The Quartet arrived in Canton, NY on Sunday night after a long journey from SF with stops in Newark and Syracuse, culminating in a two and a half hour drive to our destination. We checked into our B&B accommodations, which are really lovely. On Monday we spent the day at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, NY working with a number of that schools excellent string students in master classes, and performing an evening concert that included Kodaly’s Second String Quartet and Beethoven’s imposing Op.127. The response was very warm and gratifying.
Yesterday, 9/25 (salute to Dmitri Shostakovich’s 106th birthday!) we began our activities at St. Lawrence University. It’s always like coming home when we are here, as we made the first visit here in 1984! (We were, of course, VERY young then).
In addition to those two works, we’ll be performing Mozart’s Quartet in F, K.590 and Beethoven’s Quartet Op.130 with the Grosse Fuge at 8pm in Gulick Theater on the St. Lawrence campus.