2012 01/07/2012
Happy New Year to all. It's been a long time since I posted, no excuses, I've just been busy and finding it hard to find time to sit at the computer. One of the highlights of the festive season was a wonderful concert with Oakfield Choir at Christchurch in Frome, our quartet joined forces with the Stringbeans and a few friends to make a small chamber orchestra conducted by Paul Dowbekin, the very Christmassy programme included Gerald Finzi's In Terra Pax which I hadn't heard before and really enjoyed. Looking forward to some great music-making in Add Comment Concert at St Vigor's Stratton-on-the-Fosse 06/28/2011
We're delighted to be performing this Saturday at St Vigor's Church at Stratton-on-the-Fosse. The concert starts at 7.30pm and is part of St Vigor's Flower Festival. Our programme will include classical favourites: Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mozart's Divertimento in F, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 3; great arrangements of songs by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Leonard Bernstein and The Beatles and Arvo Pärt's gentle, contemplative Summa. Tickets are £5 available on the door or in advance from Seona - 01749 850487. Do join us for a night of excellent entertainment in the intimate surroundings of this 12th Century church. Welcome to the 21st Century 02/28/2011
Just to let you know we can now accept payment by online bank transfer! Please check your contract or email me for bank details. Whatever next? Gaga, Madonna... New Repertoire on the way 02/15/2011
We've been asked to add a few new pieces to our Repertoire List. Here's advance notice that in the next couple of months we'll have these pretty exciting tunes available:
Happy New Year 01/28/2011
Happy New Year to all our friends and supporters. We had a fantastic 2010 and already have plenty of dates in the diary for 2011, hopefully including a series of concerts in the summer. Come and see us tomorrow and Sunday at the Spread Eagle Inn Wedding Fair at Stourhead (29th & 30th January). It's a great event in a wonderful setting. New search feature on Repertoire Page 10/12/2010
I'm gradually exploring my wonderful web design service and just found a rather superior way to deliver our Repertoire page. Oh Joy! New features include a search facility, a range of different views, print, fullscreen and I've compacted the whole file so that you can download as a spreadsheet for a mere 36kb. Sweet and delightful. Off to Babington on Thursday with our rockiest, edgiest repertoire - my bow is shedding hair like crazy (it's the Led Zeppelin) so it's going to Michaela Wedermeyer this afternoon for a rehair. Longleat & Charlton House 10/08/2010
Last Saturday we played at Longleat in the glorious, enormous orangery with it's fantastic acoustic, on Sunday (10/10/10) we'll be at Charlton House playing in the Orangery there for the first time. Our Vivaldi is super hot at the moment, Spring is a firm favourite, and a newly discovered arrangement of the Theme from Pride and Prejudice is going down a storm. Tangos in Witham 08/30/2010
Bank Holiday Monday and the musicians never rest so come and join us at Witham Friary Summer Fair for Tangos with Seona Chapman (violin) and Pete Rosser (accordion) and the fabulous Frome Street Band from 2pm Monday 30th August. Mendelssohn OCTET 07/30/2010
It's pretty rare to find two whole string quartets in your back garden at the same time. Lucky Cressida Nash is 50 tomorrow and we are descending in her honour to play the Mendelssohn Octet, it's a fantastic piece and a great honour and a privilege to play for her. She's on 2nd cello by the way. Also looking forward to a little ceilidh gig with our barndance band Hares on the Mountain tomorrow at Horningsham Village Hall. Mells Church and the Talbot 05/10/2010
A great gig this weekend at Mells Church, what a fantastic space, followed by drinks reception at the Talbot pub next door. Thanks Mark and Kate for making us so welcome and of course Mrs Inch at the Church, what a treasure. I'm still looking for a new violin, I've tried about fifty violins since I started looking, but haven't quite found the one that goes PING. I've just spent the week with a Joseph Hel which was utterly enormous, a massive sound, the complete opposite of my old English viola. It felt a bit like arriving at a party with a slightly hysterical friend, and working very hard to keep her under control all night. Probably just more of an orchestral instrument. Found this gem: http://www.violinist.com/discussion/response.cfm?ID=12923 "Posted on February 28, 2010 at 01:11 AM My violin teacher in the late 1950s, Laurence Turner, had a Strad as his main instrument but he also had a Joseph Hel which he used as leader of the Halle Orchestra under Barbirolli. Laurence said that in some ways he preferred his Hel. I now know what he means as the typical Hel sound is very clear, projects well, is untemperemental, and can be easier to play as it speaks instantly and can be therefore more efficiently monitored." So here I am, still playing my little ancient Italian, found at an auction many years ago, and the good news is it's sounding better and better. I even used it for band practice on Friday... Tumbleweed Jim - our next gig is for Acoustic Plus at the Cheese and Grain, Frome on May 21st... Anything could happen. | Latest News from...
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