
Dvořák’s Terzetto provides a rare opportunity for the cello to sit out and listen to the upper three members of the ASQ amuse and delight the listener without me, the cellist, “ruddering” the piece. My colleagues try to get together early before we start our regular quartet rehearsal to get some work done without my…
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Singing Together With Schubert
I wrote to Jake Heggie just last week lamenting that instead of cramming in more preparation for the fast upcoming premiere of his wonderful new composition for for the ASQ’s 30th Anniversary, “Into The Fire,” the Quartet was finding itself practically blindsided in preparing a bunch of obscure early Schubert quartets instead. Jake wasn’t surprised…
